#8 feb.

Lottie Coll, the wife of slain gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, breaks down in tears on the shoulder of her lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, in Brooklyn, February 8, 1932. Originally a member of Dutch Schultz's gang, he later broke away and the two became vicious enemies. (At one point, Schultz walked into a Bronx police station and offered "a house in Westchester" to whoever killed Coll.) But Coll's killer was actually Owney Madden, boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob.

Part of the fuselage of the American Airlines plane that crashed into the East River on Feb. 1 is pulled out of the river, February 8, 1959, during recovery operations. As of that date, 33 bodies had been recovered from the crash.