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Capone with his mother. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on January 17, 1899. [3] His parents were Italian immigrants Teresa (née Raiola; 1867–1952) and Gabriele Capone (1865–1920), [4] both born in Angri, a small municipality outside of Naples in the province of Salerno.
January 4 – Ciro Terranova, a former boss of the New York Morello crime family, is arrested by New York City police on vagrancy charges as he was entering Manhattan. February 14 – "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn , a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit and the reported organizer of Chicago 's St. Valentine's Day Massacre , is murdered in a ...
Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Died: 1968. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery. Bronx, New York. Bumpy Johnson has been called the Godfather of Harlem, and even inspired a television series of the same name ...
Their acquittal frees Anselmi and Scalise to work for their new boss, Al Capone. July 7 – Just before 9:00 p.m. on 21st Street in Brooklyn, an unidentified gunman in a black sedan shoots and kills James "Filesy" D'Amato (sometimes spelled DeAmato), a gambler friend and associate of Chicago's Al Capone.
Born in 1899 Brooklyn, New York to an immigrant family, Alphonse Gabriel Capone was destined for a life of trouble-making. Capone joined his first gang after being expelled from school at age 14.
The Castellammarese War (Italian pronunciation: [kaˌstɛllammaˈreːze,-eːse]) was a bloody power struggle for control of the American Mafia between partisans of Joe "The Boss" Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano that took place in New York City from February 1930, until April 15, 1931.
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
It was through the Five Points gang that Al Capone came to the attention of brutal New York mobster Frankie Yale. In 1917, 18-year-old Al Capone went to work for Yale at the Harvard Inn as a bartender and as a waiter and bouncer when needed. Capone watched and learned as Yale used violence to maintain control over his empire.