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EVENTS

Summer - New York Police break up the last of the Manhattan street gangs, including the Hudson Dusters , from The Battery to Spuyten Duyvil . Many of these former gang members would become employed as labor sluggers. Street gangs would become non-existent in New York until the release of "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan and Johnny Spanish the following year.

The Mafia-Camorra War begins in New York between the Manhatten Sicilian and Neoplitan Brooklyn Mafia.

Nicholas Morello , leader of the Morello Crime Family , is killed outside a Navy St. restaurant while arriving at peace negotiations with rival Don Pellegrino Morano .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

'' Poor Little Peppina '' (film) {Link without Title}

BIRTHS

April 1 - Gus Alex , Chicago Outfit member

DEATHS

Nicholas Morello , Morello Crime Family leader