Events

• John F. Castagna, a Hartford, Connecticut
  Hartford, Connecticut
  Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
  
  -based associate of the Patriarca crime family
  Patriarca crime family
  The Patriarca crime family, also known as the New England crime family and the Providence crime family, is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in New England, specifically Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, and is part of the Italian-American Mafia or "La Cosa Nostra"...
  
   associate, is convicted of manslaughter.
• February 13 - New York mobster and former leader of the Luciano crime family, Frank Costello
  Frank Costello
  Frank Costello was an Italian New York City gangster who rose to the top of America's underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States and enjoyed political influence.Nicknamed the "Prime Minister of the Underworld", he became one of the most powerful and influential Mafia...
  
   dies of a heart attack at a Manhattan hospital.
• April 14 - Chicago Outfit
  Chicago Outfit
  The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
  
   associate, loan shark
  Loan shark
  A loan shark is a person or body that offers unsecured loans at illegally high interest rates to individuals, often enforcing repayment by blackmail or threats of violence....
  
   and sadist
  Sadism and masochism as medical terms
  In psychiatry, the terms sadism and masochism describe a personality type characterized by the actor or actrix deriving pleasure and gratification from inflicting physical pain and humiliation ; and from suffering pain and humiliation upon the self ; such pleasure often is sexual, but not...
  
  ic murderer Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano
  Sam DeStefano
  Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano was an Italian-American gangster who became one of the Chicago Outfit's most notorious loan sharks and sociopathic killers. Chicago-based Federal Bureau of Investigation agents such as William F. Roemer, Jr., considered DeStefano to be the worst torture-murderer in the...
  
   was shotgun
  Shotgun
  A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...
  
  ned to death in his garage while out on bail
  Bail
  Traditionally, bail is some form of property deposited or pledged to a court to persuade it to release a suspect from jail, on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail...
  
  . His killer(s) have never been caught.
• May 22 - While drinking at Snoope's, a local Staten Island
  Staten Island
  Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
  
   bar and restaurant, Jimmy McBratney is shot and killed after fighting with three men claiming to be NYPD detectives (later revealed to be members of the Gambino crime family
  Gambino crime family
  The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
  
  ). McBratney's murder was most likely in connection to the December 1972 kidnapping of a Gambino crime family loanshark. One of the men, a 32 year old John Gotti
  John Gotti
  John Joseph Gotti, Jr was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti grew up in poverty. He and his brothers turned to a life of crime at an early age...
  
   and future leader of the Gambino family, was reportedly the gunman who killed McBratney.
• July 29 - Paul Rothenberg, owner of an illegal film-processing lab being extorted by the Gambino Family, is shot to death by Gambino associate Roy DeMeo
  Roy DeMeo
  Roy Albert DeMeo was a soldier in the Gambino crime family. He is infamous for heading the DeMeo crew, a gang suspected by the FBI of murdering at least 70 people between 1973 and 1983. The vast majority were disposed of so thoroughly that they were never found...
  
  . Rothenberg was murdered after his business was raided by police and he was pressured to cooperate by authorities.
• August 28 - Bonanno crime family
  Bonanno crime family
  The Bonanno crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
   boss Natale Evola
  Natale Evola
  Natale "Joe Diamond" Evola was a New York mobster who briefly became boss of the Bonanno crime family.Born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn to parents Filippo and Francesca, who was natives of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. He was the brother of Paul, Joseph and Anna...
  
   died of natural causes. He was replaced by Philip Rastelli
  Philip Rastelli
  Phillip "Rusty" Rastelli was a New York mobster and former boss of the Bonanno crime family.-Biography:...
  
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• October 25 - Lucchese crime family
  Lucchese crime family
  The Lucchese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The family originated in the early 1920s with Gaetano "Tommy" Reina serving as boss up until his murder...
  
   boss Carmine Tramunti
  Carmine Tramunti
  Carmine "Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti was a New York mobster who was the boss of the Lucchese crime family. Tramunti helped build the massive French Connection heroin smuggling ring.-Operating in Harlem:...
  
   was convicted on Federal perjury charges and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Carlo Gambino
  Carlo Gambino
  "Don" Carlo Gambino, was a Sicilian mafioso who became Boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of the American Mafia. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive...
  
  , who had come to dominate the New York commission, appointed caporegime Anthony Corallo
  Anthony Corallo
  Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo was a New York City mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.-Early life:...
  
   as Tramunti’s successor.
• December 20 - Disgraced former cop, Richard Cain
  Richard Cain
  Richard Cain was a notoriously corrupt Chicago police officer, made man in the Chicago Outfit and a close associate of Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Several conspiracy theorists have claimed that Cain was directly involved in the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F...
  
