Events

• The Olympis Café, a dive bar in Chicago's Whiskey Row vice district, is opened by Sime Tuckhorn and quickly becomes frequented by the city's white slavery
  Sexual slavery
  Sexual slavery is when unwilling people are coerced into slavery for sexual exploitation. The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies...
  
   traders.
• Summer - Monk Eastman
  Monk Eastman
  Edward "Monk" Eastman was a New York City Gangster who founded and led one of the most powerful street gangs in New York City at the turn of the Twentieth Century, the Eastman Gang. His other aliases included Joseph "Joe" Morris, Joe Marvin, William "Bill" Delaney, and Edward "Eddie" Delaney...
  
  , while traveling through the Bowery
  Bowery, Manhattan
  Bowery , commonly called "the Bowery," is a street and a small neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan...
  
  , is attacked near Chatham Square
  Chatham Square, Manhattan
  Chatham Square is a major intersection in Manhattan's Chinatown. The square lies at the confluence of seven streets: Bowery, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row. The postal ZIP Code is 10038.-History:...
  
   by several members of the Five Points Gang
  Five Points Gang
  Five Points Gang was a 19th-century and early 20th-century criminal organization, primarily of Italian-American origins, based in the Sixth Ward of Manhattan, New York City. Since the early 19th century, the area was first known for gangs of Irish immigrants...
  
  . Eastman, armed only with brass knuckles and a slung-shot, manages to fight them off knocking out three of the attackers before being shot twice in the stomach by the fourth member. Quickly fleeing the area, Eastman managed to walk to Gouverneur Hospital
  Gouverneur Hospital
  Gouverneur Hospital is a public hospital in New York City. Its oldest existing building was built in 1897 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982....
  
   where he stayed for several weeks. Eastman refuses to speak to police about the incident however, only a week after his release, a Five Pointer was found shot to death between Grand
  Grand Street (Manhattan)
  Grand Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City. It runs east-west parallel to and south of Delancey Street, from SoHo through Chinatown, Little Italy, the Lower East Side to the East River....
  
   and Chrystie Street
  Chrystie Street
  Chrystie Street is a street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It runs for about seven blocks, from Canal Street to East Houston Street. Chrystie Street extends northward to become Second Avenue....
  
  .

Births

• Joseph Rao
  Joseph Rao
  Joseph "Tough Joey" Rao , also known as Joie Rao and Joseph Cangro was a New York mobster who was both a rival and an associate of mobster Dutch Schultz...
  
   [Joseph Cangro], drug trafficker and associate of Dutch Shultz
• August 6 - Dutch Schultz
  Dutch Schultz
  Dutch Schultz was a New York City-area Jewish American gangster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket...
  
   [Arthur Flegenheimer], New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   Prohibition
  Prohibition
  Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the...
  
  gangster