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William McCoy, a Florida skipper, pioneered the "rum running" trade by sailing a schooner loaded with 1500 cases of liquor from Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas to Savannah and pocketing $15,000 in profits from just one trip. -
Layer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor.
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Roy Olmstead bootlegged alcohol while serving as police lieutenant. By 1920, Roy Olmstead had become "King of the Pudget Sound Bootleggers."
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Frank Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners, arresting them and dumping their whiskey into local streams. -
Four years after Prohibition was first imposed, the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold.
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Alphonse 'Al' Capone is blamed for murder of prosecutor, Billy McSwiggin. -
The Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan, goes to trial for bootlegging and hijacking. -
By 1929 gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States -
The Great Depression hits the country's economy hard -
What happened in the streets in the streets of Chicago during Prohibition made the city synonymous with murder and mayhem for a generation. On February 14, 1929, Al Capone has seven of Bugs Moran's men murdered in Chicago.