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EVENTS

Sicilian Mafia Don Vito Cascio Ferro is arrested by Benito Mussolini and imprisoned where he remains until his death in 1945 .

St. Louis gangster Frank Christian , an assosiate of the Green Ones , is killed by Cuckoos Gang members in the Submarine Bar .

Green Ones member Anthony Dattalo is killed during a gunfight with the Cuckoos Gang.

February 23 - Genna Brothers member Edward Baldelli is found in a ditch outside Chicago.

February 24 - Genna Brothers ally Vito Bascone , a Chicago West Side bootlegger, is killed in Stickney, Illinois .

April - Saltis-McErlane Gang members hijack a Sheldon Gang beer shipment.

May 21 - Mariano Deluca is killed after refusing to pay Extortion money to the Green Ones .

June 27 - St. Louis Bootlegger Harvey J. Dunn is killed by the Green Ones after refusing to surrender his Distillery .

August 21 - St. Louis gangster Joseph Schamora is killed by the Green Ones.

September 20 - Members of the North Side Gang including Hymie Weiss, Vincent Drucci , and the Gusenberg Brothers attempt to kill Al Capone in a drive by shooting at Capone's Cicero headquarters at the Hawthorne Hotel firing hundreds of rounds before driving off. Al Capone however is unharmed.

September 22 - Cuckoos Gang associate Joseph Corsiglio is killed by the Green Ones .

September 26 - Cuckoos Gang member Peter Webbe is killed by members of the Green Ones in St. Louis .

October 11 - While meeting with Chicago lawyer William W. O'Brian , North Side Gang leader Hymie Weiss is killed in an ambush outside Holy Name Cathedral with bodyguard Patrick Murray , as well as severely wounding North Side Gang members Benny Jacobs and Sam Pellar . With Hymie Weiss's death George Moran assumes leadership of the North Side Gang.

October 15 - Green Ones associate Kustandy Ajilonny is killed by members of the Cuckoos.

October 20 - A conference is arranged by John O'Berta and Joseph Saltis at the Hotel Sherman in an attempt to call for a ceasefire among Chicago's major bootleggers. With the establishment of Madison Avenue dividing the Chicago Outfit and the North Side Gang territories the two sides agree to peace.

December 30 - The ceasefire is broken when Sheldon Gang member Hillary Clements is killed by the Saltis-McErlane Gang.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

Herbert Asbury 's '' The Gangs Of New York '' is published.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Frank Christian , St. Louis gangster

Anthony Dattalo , Green Ones member

Paul Kelly ( Paolo Antonini Vaccarelli ), Five Points Gang leader

Jim O'Leary , Chicago gambling racketeer

February 23 - Edward Baldelli , Genna Brothers member

February 24 - Vito Bascone , Chicago bootlegger and Genna Brothers ally

March 28 - John Kelly , New York gambling leader

May 21 - Mariano Deluca , Green Ones associate

June 27 - Harvey J. Dunn , St. Louis Bootlegger

August 21 - Joseph Schamora , St. Louis gangster

September 22 - Joseph Corsiglio , Cuckoos Gang associate

September 26 - Peter Webbe , Cuckoos Gang member

October 11 - Patrick Murray , Hymie Weiss bodyguard

October 11 - Hymie Weiss , North Side Gang leader

October 15 - Kustandy Ajilonny , Green Ones associate