Events
- Frankie Yale takes leadership of the Unione Siciliane after founder Ignazio "the Wolf" Lupo is convicted of numerous charges ranging from extortion to murder.
- Black Hand member Pasquale Biondo is convicted of the murder of an Akron, Ohio police officer.
- Tong leader Mock Duck, upon his release from Sing Sing prison, retires from crime.
- June 6 - Ciro Terranova is charged with ordering the deaths of Charles Lombardi, Joe DiMarco, and Michael Hayes, however the case is later dropped.
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“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)