Arthur “Dooley” Wilson was an African-American entertainer best known for playing pianist Sam in Casablanca. In a reversal of minstrel-show convention, he got his nickname from performing the Irish song Mr.Dooley in whiteface.
Woodrow Wilson refused to receive the credentials of the British ambassador when he learned that the ambassador had told a mildly risque joke about the President and the second Mrs. Wilson.
Earl Hindman, who played the never fully seen next door neighbor Wilson on Home Improvement, was contractually forbidden to appear on TV series with his face in full view during the run of that show. His only other acting during the show consisted of voiceovers and stage appearances.
Lord Cornwallis, who surrendered to George Washington’s and the Comte de Rochambeau’s victorious American and French armies at Yorktown, Va. in October 1781, was technically The Earl Cornwallis for thirty years, until 1792.
1792 Ridgemont Reserve is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey aged for 8 years, is 93.7 proof alcohol , and was named for the year Kentucky became a state.
The House of Bourbon ruled France, Spain, and Luxembourg, as well as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which comprised a large part of Italy before unification, and Naples. Members of the dynasty are still ruling Spain and Luxembourg today.
In February 1981, King Juan Carlos, Bourbon ruler of Spain, stood up to an attemped military coup which then collapsed in just a day.
Among the lesser-known official titles of Juan Carlos are Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, of Brabant, of Milan, and of Neopatra.
King Henry I (Henri Beauclerc, or Henry the Good Scholar) of England/Duke of Normandy/many other titles married Adelicia of Brabant as his second wife after his only legitimate son and his daughter-in-law drowned. He had no children with his much younger second wife, a problem he knew could not be his because he’d had two dozen illegitimate children as well as several with his wife though only his daughter Matilda (also called Maude) survived. When Matilda gave birth to a healthy son by her second husband King Henry I, pleased with his grandson, formally ‘forgave’ Adelicia of Brabant for not having borne him children. (After Henry I died the baby became King Henry II and Adelicia remarried and bore her second husband many children.)
Peter O’Toole played King Henry II of England in two movies many years apart, Becket and The Lion in Winter.
Peter O’Toole’s only wife to date, Irish actress Sian Phillips, played the Empress Livia in the miniseries I, CLAUDIUS and the Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit order in David Lynch’s Dune.
Derek Jacobi played Claudius in both I, Claudius and in Kenneth Branagh’s movie of Hamlet.
The name James is taken from the Latin version of the Old Testament name that is usually spelled Jacob in English sources. The faction in 18th century England and Scotland devoted to the restoration of the Stuart Dynasty to the throne were called Jacobites because they acknowledged James, the son of King James II, as the rightful king of the United Kingdom rather than his Protestant half-sisters.
Well, he played a Claudius in each movie, but not the same dude. 
Basketball phenom LeBron James was dubbed “King James” by sportswriters and fans during his time with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Since leaving to play for the Miami Heat in July 2010, he’s, uh, not quite as popular in Cleveland anymore.
To date only two First Ladies have remarried after the death of their presidential husband: Frances Folsom Cleveland married Thomas Preston (a professor of archaeology) after Grover’s death and Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. There have been some several first ladies who had previous marriages to the president and some presidents have remarried after the death of their First Ladies.
Preston Sturges won an Oscar for the first film he directed, The Great McGinty – but for best screenplay. Orson Welles and Mel Brooks repeated this feat.
Mel Brooks has a single line in the second movie version of The Producers, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. It comes in the song “Springtime for Hitler,” in the musical-within-a-movie of that name.
Famed mime Marcel Marceau has the only (spoken) line in the 1976 Mel Brooks classic Silent Movie.
On January 5, 1976 former Beatles road manager Mal Evans was shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determined was an air rifle.
Gerald R. Ford, Republican of Michigan, was the only man to serve as both Vice President and President of the United States without having been chosen by the Electoral College to fill either job. Appointed VP by Richard Nixon, he was defeated in his Presidential election campaign in 1976 by Jimmy Carter, Democrat of Georgia.