Al Capone

Parents moved to the United States in 1893

Jan 1, 1893

Ccapone Parents first moved to the United States in 1893

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Period: Jan 1, 1893 to Jan 25, 1947

Al Capones Birthday. Brooklyn, New york

Jan 17, 1899

Just Married- Al and Mae Coughlin married December 18,1918

Dec 18, 1918

He then met a woman named Mae Coughlin (1897–1986), with whom he had a child named Albert Francis Capone (nicknamed Sonny). Capone and Coughlin married a short time later, on December 18, 1918

U.S. government approved the Eighteenth Amendment

Jan 16, 1919

a law prohibiting (or preventing) the manufacture, sale, and transport of liquor. Capone took this as his chance to make business.

Capone fled Brooklyn for Chicago to avoid a murder charge

Jan 16, 1919

• In Chicago he joined the Five Points Gang and quickly moved up its ranks. He became the top assistant to the gang's leader, his old friend Johnny Torrio, who had set up operations in the city

Apr 15, 1920

•Between 1927 and 1931 he was viewed by many as the real ruler of Chicago.

Apr 15, 1927

•In the late 1920s President Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) ordered his secretary of the treasury to find a way to put Capone behind bars. Capone had up to this point managed to escape jail time for any of his crimes

Apr 15, 1929

During the St. Valentine's Day massacre in 1929, seven members of a rival gang led by George "Bugsy" Moran were shot to death in a Chicago garage

Apr 15, 1929

In October 1931 he was sentenced to ten years of hard labor...

Apr 15, 1931

which he served in a prison in Atlanta, Georgia, and in prison on Alcatraz Island in California's San Francisco Bay.

Capone was Released on parole

Jan 1, 1939

Al died due to a stroke and pneumonia

Jan 25, 1947