Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone

An American gangster

Al Capone in 1930

Here's a time line of Al Capone's life:

• 1899 - was born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1918 - Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin
• 1919 - Capone left New York for Chicago at the invitation of Johnny Torrio, who was imported by crime boss James "Big Jim" Colosimo as an enforcer
• 1925 - became the new boss of an organization that took in illegal breweries and a transportation network that reached to Canada, with political and law-enforcement protection.
• 1929 - Capone was arrested by FBI agents as he left a Chicago courtroom after testifying to a grand jury that was investigating violations of federal prohibition laws.
• 1939 - He was paroled
• 1947 - dies at the age of 48.