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-==Events==
-*Facing a shortage of "[[soldiers]]" and other low level members, [[New York City|New York]]'s [[Five Families]] begin actively recruiting members after a twenty-year hiatus.
-*[[Salvatore Bonanno]], the son of [[American Mafia|mafia]] boss [[Joseph Bonanno]], becomes a "[[made man]]" and an official member of the [[Bonanno crime family]].
-*February 9 – In [[Sicily]], the bandit [[Gaspare Pisciotta]] dies in his cell from [[strychnine]] poisoning while on trial. Pisciotta had claimed that he killed his companion and separatist [[Salvatore Giuliano]] on orders from [[Mario Scelba]], then Italian Minister of the Interior.
-*March 25 – [[Joe Adonis]] is convicted of perjury and sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary. Facing a deportation order from 1954, Adonis offers to leave the country voluntarily while the verdict is under appeal as an alternative to jail time.
-*March 27 – [[Johnny Dio]] is convicted on charges of evading New York state income taxes, and sentenced to 60 days in prison.<ref>"Tax Evasion Laid to Union Official." ''New York Times.'' April 28, 1953; "Union Aide Sentenced." ''New York Times.'' March 27, 1954.</ref>
-* April 11 – The Rome daily newspaper [[Avanti! (Italian newspaper)|Avanti!]] publishes a photograph of a candy factory in [[Palermo]] under the headline "Textiles and Sweets on the Drug Route."  The factory was reportedly set up by [[Calogero Vizzini]] and Italian-American gangster [[Lucky Luciano]] in 1949. In the evening after the story is published, the factory closes and the laboratory's chemists are reportedly smuggled out of the country. Police suspected that the factory was a cover for heroin trafficking.<ref name="Heroin">[http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/09.htm Luciano Organizes the Postwar Heroin Trade] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417232005/http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/09.htm |date=2011-04-17 }}, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred W. McCoy.</ref>
-*July 10 – [[Calogero Vizzini]] the [[Sicilian Mafia|Mafia]] boss of [[Villalba, Sicily|Villalba]] in [[Sicily]], dies. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II. Thousands of peasants dressed in black, politicians, and priests would take part in his funeral.  Attendees would include Mussomeli boss [[Giuseppe Genco Russo]] and the powerful boss Don [[Francesco Paolo Bontade]] from Palermo (the father of future Mafia boss [[Stefano Bontade]]) – who was one of the pallbearers. An elegy for Vizzini would be pinned to the church door. It read: ''"Humble with the humble. Great with the great. He showed with words and deeds that his Mafia was not criminal. It stood for respect for the law, defence of all rights, greatness of character: it was love."''
-*July–December – According to FBI reports, several meetings between Mafia leaders are observed in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Chicago, Illinois]] and [[Mountainside, New Jersey]].
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-==Arts and literature==
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-*''[[On the Waterfront]]'' (film) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/] starring [[Marlon Brando]].
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-==Births==
-*[[Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman|Joaquin Guzman-Loera]] – Mexican [[drug trafficking|drug baron]]
-==Deaths==
-*[[Calogero Vizzini]], [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[mafiosi]]
-==References==
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-[[Category:1954 in law|Organized crime]]
-[[Category:Years in organized crime]]