Events
- Cleveland Black Hand leader Rosario Borgio along with Paul Chiavaro, Vito Mezzano, and Lorenzo Biondo (Bionde) are convicted of the murder of several Akron police officers and executed.
- Al Capone leaves New York, after an altercation with a member of the White Hand Gang, where he becomes a top lieutenant to Johnny Torrio.
- Recently imprisoned criminal Joe Valachi encounters inmate and future mentor New York mobster Alessandro Vollero.
- Salvatore Sabella becomes leader of the Philadelphia crime syndicate.
- Frank Costello forms a novelty company which makes Kewpie dolls in punchboard games. By the following year Costello had made $80,000 which he used to become a bootlegger at the start of Prohibition.
- July 29 - New York labor slugger Johnny Spanish is killed by three unidentified gunman possibly including rival gangster Nathan Kaplan.
Read more about this topic: 1919 In Organized Crime
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)