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EVENTS

March - Federal authorities, helped by government informant Harold Konigsberg , discover a Mafia "graveyard" in New Jersey.

May - Joseph Bonanno is accused by federal authorities of using of running an international drug traffiking operation between Montreal, Quebec and New York City, New York .

June - Genovese and Gambino Crime Families are charged by federal authorities to hold a monopoly on Westchester County garbage carting and waste disposal.

July 13 - Thomas Lucchese , after being hospitalized on and off since August 1965, dies of natural causes at his Lido Beach, home in Long Island , New York . His criminal operations were divided up at the "Little Apalachin" conference the previous year.

November 17 - Vincent Rao , acting head of the Lucchese Crime Family , is convicted of Perjury and sentenced to five years in federal prison.

December 11 - Johnny Dio is convicted of Bankruptcy Fraud and is sentenced to five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

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BIRTHS

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Thomas Lucchese "Three Finger Brown", New York mobster and founder of the Lucchese Crime Family