Harry Daugherty and Jess Smith hide in Daugherty's parents' house as a tornado ravages Washington Court House, Ohio. The victims include 10-year old Mary Shakledorf. ("A Man, A Plan...")
Nucky Thompson claims to have searched for food chest deep in snow in order to feed his family, ultimately killing three rats, while his father Ethan Thompson was drunk. He later denied the story, however. ("Boardwalk Empire")
1892: Doomsday cult leader Edgartin Sterry prophesies the Second Coming to take place in this year. Nelson Van Alden's father, one of his followers, gives away the family farm in anticipation and the family awaits in a tent for the whole of the year. Van Alden's relation with his parents begins to sour afterwards.
Margaret gets pregnant with Douglas Walton's child, the son of the barrister she was working for as a maid. Refusing to tell the father's identity, and threatened with being confined to a Magdalene Sisters asylum, she steals Eamonn Rohan's passage and immigrates to the United States. She miscarries on arrival. ("Family Limitation")
Jimmy is injured by a German grenade during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and is treated in a field hospital in Verdun. Experimental surgery is able to save his leg. Fred Sagorsky is killed during the same battle. ("Anastasia", "Home", "Ging Gang Goolie")
Jimmy spends several months at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC and returns to Atlantic City in January of next year. ("Home", "Broadway Limited")
December 11-12: British paramilitaries set fire to several buildings in the Irish city of Cork and shoot at the firemen when they try to contain the flames.
Harry Daugherty is forced to resign his post as Attorney General by the late Harding's Presidential successor, Calvin Coolidge. The president appoints Harlan F. Stone as the new Attorney General charging him with ending the corruption of the Harding Administration. Stone was responsible for the appointment of J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Department of Justice'sBureau of Investigation
Jake Guzik begins to serve as Al Capone's principal bagman in payoffs to police and politicians.
Gaston Means is released from federal prison after serving two years
Construction of the Atlantic City Convention Center begins
September:
Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at The Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded. The attack was an attempt on Capone's life by the North Side Gang. In retaliation Capone sanctions a hit on their new leader, Hymie Weiss
In the mayoral race of Chicago, Al Capone backed William Hale Thompson. On the polling day, nicknamed the "Pineapple Primary" the city was plunged into chaos. Very similar to the 1924 mayoral race of Cicero, Capone and his cohorts manipulated the polls with violence and intimidation. 62 bombings took place and at least 2 politicians were killed, 500 federal marshals were called in to ensure voters safety. The term "Pineapple Primary" comes from the slang term of a grenade.
September: Al Capone invites Frankie Yale to Chicago to mend their relationship. Despite the visit going well, their friendship began to rapidly deteriorate after Yale returned to New York. Due to many other business obligations, Capone would have to wait until 1928 to retaliate.
October: George Remus goes on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Imogene. Remus pleaded temporary insanity and was granted a six-month insanity sentence. Upon release, Remus attempted to get back into bootlegging, but soon retired when he found that the market had been completely taken over by gangsters.
November: Marcus Garvey's sentence is commuted by President Calvin Coolidge, upon his release Garvey is deported to Jamaica. The popularity of the UNIA diminished greatly following his expulsion
1928:
1928:
Undated:
Johnny Torrio returns to the United States as Benito Mussolini begins putting pressure on the Mafia in Italy
Arnold Rothstein is shot and mortally wounded during a business meeting in Manhattan, he died the next day. The shooting was reportedly linked to debts owed from a three-day long, high stakes porker game a month earlier. The gambler George "Hump" McManus was arrested for the murder, but later acquitted for lack of evidence. Following this, Lucky Luciano quickly pledges fealty again to Joe Masseria
Joe Masseria is now formally known as "Joe the Boss," head of the largest Mafia grouping in New York. Lucky Luciano, now a top aide in the Masseria organization, reluctantly begins paying homage and tribute.
Joseph Kennedy begins investing in the legal importation of spirits
February: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre occurs, seven mob associates of the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran, successor to Hymie Weiss, are killed. The main target of the attack however, Bugs Moran, narrowly avoided death
March:
Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of The United States
Following the election of President Herbert Hoover, U.S. Treasury SecretaryAndrew Mellon was specifically charged with bringing down Al Capone. Eliot Ness was chosen to head the operations under the National Prohibition Act targeting the illegal breweries and supply routes of Capone. Ness creates a team of nine men known as "The Untouchables" to help in his effort.
The Atlantic City Convention Center officially opens
Famous hit men John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, killers of Dean O'Banion, were found brutally beaten and shot to death in Indiana. Their murders were never solved.
October:
Lucky Luciano is forced into a limousine at gun point by three men, beaten and stabbed, and dumped on a beach in Staten Island.He survived the ordeal but was forever marked with a scar and droopy eye.
The Wall Street Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurs, beginning the ten-year long Great Depression
November:
Senator Walter Edge resigns from his post as a Senator of New Jersey to become the U.S. ambassador to France
The efforts of Eliot Ness and his team bring major damage to Capone and his organization
1930s
1930:
1930:
Undated:
A "Jake paralysis" outbreak occurs in the United States resulting from adulterated Jamaica ginger sold as an alcohol substitute
February: Joe Masseria issues a decree ordering the death of Salvatore Maranzano, in return, Maranzano declares war on Masseria. These events mark the formal beginning of the Castellammarese War, the bloodiest and most important Mafia war in history.
October: The first of many assassination attempts on Legs Diamond, associate of the late Arnold Rothstein, occurs. He was shot five times and survived.
November: As 1931 approaches, the tide begins to turn and the war starts going poorly for Masseria. Lucky Luciano, his trusted friends and associates seek to secure their positions in the coming power struggle.
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