Volume 13 , Issue 7

This Day In History (February 14)

On this day in history, February 14, 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.

Do you remember hearing stories of the St. Valentines Massacre of 1929? Seen the movie?

The headlines on that day read: "7 Chicago Gangsters Slain by Firing Squad of Rivals, Some in Police Uniforms." Four machine gun executioners, wearing badges, made sift escape in automobile.

The first paragraph reads, "Chicago, Feb. 14 -- Chicago gangland leaders observed Valentine's Day with machine guns and a stream of bullets and as a result seven members of the George (Bugs) Moran-Dean O'Banion, North Side Gang are dead in the most cold-blooded gang massacre in the history of this city's underworld." The dead were identified as James Clark, Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, John May, Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, John Snyder, Albert Weinshank. -- READ REST of the STORY.

On Feb. 14, 1847, Anna Howard Shaw, one of the most influential leaders of the women's suffrage movement, was born. Following her death on July 2, 1919, her obituary appeared in The Times.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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