Popular myth has it that a US Army airplane had flown over Vizzini’s home town Villalba on the day of the invasion and dropped a yellow silk handkerchief marked with a black L (indicating Luciano).
September 16 - Leaders of the Blocco del popolo (The Popular Front) in Sicily, the communist Girolamo Li Causi and socialist Michele Pantaleone, went to speak to the landless labourers at an election rally in Villalba, challenging Mafia boss Calogero Vizzini in his own personal fiefdom.
Born in Villalba, Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Bruno emigrated to the United States in his teens and settled in Philadelphia.
Dalmau has played in the NCAA, NBDL, and the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico (BSN) with the Piratas de Quebradillas, Coamo Maratonistas, Villalba, and San German Athletics.
According to his version published in "Mafia e politica 1943-1962" a US Army airplane had flown over Villalba on the day of the invasion and dropped a yellow silk foulard marked with a black L (indicating Luciano).
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Michele Pantaleone (Villalba 1911 – Palermo, February 12, 2002) was a respected journalist and expert on the Sicilian Mafia and one of the first to shed light on the links between organized crime and political power.
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Pantaleone was born in Villalba, a village in a poor region of Sicily, where most people lived of subsistence agriculture, which was also the home town of the prominent Mafia boss Calogero Vizzini.
Angelo Bruno (1910–80), Sicilian-American mobster born in Villalba who ran the Philadelphia crime family for two decades.
Walter McJones (born: Walter Mc Kown Jones) (May 22, 1883 - January 10, 1944) founded the municipality of Villalba in Puerto Rico and was the first Mayor of Villalba between 1917 and 1919.
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McJones and Marvin together purchased «Hacienda El Semil» in Villalba.
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Walter McJones, José Ramón Figueroa y Rivera, and José Victor Figueroa are credited, through the Municipal Council appointed by Governor Arthur Yager, for founding the Municipality of Villalba in 1917.
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In the mid-1950s, she exhibited with Carmelo Arden Quin, Martin Blaszko, Gregorio Vardanega, Virgilio Villalba, Luis Tomasello, and others in the Asociacion Arte Nuevo in Buenos Aires, organized by Aldo Pellegrini.
In the general election, Villalba defeated Democratic former Representative Carol Kent, 33,970 votes (54.2 percent to Kent's 28,762 (45.8 percent).
Club Baloncesto Collado Villalba was a professional basketball club based in Collado Villalba, Spain.
In the 14th century the entire Terra Chá Region (including Guitiriz and its capital Villalba) ended up as part of the domains of Fernán Pérez de Andrade whose family were to became the First Counts of Villalba during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.
Virginio Cáceres Villalba (born 21 May 1962 in Itacurubi) is a retired football defender from Paraguay.