Events

*Mobster Antonino Morddelo "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo becomes head enforcer for

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's " Chicago Outfit". * Danny Stanton, a former member of the Valley and Sheldon Gangs, assumes control as interim leader of arch rivals Saltis- McErlane organization. *January 8 –

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leader Pasquale Lolordo is killed in his Chicago apartment, supposedly by mobster

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and members of the North Side Gang. *January 12 – Labor racketeer

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died in a hospital in Chicago after an operation for gallstones. *February 14 – Four unidentified men, two of them dressed as Chicago police officers, storm into a Chicago garage and murder seven members of the North Side Gang, (among them

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Rheinhart Schwimmer and mechanic John May). Their primary target, gang leader George "Bugs" Moran, is not there. However, the

St. Valentines Day Massacre The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago garage on the morning of February 14 ...

effectively ends the five-year gang war between The Chicago Outfit and the North Side Gang. *March 19 – William J. Vercoe, a colorful Chicago criminal noted for reciting poetry, is shot and killed by Westside O'Donnell gang member William Clifford while at the '' Pony Inn'' in Cicero, Illinois. *April 14 – William Clifford is gunned down along with former Westside O'Donnall's gang gunman Michael Reiley. *May 7 – Chicago Outfit hitmen

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and John Scalise, two of the men suspected in the murder of North Side Gang leader

Dean O'Banion Charles Dean O'Banion (July 8, 1892 – November 10, 1924) was an American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. The newspapers of his day made him better known a ...

and fellow mob boss Joseph "Hop Toad" Giunta, the current Unione Siculiana President are all killed during a lavish party held at Al Capone's residence. The party was a ruse by mob boss

to lure the three men to their deaths after their plan to gain leadership of the Chicago Outfit by eliminating Capone is uncovered. The men where beaten to death by Capone, who used a baseball bat to commit the murders. *May 9 – Prominent New York mob associate Meyer Lansky marries Anna Citron. *May 13–15 – The Atlantic City Conference is held in

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by American

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and

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organized crime leaders. This conference would later result in the formation of the National Crime Syndicate of all Italian-American gangs. *May 16 – Shortly after leaving the

meeting, Chicago mob boss

is arrested by Philadelphia police and charged with carrying a concealed weapon. *May 16 – Bootlegger Joe Porrazo "Disappears" after alleged confrontation with organized Crime Figures *May 29 – Thomas McElligot, a member of the Westside O'Donnell's gang, is killed in a

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saloon in Chicago. *June 11 – Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro, a

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mafia leader, the #2 man or underboss in the Porrello crime family is shot and killed while approaching a parked car. Todaro's murder was a revenge killing for plotting with the Porrello family to betray and kill his former boss Joe Lonardo and take over the crime family in late 1927. *June 24 – Broadway based mobster Gandolfo Curto, better known as "Frankie Marlow" was found murdered in Queens after a night of dining in Manhattan. Frankie Marlow was a former associate of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale. Among other things, Marlow ran a bookmaking operation under Yale's protection and was also a bootlegger, nightclub owner and boxing manager. *July 2 – Benjamin Evangelista, a religious leader and real estate tycoon, is killed with his wife and four children. It is believed that the killings are related to possible dealings with organized crime. *August 6 – Pittsburgh mobster Steve Monastero is shot to death at the entrance of

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. Following Monastero's death, he would be succeeded by Joseph Siragusa. *August 17 –

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, a prominent Florida bootlegger, who was sentenced to hang the previous year by US District Court Judge

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for the

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...

murders of a US Secret Service agent and two US Coast Guard crew members during an arrest at sea, goes to the gallows. Despite appeals to the US Supreme Court and President Herbert Hoover, Alderman is hanged on a Coast Guard base near

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. *September 4 – Westside O'Donnell gang member Frank Cawley is killed. *November 17 – John "Bilikens" Rito, a former bootlegger for the Chicago Genna brothers, is killed shortly after forming a partnership with North Side Gang member Ted Newberry. *November 29 – Los Angeles Vintner Frank Baumgarteker "Disappears" after alleged confrontation with organized Crime Figures *December 29 – Chicago bootlegger James Walsh is killed by

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after a prize fight. *December 30 –

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, the Harlem, New York numbers game queen, is arrested by New York City police. She would later be sentenced to eight months in prison.

