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Date: 19 December 1934
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan Birthday, Date of Birth
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934 – disappeared 8 November 1974, declared dead 27 October 1999), commonly known as Lord Lucan, was a British peer and gambler who vanished in 1974 after being suspected of killing his children's nanny and attempting to murder his wife.
An evacuee during World War II, Lucan attended Eton College and served with the Coldstream Guards in West Germany from 1953 to 1955. Having developed a taste for gambling, he played backgammon and bridge, and was an early member of the exclusive group of wealthy British gamblers at the Clermont Club. Lucan's losses often exceeded his winnings, yet he left his job at a London-based merchant bank and became a professional gambler. He was known as Lord Bingham from April 1949 until January 1964.
Lucan was known for his expensive tastes: he raced power boats and drove an Aston Martin. In 1963, Lucan married Veronica Duncan, with whom he had three children. The couple moved home to 46 Lower Belgrave Street in Belgravia in 1967, paying £17,500 for the house (equivalent to £400,000 in 2023).
After the marriage collapsed in late 1972, he moved out to a nearby property in January 1973, when they formally separated. A bitter custody battle ensued, which Lucan eventually lost. Apparently obsessed with regaining custody of the children, Lucan began to spy on his wife and record their telephone conversations. This fixation, combined with mounting legal expenses and gambling losses, had a dramatic effect on Lucan's life and personal finances.
On the night of 7 November 1974, Sandra Rivett, the nanny of Lucan's children, was murdered in the Lucan family home. A wounded Lady Lucan burst into the Plumbers Arms; she claimed to have been attacked by her husband and that he had admitted to killing Rivett. Lord Lucan had, by then, telephoned his mother, asking her to collect his children, and driven to visit a friend in Uckfield, East Sussex; he penned letters, protesting his innocence, claiming that he had intervened with an intruder attacking his wife and that his wife accused him of hiring a hitman to kill her. In the early hours of 8 November, Lucan drove off. The car was found abandoned in Newhaven. Lucan was never found. At the inquest into Rivett's death, held in June 1975, the jury returned a verdict naming Lucan as her killer. Lucan was declared legally dead in 1999, and a death certificate issued in 2016 allowed his titles to be inherited by his son George. Lucan's involvement in Rivett's murder and his fate remain a subject of debate, various theories, and continuing research.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Tuesday, December 18, 1934
- Place of Birth
- London
- Age
- 90
- Star Sign
- ♐
The December 18, 1934 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 351 day of the year. President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 90 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 18, 2024, 320 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 18, 2025, in 44 days. You have lived for 33,193 days, or about 796,637 hours, or about 47,798,270 minutes, or about 2,867,896,200 seconds.
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18th of December 1934 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 18, 1934
TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; News, Comment and Incident on the Stock Exchange and in the Financial Markets.
Date: 18 December 1934
NEWS OF THE STAGE; Portrait of Gilbert' Joins the Christmas Caravan -- 'Point Valaine' Premiere Advanced.
Date: 19 December 1934
NEWS OF THE STAGE; Travel Notes: Incoming and Outgoing -- Margalo Gillmore Ill -- How an Actress Spends a Holiday.
Date: 18 December 1934
RADIO STATION WINS NEWS 'PIRACY' SUIT; A Federal Judge Holds Items Belong to the Public When Paper Is Delivered. INJUNCTION IS REFUSED Associated Press Fought Broadcasting of Dispatche -- Another Court Held Opposite View.
Date: 19 December 1934
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