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EVENTS

Al Capone serves a brief sentence on a concealed weapons charge.

Tony Accardo is made head Enforcer for Al Capone 's " Chicago Outfit ".

January - James Alderman , a prominent Florida bootlegger, is sentenced to hang by US District Court Judge Henry D. Clayton for the 1927 murders of a Secret Service agent and two Coast Guard crew members. Despite appeals to the US Supreme Court and President Herbert Hoover , Alderman was hanged later that year on a Coast Guard base near Fort Lauderdale, Florida .

January 8 - Unione Siciliano leader Pasquale Lolordo is killed in his apartment supposedly by Joe Aiello and members of the Bugs Moran 's North Side Gang .

February 14 - Four unidentified men, dressed as Chicago police officers, storm into a North Side Street garage and murder seven members of George Bugs Moran 's North Side Gang . Known as the St. Valentines Day Massacre , the attack effectively ends the five year gang war between Al Capone and George Bugs Moran .

May 9 - Meyer Lansky marries Anna Citron.

May 13 - 15 - The Atlantic Conference is held by East Coast and Midwest organized crime leaders from which the National Crime Syndicate will later be formed.

May 27 - Chicago Outfit hitman Albert Anselmi , one of the men suspected in the murder of Dion O'Bannion , is killed by Al Capone after a failed attempt to gain leadership of the Chicago Outfit.

May 29 - Thomas McElligot , a member of the Westside O'Donnell's , is killed in a Loop saloon in Chicago.

July 2 - Benjamin Evangelista , a religious leader and real estate tycoon, is killed with his wife and four children in what is believed to be connected to possible dealings with organized crime.

September 4 - Westside O'Donnell member Frank Cawley is killed.

December 29 - Chicago Bootlegger James Walsh is killed by Charles Baron after a Prize Fight .

December 30 - Stephanie St. Clair is arrested by Chicago police and sentenced to eight months in prison.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

R.W. Burnett's novel ''Little Caesar'', based on Sam Cardinelli's Black Hand gang, is published

BIRTHS

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

Frank Chin , Digilio - Galante crime family member and government informant

Joseph Lombardo ( Joe Padula ), Chicago Outfit Capo

Frank A. Pugliano "Frankie Pugs", Patriarca Crime Family associate and West Springfield gambling club owner

Albert Caesar Tocco , Chicago Mafia leader

Joseph Ullo , New York mobster and suspected ".22 caliber" hitman

April 7 - Joe Gallo (Joseph Gallo), New York Mafia leader

March 8 - Nicky Scarfo (Nicodemo Scarfo), Philadelphia and Atlantic City Mafia Don

DEATHS

January - James Alderman , Florida bootlegger

January 8 - Pasquale Lolordo , Unione Siciliano leader

May 27 - Albert Anselmi , Chicago Outfit hitman

May 29 - Thomas McElligot , Westside O'Donnell member

September 4 - Frank Cawley , Westside O'Donnell member

December 29 - James Walsh , Chicago bootlegger