One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

* 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

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Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

One journalist wrote: " Nobody in the world but Charlie Chaplin could have done it.

The photographer considered the impromptu self-introduction a prank and angrily answered his caller with the riposte, " If you're Charlie Chaplin, I'm Franklin Roosevelt!

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

Chaplin's photographic archives are held by the Musée de l ' Élysée in Lausanne, and some of the images in the collection were presented in an exhibition, Charlie Chaplin – Images d ' Un Mythe, in 2011 – 2012.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

* The Charlie Chaplin Archive Online catalogue of Chaplin's professional and personal archives at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy

* Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival in Waterville, Ireland

* Charlie Chaplin Museum Website for a future museum at the Manoir de Ban, Switzerland

* Early films by, about or starring Charlie Chaplin at the Internet Archive

* Charlie Chaplin at the British Film Institute.

* The TIME 100: Charlie Chaplin Archived, May 2011.

The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees including Thomas Freeman ( ships fireman ), Walter Parks ( clerk ), Tom Mundy, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay ( all boilermakers ), William Chapman, George Sage, and William Chamberlain and apprentice riveter Charlie Dove.

In 1745 William Murray and John ( then only 15 ) joined the ill-fated campaign of " Bonnie Prince Charlie " ( Charles Edward Stuart ).

While 26 U. S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted.

The film was adapted for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater aired on January 3, 1944 with its original leading actress and William Powell as Uncle Charlie.

Harper is warned privately in chambers by his political adviser, Charlie Halloran ( William Frawley ), that doing so would be disastrous for his upcoming reelection bid.

* William Frawley as Charlie Halloran

The first city elections were held on April 19, 1869 at which the following officials were elected: George F. Stearns, Mayor ; Charlie Gay, Recorder ; W. Irving Latimer, Treasurer ; and William Van Loo, Supervisor.

* Charlie Rose with William Styron, A discussion about mental illness, 50-minute interview

*" An Appreciation of William Styron ", Charlie Rose ,-55-minute-long video

In 1877, McCarty ( now widely known as William Bonney ) moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico, and was hired by Doc Scurlock and Charlie Bowdre to work in their cheese factory.

It serves as a memorial monument noting three individuals buried in the cemetery, Tom O ' Folliard, Charlie Bowdre, and William H. Bonney.

William ( Will ) graduated in 1883 and joined his father's practice, with Charles ( Charlie ) joining after he completed his training in 1888.

Bronze statue of the Mayo brothers, " Charles Horace Mayo | Dr. Charlie " ( left ) and " William James Mayo | Dr. Will " ( right ), in front of the Mayo Clinic Gonda Building in Rochester, Minnesota

His friend and co-pilot is Charles C. Charles, aka Hotshot Charlie ( William Tracy ), while the romantic interest is provided by the attractive blonde Burma ( Sandra Spence ).

Grieve, Charlie Chaplin, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Aldous Huxley, Storm Jameson, Eimar O ’ Duffy, Sybil Thorndyke, Bonamy Dobrée, Eric de Maré and the American publisher James Laughlin.

Three Indians who remained in the village are known to have survived the massacre – George Bent's brother, Charlie Bent, and two Cheyenne women who were later turned over to William Bent.

* Charlie Cox, in the 2010 television adaptation in which William Hurt plays Ahab.

Also appearing in the film's vintage footage are Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Clara Bow, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Carole Lombard, Dolores del Río, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, James Cagney, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Windsor, Tom Mix, Marie Dressler, Bobby Jones, and Pope Pius XI.

* Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year – Wilfred Rhodes, Bill Storer, Charlie Townsend, Albert Trott, William Lockwood

* 1975: The Wiz – Book by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

Directed by Joshua Logan, the show starred Ethel Merman as Annie, Ray Middleton as Frank Butler, Art Bernett as Foster Wilson, Harry Bellaver as Chief Sitting Bull, Kenneth Bowers as Tommy Keeler, Marty May as Charlie Davenport and William O ' Neal as Buffalo Bill.