Police and onlookers gather outside the S.M.C. Cartage Co. garage on Feb. 14, 1929, following the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Five members of mobster Al Capone’s gang killed seven members of George ‘Bugs’ Moran’s gang inside the garage. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum.
Headline in History: Seven men were killed in Chicago’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 during Prohibition-era gang violence.
Police and onlookers gather outside the S.M.C. Cartage Co. garage on Feb. 14, 1929, following the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Five members of mobster Al Capone’s gang killed seven members of George ‘Bugs’ Moran’s gang inside the garage. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum.
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1779: Capt. James Cook is killed in Hawaii.
1876: Bell and Gray filed for telephone patents.
1919: UPS is founded
2005: YouTube domain is registered.
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