Charlton and teammate Dennis Viollet swapped places with Tommy Taylor and David Pegg, who had decided they would be safer at the back of the plane.

Charlton, strapped into his seat, had fallen out of the cabin and when United goalkeeper Harry Gregg ( who had somehow got through a hole in the plane unscathed and begun a one-man rescue mission ) found him, he thought he was dead.

Gregg returned to the plane to try to help the appallingly injured Busby and Blanchflower, and when he turned around again, he was relieved to see that Charlton and Viollet, both of whom he had presumed to be dead, had got out of their detached seats and were looking into the wreckage.

In between, there was the pressing matter for Charlton of the 1966 World Cup for which England, as hosts, had not needed to qualify.

Luckily for Charlton, he had all three.

Charlton opened the scoring with a crisp side-footed finish after a run by Roger Hunt had forced the Portuguese goalkeeper out of his net ; his second was a sweetly struck shot after a run and pull-back from Geoff Hurst.

Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).

After the club's return, Curbishley proved an astute spender and by 2003 he had succeeded in establishing Charlton in the top flight.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

During the 1940s and 50s the attendance was often above 40, 000, and Charlton had one of the largest support bases in the country.

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

Banks thought Jack Charlton was going to clear ; Charlton in turn thought Banks had it covered.

Banks had little to do during the second half but his known powers of concentration were required when Jack Charlton gave away a dubious free kick 30 yards from goal.

The Germans had hope now, especially when Beckenbauer became more liberated in the game with Ramsey's decision to substitute Bobby Charlton.

Charlton placed the machine-gun on a fence where he launched a further attack before his left arm was hit again by further enemy fire becoming shattered and useless.

Research began ( Prof. T. Charlton ) in 1993, two years before its introduction on the island and five years after, to measure the influence that television has on the behaviour of children in classrooms and school playgrounds.

Originally the parishes of Dover St. Mary's and Dover St. James, since 1836 Buckland and Charlton have become part Dover, and Maxton ( a hamlet to the west ), River, Kearsney, Temple Ewell, and Whitfield, all to the north of the town centre, are within its conurbation.

Its northern bank is in Silvertown in the London Borough of Newham and its southern bank is in the New Charlton area of Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Charlton spent 1. 73 % ($ 306, 971 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 24 per person.

As Edwin A. Charlton writes in New Hampshire As It Is ( 1855 ), the mountain " received its name from Captain John Lovewell, who was accustomed to ascend it for the purpose of discovering the wigwams of the Indians, and who, on one occasion, killed seven Indians near its summit.

Realizing that its decision would result in the loss of many jobs, and after Pryce received much support from the acting community ( both Charlton Heston and John Malkovich threatened to leave the union if Pryce was not allowed to perform ) the AEA decided to make a deal with Mackintosh, allowing Pryce to appear in the production.

The city is well known for its football team, Hvidovre IF, where famous Danish football players such as Peter Schmeichel, Kenneth Brylle, and Michael Manniche have played. Stephan Andersen with a past in Charlton, have played for the club too.

In 1951, when Al Fago began as an in-house editor, Charlton hired a staff of artists that included its future managing editor, Dick Giordano.

Charlton also had middling success with Son of Vulcan, its answer to Marvel's Thor, in Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds # 46 ( May 1965 ).

Early in 1975, Cuti, already writing freelance for the company in addition to his staff duties, quit to write freelance exclusively for Charlton when its line expanded to include black-and-white magazines in addition to the King Features and Hanna-Barbera franchised titles.

But later that same year, Charlton Comics went out of business ; Charlton Publications followed suit in 1991, and its building and press were demolished in 1999.

He would produce several reprint titles under the company name of Avalon Communications and its imprint America's Comics Group ( ACG for short, Broughton having also purchased the rights to the defunct American Comics Group properties ), and announced plans to restart Charlton Comics.

This did not occur beyond its publishing a number of reprints and changing his company name to Charlton Media Group.

The London County Council had for many years wanted to connect its " North Side " and " South Side " tramway netwoks in order to be able to send " North Side " trams for overhaul to the Central Repair Depot at Charlton in South East London.

Intended to surpass its predecessor in opulence, the series ' producers were handed an immensely high budget for the era and cast a handful of well-known movie stars among its leads, including Charlton Heston, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Ross and Ricardo Montalban.

With 7, 982 undergraduate students and 65 degree programs, the campus has a student-to-faculty ratio of 18: 1 in its College of Arts & Sciences ; Charlton College of Business ; College of Engineering ; College of Nursing ; College of Visual and Performing Arts ; School of Education, Public Policy, and Civic Engagement ; and the School for Marine Science and Technology.

Charlton gave its name to Charlton House, and has links with the classic architect Inigo Jones, a street being named after him.

Describing the conception of Earth-4, Grant Morrison alluded that its interpretation of Vic Sage would resemble the classic Charlton incarnation, with tones borrowed from Rorschach and Watchmen.

He worked his way through the pecking order of teams, scoring regularly for the youth and reserve sides before he was handed his first team debut against Charlton Athletic in October 1956.

Charlton played 14 times for United in that first season, scoring twice on his debut and managing a total of 12 goals in all competitions, and including a hat-trick in a 5 – 1 away win over Charlton Athletic in the February.

Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.

Charlton was the first injured survivor to leave hospital, Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes were not hospitalized since they escaped uninjured.

England drew the opening game of the tournament 0 – 0 with Uruguay, and Charlton scored the first goal in the 2 – 0 win over Mexico.

Charlton turned professional in 1920 and first entered the Football League in 1921.

In 1987 Charlton also returned to Wembley for the first time since the 1947 FA Cup final for the Full Members Cup final against Blackburn.

Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.

In 1968, Manchester United became the first English ( and second British ) club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4 – 1 in the final with a team that contained three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.

* April 27 – FA Cup: Derby County beat Charlton Athletic in the first FA Cup final since the end of the war

Afterward, he attended the Actors Studio, until making his first television appearance in 1948 on an episode of Studio One, alongside Charlton Heston, for which he was paid US $ 75.

The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a postal card, selling the rights to Hymen Lipman, whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were labeled " Lipman's postal card.

The Bleeks first lived at The Hill in Mowbray but moved in 1875 to Charlton House.

A descendent of John de Charlton, the first Sir Thomas de Charlton, died in 1448 whereupon Swakeleys passed to his son, also named Sir Thomas, who became Speaker of the House of Commons and Member of Parliament for Middlesex.

Charlton was first settled in 1735.

Charlton Elementary serves students in kindergarten and first grade.

The region was first settled around 1770 when found from travelers from the a small village in Worcestershire in the UK called Charlton in which the town is named after.

Charlton Heston showed little interest in reprising his role as George Taylor from the first movie, but agreed to briefly appear with the provision that Taylor be killed at the story's start and that, instead of being paid, the producers donate money to charity.

Sweethearts was the comics world's first monthly romance title ( debuting in 1948 ), and Charlton continued publishing it until 1973.