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CAPONE BEHIND BARS ON THIS DATE IN 1932
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was a prohibition-era gangster who led a crime syndicate known as the "Capones". Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began an investigation of Capone in 1929. However, it was Frank J. Wilson, an agent of the Treasury Department, who conducted an investigation into Capone’s income tax violations that led to a indictment for income tax evasion in
1931. Following a long trial, Capone was found guilty and given an 11-year sentence along with stiff fines and liens on his various properties. After an appeal was denied, Capone was sent to Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary where he was later transferred to
Alcatraz on August 11, 1934.
OLDSMOBILE AD FROM THE 1940
BING CROSBY WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1903
Bing Crosby was a singer and actor born in Tacoma, Washington who became
one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century. He has over half a
billion records in circulation. Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for
his role for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going
My Way, and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of St. Mary’s
the following year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated twice for
playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. Crosby is one of the 22 people to have three stars on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From the 1956 MGM musical High Society
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