#OTD (Feb 20) in 1938, former #NYC #Mafia power Ciro #Terranova died at Manhattan's Columbus Hospital days after suffering a paralyzing #stroke. The only one of four male siblings to die of natural causes, Ciro was forty-nine when he passed.

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Stroke takes the 'Artichoke King'

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