* 1890s – 1909 — Giuseppe " the Clutch Hand " Morello — imprisoned in 1910

* 1920 – 1922 — Giuseppe " the Clutch Hand " Morello — stepped down becoming underboss to Masseria

* 1922 – 1930 — Giuseppe " Peter the Clutch Hand " Morello — murdered on August 15, 1930

* 1890s – 1909 — Giuseppe " the Clutch Hand " Morello — founded the 107th Street Mob ; imprisoned 1909

* 1920 – 1922 — Giuseppe " the Clutch Hand " Morello — stepped down becoming underboss

* 1922 – 1930 — Giuseppe " the Clutch Hand " Morello — murdered on August 15, 1930

* Black Hand leader Giuseppe Morello is released from prison and begins counterfeiting operations to smuggle counterfeit $ 5 US dollar bills from Sicily into New York.

* New York Black Hand leader Giuseppe Morello is arrested for counterfeiting and sentenced to three years.

* Charles Umbriaco arrives in New York later joining the Black Hand under Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo.

* October-A Morello Black Hand member, Giuseppe de Priemo, is released from Sing Sing Prison after serving a sentence for counterfeiting.

* July 5-Months after his arrival in New Orleans from Sicily, Black Hand leader Giuseppe Esposito is quickly arrested by Police Chief David C. Hennessy and his cousin Detective Mike Hennessy.

* April 13-New York police find a body stuffed in a barrel, similar to the New Orleans " barrel murders " of the previous decade, who was later recognized by a US Secret Service agent as an associate of Black Hand leaders Giuseppe Morello, Tomasso " The Ox " Petto, and Ignazio " the Wolf " Lupo.

After letters were found by Black Hand victims from New Orleans, fifteen members of the Morellos, including Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo, were arrested.

* 1867 – Giuseppe Morello, Sicilian-American gangster ( d. 1930 )

It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, some fictional, such as The Godfather < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Vito ( Andolini ) Corleone, and some real, such as Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

* Giuseppe Morello, gangster

As other gangs formed in New York, they acknowledged Giuseppe Morello as their boss of bosses.

In 1910, Giuseppe Morello and his second-in-command, Ignazio Saietta, were sentenced to 30 years in prison for counterfeiting.

On August 15, 1930, Castellammerese loyalists executed a key Masseria enforcer, Giuseppe Morello, at Morello's East Harlem office ( a visitor, Giuseppe Pariano, was also killed ).

Giuseppe Morello

The first incarnation of what would become the Morello crime family was the 107th Street Mob, established by Giuseppe Morello, later joined by associate Ignazio " the Wolf " Lupo.

However, when Giuseppe Morello and Lupo went to prison in 1909 for counterfeiting, Morano decided that he could kill the remaining Morello leadership and take the family's more lucrative rackets.

A powerful Sicilian rival, Salvatore D ' Aquila, had declared a death sentence on Giuseppe Morello and Lupo, both recently released from prison, forcing them to flee to Italy for safety.

When the two men returned to New York, they relied on Giuseppe " Joe the Boss " Masseria, a new Morello ally, to kill D ' Aquilla.

* Giuseppe Masseria assumes control of the Morello Gang.

Along with his half-brother Giuseppe Morello and brothers Ciro and Vincenzo Terranova, he founded the Morello crime family, and was later one of the participants in the Mafia-Camorra War of 1914-17.

* May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal ( d. 1989 )

* May 25 – Giuseppe Maria Giulietti, Italian explorer ( b. 1847 )

* May 6 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his troops depart from Quarto on the Expedition of the Thousand.

* May 15 – Battle of Calatafimi: Troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples in Sicily, during the Second Italian independence war.

* May 1 – The first Fascio dei lavoratori ( Workers League ) is founded by Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida in Catania, ( Sicily ).

* May 21 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist ( d. 1914 )

* May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti, Tuscan satirical poet ( b. 1809 )

* May 3 – Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian explorer ( d. 1846 )

The opera reached New York City on 16 May 1898 when it was performed at Palmo's Opera House with Giuseppe Agostini as Rodolfo.

The Bourbons soon reconquered Palermo ( May 1849 ), which remained under their rule until the appearance of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946, with a memorable concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini — twice La Scala's principal conductor and an associate of the composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini — with a soprano solo by Renata Tebaldi, which created a sensation.

On 11 May 1860 the landing in Marsala of Giuseppe Garibaldi took place.

Italian patriot and general Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was born in the neighbouring Nice ( then part of Sardinian state ), started his Expedition of the Thousand on the evening of 5 May 1860 from a rock in Quarto, a quarter of Genoa.

In May 1943 he met the Christian Democrat leader Giuseppe Spataro, who introduced him into anti-Fascist circles in Milan against the Fascist regime of Mussolini.

Towards the end of the century it became clear that a new theatre was needed and, after a 20-year process, the present theatre opened on May 25, 1908, with Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda.

Giuseppe Baini ( October 21, 1775 – May 21, 1844 ) was an Italian priest, music critic, and composer of church music.

Giuseppe Baini died in May 1844 at Rome.

At a memorial concert for Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci on May 14, 1931 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he was ordered to begin by playing Giovinezza but he refused even though the fascist foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano was present in the audience.

Giuseppe Marc ' Antonio Baretti ( 24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London ) was an Italian-born English literary critic and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries.

The city, which had lost its provincial capital status in 1817, rebelled against the House of Bourbon on 16 May 1860, leaving its gates open to Giuseppe Garibaldi and his expedition.

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; May 1, 1908 – July 22, 1968 ) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo.

* Some right-wing Roman Catholics also claimed Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May, 1989 ) had been elected as Pope Pius XII's successor in 1958 but that his election was in effect vetoed under Communist threat that Catholics in Communist countries would be persecuted if Siri, who allegedly had announced that he wished to be known as Pope Gregory XVII, was accepted as Pope.

Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May 1989 ) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.