On this date, December 27...
... in 1906, a Black Hand bomb destroys a grocery on Manhattan's Elizabeth Street.
... in 1907, suspected regional Black Hand leader Valentino Piazza is arrested in Pittsburgh.
... in 1908, New York mafiosi Pietro Inzerillo and Carlo Comigliano are both wounded during a gunfight on Elizabeth Street.
... in 1917, imprisoned Mafia leader Ignazio Lupo is believed to have had advance knowledge of a fatal attack by inmate Dimiter Popoff against an Atlanta Prison deputy warden.
... in 1927, with a Buffalo Catholic church refusing to hold a funeral for murdered gangster Filippo Mazzara, hundreds attend services at the Mazzara home.
... in 1934, John Alioto of Milwaukee is sentenced to prison following convictions for forgery and larceny.
... in 1935, prosecutor Thomas Dewey prepares a secret list of Manhattan's top-dozen racketeers. Newspapers report that 'Lepke' Buchalter, 'Gurrah' Shapiro and 'Dutch Golberg' Shomberg are on the list.
... in 1938, Santo Vultaggio dies in Brooklyn at age 60.
... in 1961, eleven defendants, including Joseph Valachi, Charles Schiffman and Vito Agueci, are convicted in New York federal court of running a narcotics smuggling operation.
... in 1965, members of the press learn that Peter Maas is preparing the memoirs of gangster Joe Valachi for publication.
... in 1982, 'Jack the Dandy' Parisi, alleged to be a former gunman for Murder Inc., dies in Hazleton PA at the age of 83.
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