Capone was found guilty on 17 October 1931 of Federal Income Tax Evasion and was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment by Judge James Herbert Wilkerson.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Although nobody was ever brought to trial for the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, it is generally accepted that the gangsters were gunned down on the orders of South Side Gang boss Al Capone.
On the 4th May 1932, Al Capone began life as a convict in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
On the 14th February 1929, seven men with connections to Chicago’s North Side Gang were gunned down in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
On the 15th December 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution came into effect, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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