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St Valentine's Day Massacre
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St Valentine's Day Massacre

The murder in Chicago, USA, of seven unarmed members of the ‘Bugs’ Moran gang on 14 February 1929 by members of Al Capone's gang disguised as police. The killings testified to the intensity of gangland warfare for the control of the trade in illicit liquor during Prohibition.



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