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11 years imprisonment (1931) Signature. Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( / kəˈpoʊn /; [1] January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname " Scarface ", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931. His seven-year ...
Jul 29, 2022 · July 29, 2022. The death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, in May 2020 drew widespread outrage after a video circulated online showing Officer Derek Chauvin holding his knee on Mr. Floyd ...
Apr 27, 2018 · One of Bell's co-defendants has since died in prison while the other, Anthony Bottom, is serving 25 years to life at maximum-security Sullivan Correctional Facility in Sullivan County. Bottom, 66 ...
Harry Houdini. Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known as Harry Houdini ( / huːˈdiːni / hoo-DEE-nee ), was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts. [3] Houdini first attracted notice in vaudeville in the United States and then as Harry 'Handcuff' Houdini on a tour of ...
Feb 15, 2009 · He would recount the astonishing tale of how, as an 11-year-old Polish Jew interned by the Nazis in a sub-camp of Buchenwald, he was sustained by a young girl who came each day to throw him apples ...
Jan 6, 2017 · Herman Shaw was a 30-year-old cotton farmer in Tuskegee, Alabama, when he saw a flyer offering free medical care by the U.S. government. This was back in 1932 and the Great Depression was bearing down hard on the already poor black farmers in the Deep South. Shaw jumped at what he said seemed like a godsend at the time.
Norman Milton Lear was born on July 27, 1922, in New Haven, Connecticut, [3] [4] to Jeanette ( née Seicol) and Hyman "Herman" Lear, a traveling salesman. [4] He had a younger sister, Claire Lear Brown (1925–2015). [5] Lear grew up in a Jewish household in Connecticut and had a bar mitzvah ceremony. [6] Both parents were of Russian-Jewish ...
