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January 13 - Vincent Rao , in exchange for protection from federal prosecution , agrees to testify against the Lucchese Crime Family 's criminal operations.

January 15 - According to federal authorities, it is reported with the absence of Joseph Bonanno the Bonanno Crime Family has begun to splinter into two factions led by Salvatore Bonanno and Gaspar DiGregorio which is expecting to lead to a civil war within the New York crime family.

March 18 - New York mobster Vincent Rao is indited for perjury by a federal grand jury.

April 24 - Owney Madden , one of the last surviving Prohibition gangsters, dies of natural causes at a hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas .

November 23 - Hours after escaping from federal authorites, in which had had pulled a revolver, Murray Humphreys is found dead of an apparent heart attack.

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DEATHS

April 24 - Owney Madden , Prohibition gangsters and leader of the Gophers street gang.

November 23 - Murray Humphreys , Chicago Outfit member