His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for prosecution.

* 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( d. 1962 )

* November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss ( d. 1962 )

* January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( b. 1897 )

Dewey, the District Attorney for Manhattan, had risen to national fame as the " Gangbuster " prosecutor who had sent numerous infamous Mafia figures to prison, most notably Lucky Luciano, the organized-crime boss of New York City.

However, New York crime boss Lucky Luciano and the " Mafia Commission " decided that Dewey's murder would provoke an all-out crackdown.

By the late 1930s Dewey's successful efforts against organized crime — and especially his conviction of Lucky Luciano — had turned him into a national celebrity.

Masseria had Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Carlo Gambino, Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello on his side.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

* Lucky Luciano ( 1974 )

Davis began work on Marked Woman ( 1937 ), as a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano.

The town was a haven for gangsters in the 1930s, including longtime resident Owney Madden and Lucky Luciano.

* Bill Graham as Charlie " Lucky " Luciano

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

Sinatra would later testify about this in court, but announced that he didn't know any Carlo Gambino, but it got to a point where he had to explain why he was attending the Havana Conference in Cuba in 1946, showing up with $ 2, 000, 000 in a silver suitcase and a picture that showed Sinatra, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, and Carlo Gambino having a drink by a pool.

Gambino was also the only mob boss of the Five Families who attended the burial of the longtime friend " Lucky " Luciano.

Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962 ), was an Italian-born, naturalized American mobster born in Sicily.

It is not clear how Luciano earned the nickname " Lucky ".

Lucky Luciano in 1948

* Lucky Luciano ( 1973 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Gian Maria Volonté

* The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano ( 2011 ) – based on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano by Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer is currently in the works.

*" Lucky Father Brown " / " Belted Sweater " / " Shoeshine " 7 " on Pop Bus ( 1992 )

In the UK, the song missed the top 10, making it only the ninth Madonna single release ever – of more than 60 – not to chart in the UK top 10, after " Everybody " ( didn't chart, 1982 ), " Lucky Star " (# 14, 1984 ), " Take a Bow " (# 16, 1994 ), " Oh Father " (# 16, 1995 ), " One More Chance " (# 11, 1996 ), " Hey You " (# 187, 2007 ), " Miles Away " (# 39, 2008 ) and " Revolver " (# 130, 2010 ).

Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.

* Charles " Lucky " Luciano – Founder of the National Crime Syndicate, who used Murder, Inc. as their enforcers

In the early 1930s, Buchalter joined Charles " Lucky " Luciano and other Mob bosses to form the " National Crime Syndicate.

He was the notorious malefactor " Lucky " Ned Pepper in True Grit ( 1969 ), in which he engaged in a climactic shootout with John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn on horseback.

Additional credits include 2x4, ( which won him the Cinematography Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival ), Vanya on 42nd Street, Leaving Las Vegas, One True Thing, In America, Cold Creek Manor, The Lucky Ones, Rachel Getting Married, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2012 ).

* 2012 – Lucky Diamond, American dog model ( b. 1997 )

* September 5 – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, American cartoon

In the summer of 1898, the " Three Lucky Swedes ": Norwegian-American Jafet Lindeberg, and two naturalized American citizens of Swedish birth, Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, discovered gold on Anvil Creek.

* Robert T. Tobin, the only African American to have served as mayor of Minden, was a native of Lucky.

Bangor is named in the North American version of I've Been Everywhere by Lucky Starr.

Beckett had wanted to work with Keaton several years earlier, when he offered him the role of Lucky in the American stage premiere of " Waiting for Godot ," but Buster turned it down.

Taylor-Wood would eventually split with Henry Bond and marry Jopling while Liam Gillick went on to marry Sarah Morris, one of the American artists featured in part two of ' Lucky Kunst.

Originally called " Lucky " in Japanese, Nintendo decided to give the various Pokémon species " clever and descriptive names " related to their appearance or features when translating the game for western audiences as a means to make the characters more relatable to American children.

Lucky Records of the 1930s was a record label based in Tokyo, Japan, which specialized in issuing American popular music to the Japanese audience.

Many of the other Lucky Records issues are surprisingly eclectic, including recordings by Eddie Condon, Red Allen, Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington, but also rural southern blues records otherwise unissued outside of the United States in the era ( and in the US mostly restricted to labels catering to the African American market ).

The team was named after British American Tobacco plc ( BAT ), which owned and sponsored it in order to display its Lucky Strike and 555 brands.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Lucius Venable " Lucky " Millinder ( August 8, 1910 – September 28, 1966 ) was an American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader.

J. B. Duke founded the American Tobacco Company in 1890, which subsequently acquired the Lucky Strike Company and over 200 other firms.

One of British American Tobacco's most popular products " Lucky Strike "

Local brands owned by British American Tobacco include: Benson & Hedges ( Bangladesh ), Belmont ( Colombia, Chile and Venezuela ), Jockey Club ( Argentina ), Stradbroke ( Australia ), Hollywood ( Brazil ), du Maurier ( Canada ), Prince ( Denmark ), North State ( Finland ), HB ( Germany ), Sopianae ( Hungary ), Wills ( India ), Ardath, Bentoel, and Country ( Indonesia ), Carrolls, Carrolls Kings, Grand Parade, Black Allen ( Germany ), Sweet Afton, Major ( Ireland ), Boots, Alas ( Mexico ), Gold Leaf ( Bangladesh, Pakistan ), Jan III Sobieski ( Poland ), Yava Gold ( Russia ), Courtleigh ( South Africa ), Benson & Hedges, Dunhill, Kent, Pall Mall, Perilly's, Peter Stuyvesant, and Rothmans ( Malaysia ), Parisienne ( Switzerland ), Maltepe ( Turkey ) and Xon ( Uzbekistan ), Marlboro ( with Philip Morris International ) ( Bangladesh ) Craven A ( Vietnam and Jamaica ) as well as BAT snus, Holiday, Freedom and Park Drive ( New Zealand ) Royals ( UK ), Embassy ( Kenya ), Viceroy, Newport, Lucky Strike in Dominican Republic and Delta in El Salvador.

Lucky Strike relics marking the American Tobacco Historic District.

The American Tobacco Company dominated the industry by acquiring the Lucky Strike Company and over 200 other rival firms.