  , was shot to death in a Chicago sandwich shop. Cain, whose real name was Richard Scalzitti, at one time was both a Chicago cop and on the Chicago Outfit
  Chicago Outfit
  The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
  
   payroll, under boss Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana
  Sam Giancana
  Salvatore Giancana , better known as Sam Giancana, was a Sicilian-American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957-1966...
  
  . Allegedly, Cain also became an FBI informant in the 1960s, before he rejoined the ousted boss, Giancana, in Mexico. Cain has also been linked to CIA activity, and many conspiracy theorists believe that Cain played a major part in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
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• December 22 - Johnny Dioguardi, while nearing the completion of his five year sentence, is charged and convicted of stock fraud. Vincenzo "Vinny" Aloi
  Vincenzo Aloi
  Vincenzo "Vinny" Aloi is a New York City mobster involved in stock fraud who briefly served as the acting boss of the Colombo crime family.-Made man to acting boss:...
  
  , a leading figure in the Colombo crime family
  Colombo crime family
  The Colombo crime family is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
  , was also convicted.

Arts and literature

• The Don Is Dead
  The Don Is Dead
  -Plot:While the head of an organized crime family is in prison his underboss schemes to replace him by secretly provoking a savage war between two other crime families....
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069989/ starring Anthony Quinn
  Anthony Quinn
  Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
  
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• Mean Streets
  Mean Streets
  Mean Streets is a 1973 drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin. The film stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. It was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ starring Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
  
  , Harvey Keitel
  Harvey Keitel
  Harvey Keitel is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Jane Campion's The...
  
   and David Proval
  David Proval
  David Aaron Proval is an American actor, known for his roles as Tony DeVienazo in the Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets opposite Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel and as Richie Aprile on the HBO television series The Sopranos .-Biography:Proval was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Jewish heritage,...
  
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• The Outfit
  The Outfit (1973 film)
  The Outfit is a 1973 film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Richard Stark and features a character modeled on Parker, who was introduced in The Hunter.- Plot :Released from prison In...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071960/ starring Robert Duvall
  Robert Duvall
  Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
  
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• Serpico
  Serpico
  Serpico is a 1973 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers, after being pushed to the brink at first by their distrust and later by the threats and...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070666/ starring Al Pacino
  Al Pacino
  Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...
  
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• The Seven-Ups
  The Seven-Ups
  The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American film released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Roy Scheider as a renegade policeman who is the leader of The Seven-Ups, a police team who uses dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070672/ starring Roy Scheider
  Roy Scheider
  Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as police chief Martin C...
  
   and Tony Lo Bianco
  Tony Lo Bianco
  Tony Lo Bianco is an American actor in films and television.Lo Bianco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a taxi driver. He is known for his roles in the cult films The Honeymoon Killers, God Told Me To, and The French Connection...
  
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• The Sting
  The Sting
  The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss . The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Created by...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070735/ starring Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...
  
  , Robert Redford
  Robert Redford
  Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...
  
   and Robert Shaw
  Robert Shaw (actor)
  Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting , From Russia with Love , A Man for All Seasons , the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , Black Sunday , The Deep and Jaws , where he played the shark hunter Quint.-Early life...
  
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Deaths

• Michele Miranda
  Michele Miranda
  Michele "Big Mike" Miranda was a longtime member and eventual consigliere of the Genovese crime family and one of the most powerful New York gangsters in the 1950s and 1960s.-Early years:...
  
   "Mike", Genovese crime family
  Genovese crime family
  The Genovese crime family , is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...
  
  
• February 13 - Frank Costello
  Frank Costello
  Frank Costello was an Italian New York City gangster who rose to the top of America's underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States and enjoyed political influence.Nicknamed the "Prime Minister of the Underworld", he became one of the most powerful and influential Mafia...
  
   (Francesco Castiglia), New York mobster and leader of the Luciano crime family
• May 22 - Jimmy McBratney, New York criminal
• August 28 - Joe Diamond (Natale Evola
  Natale Evola
  Natale "Joe Diamond" Evola was a New York mobster who briefly became boss of the Bonanno crime family.Born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn to parents Filippo and Francesca, who was natives of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. He was the brother of Paul, Joseph and Anna...
  
  ), New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
  's "Bonanno Crime Family
  Bonanno crime family
  The Bonanno crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
  " leader and New York labor racketeer
• December 20 - Richard Cain
  Richard Cain
  Richard Cain was a notoriously corrupt Chicago police officer, made man in the Chicago Outfit and a close associate of Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Several conspiracy theorists have claimed that Cain was directly involved in the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F...
  
  , member of the Chicago Outfit and former Chicago police officer