It was on this day in 1952 when the longstanding hate campaign against the comic genius on account of his political views finally culminated in his banishment when the US Attorney General rescinded Chaplin’s re-entry permit.

Though it was in 1952 that he was officially banned from the United States, Charlie Chaplin had been raising the ire of the country's moral guardians, who were concerned about him being "anti-American" as early as 1917, according to The Guardian.