Arts and literature

*''Little Caesar'' (novel) by

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Births

Donald Angelini Donald Angelini (September 30, 1926 – December 6, 2000) was a mobster nicknamed "The Wizard of Odds" with the Chicago Outfit, a criminal organization that specialized in gambling operations. Career After years in the Outfit, Angelini became t ...

(Don Angel) "The Wizard of Odds", Syndicate gambling racketeer *

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, Chinese-American author and playwright *

Louis Manna Louis Anthony "Bobby" Manna (born December 2, 1929, in Hoboken, New Jersey), is an American mobster and former consigliere of the Genovese crime family operating with the family's New Jersey faction. Genovese family Manna was a close associate ...

"Bobby", Genovese crime family Capo involved in the New Jersey construction industry, illegal gambling and loansharking * Frank A. Pugliano "Frankie Pugs",

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associate and West Springfield gambling club owner * Joseph Ullo, New York mobster and suspected ".22 caliber" hitman *January 1 –

Joseph Lombardo Joseph Patrick Lombardo (born Giuseppe Lombardi; January 1, 1929 – October 19, 2019), also known as "Joey the Clown", was an American mobster and a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit crime organization. He was alleged to be the ''Consi ...

"The Clown", Chicago Outfit leader *April 7 – Joe Gallo (Joseph Gallo),

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Mafia leader *April 9 –

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, Mexican Mafia Boss *March 8 –

Nicky Scarfo Nicodemo Domenico "Little Nicky" Scarfo Sr. (March 8, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was a member of the American Mafia who became the boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the deaths of Angelo Bruno and Phil Testa. During his criminal ca ...

(Nicodemo Scarfo) "Little Nicky", Philadelphia and

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Mafia Don *July 27 –

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, Los Angeles crime family underboss *August 9 – Albert Caesar Tocco, Chicago Outfit member involved in extortion and racketeering in Chicago's South Suburbs

Deaths

*January –

, Florida bootlegger *January 8 – Pasquale Lolordo,

leader *March 15 – William J. Vercoe "Clown for the Hoodlums", Chicago criminal *February 14 – James Clark, North Side Gang member involved in bootlegging, bank robbery and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *February 14 –

Frank Gusenberg Frank Gusenberg (October 11, 1893 – February 14, 1929) was an American contract killer and a victim of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago, Illinois. Early life Born in Lakeview, Chicago, Gusenberg was the second oldest of thr ...

, North Side Gang gunman and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *February 14 –

Peter Gusenberg Peter Gusenberg a.k.a. "''Goosey''" (September 22, 1888 – February 14, 1929) and his brother Frank were German-American contract killers and members of Chicago's North Side Gang, the main rival to the Chicago Outfit. Peter Gusenberg parti ...

, North Side Gang gunman and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *February 14 – Adam Hyer, North Side Gang member, owner of the S-M-C Cartage Company garage and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *February 14 – John May, North Side Gang associate and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *February 14 – Rheinhart Schwimmer, North Side Gang associate and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *February 14 – Albert Weinshank, North Side Gang bookkeeper, speakeasy owner and victim of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre *April 14 – George Clifford, Westside O'Donnells member *May 7 –

, Chicago Outfit hitman and Scalise, and a fellow gangster named Joseph Giunta *May 16 – Joe Pozzaro, Bootlegger *May 29 – Thomas McElligot, Westside O'Donnell member *June 11 – Salvatore Todaro "Black Sam", Cleveland crime family leader *July 2 – Benjamin Evangelista, Illinois religious leader and real estate tycoon *August 6 – Steve Monastero, Pittsburgh crime family leader *September 4 – Frank Cawley, Westside O'Donnell member *November 17 – John Rito "Bilikens", bootlegger for the Genna Brothers and associate of Ted Newberry *December 29 – James Walsh, Chicago bootlegger

References

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