this day in disney history

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I found a site with disney history it is very interesting. Here is the link for september 18
1917:

Versatile voice actress June Foray (famously known as the voice of

Rocket J. "Rocky" Squirrel on the animated The Rocky and Bullwinkle

Show) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her Disney credits include the

sounds of Lucifer the cat in Cinderella, the voice of Hazel the Witch in the 1952 short Trick or Treat, and Peter Pan

- for which she played a live-action mermaid to serve as a reference for the animators. She is also the voices of

Grandmother Fa in Mulan and Mulan II, and Grammi in the animated TV series The Gummi Bears. In Who

Framed Roger Rabbit, Foray voiced Wheezy (the chain smoker weasel) and Lena Heyena. Foray can be heard in

the Disney park attraction Pirates of the Caribbean - as the wife of the man getting dunked!

1982:

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1982:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]R[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]on Schneider (who has been appearing in the Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland) arrives in Orlando, Florida to prepare fo his newest role. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He has been hired to play a wizard named Dreamfinder for Epcot's Journey Into Imagination pavilion, which will [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]debut[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] with the new theme park on October 1. (The actual attraction Journey Into Imagination With Figment won't open until March 1983.)
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here is a link for October
here is a link for November
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here is a link for Jan
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here is a link for march
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]September 19th[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1927:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's second [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Oswald[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] the Lucky Rabbit cartoon [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Oh, Teacher[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] is released[/FONT]

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ctor Adam West, the voices of Ace in the 2005 [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Chicken Little [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]and
[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Uncle Art in the 2007 [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Meet The Robinsons[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], is born in Walla Walla,
[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Washington. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He is also the voice of Timothy 'Fearless Ferret' North on Disney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Kim
[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Possible[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] - a washed-up actor who believes he is the superhero he portrayed on television[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]... a nod to West's 1960s TV role of Batman! (Fans of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Family Guy[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] know him as the voice of Mayor Adam West - an intense, soft-spoken, delusional politician.)[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1966:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney gives what will turn out to be his last press conference. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He speaks about the development of the Mineral King ski resort in southern California. It will feature skiing, an alpine village, skating rink, hotels, dormitories for young people, and restaurants. (Disney's plans will quickly be put to a stop when critics and environmentalists feel the untouched land would be desecrated. Congress will eventually vote to turn Mineral King into a part of Sequoia National Park.)
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isneyland's Monsanto Hall of Chemistry is removed to make way for the new Adventure Through Inner Space attraction.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1989:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Library of Congress selects [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] to be placed on the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or esthetically significant."[/FONT]​

 

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1964:

Nurse-turned-actress, comedienne, writer, director, television producer and daytime television host Bonnie Hunt is born in Chicago, Illinois. Her Disney voice credits include Dolly in Toy Story 3, Sally in the 2006 Cars, Flint in the 2001 Monsters Inc., and Rosie in the 1999 A Bug's Life. (Movie fans may recognize Hunt from such features as Rain Man, Beethoven, and Cheaper by the Dozen.)
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1938:

Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Brave Little Tailor

is released. The most elaborate and expensive Mickey Mouse cartoon ever produced to date, it will be nominated for an Academy Award

1962:

The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs "The Golden

Horseshoe Revue" (it is the first episode of Disney's ninth season on television).

The program features the 10,000th show of Disneyland's famous stage show!

1980:

The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction debuts at Walt

Disney World with a soft opening. Designed by Imagineer Tony

Baxter and ride design engineer Bill Watkins, it has been manufactured

by Arrow Dynamics (a roller coaster design company based in Clearfield, Utah).

2005:

Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, presents "Behind the Magic: 50 Years of Disneyland." The exhibit (in partnership with Walt Disney Imagineering) features 250 items, including artwork, hand-crafted models and marketing materials.



Ghost Whisperer, a new supernatural drama co-produced by Touchstone Television/ABC Studios, debuts on CBS. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a woman who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, the series will run for 5 seasons.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1902:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]S[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ongwriter Hall of Famer Al Hoffman is born in Minsk, Russia. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]At age 6, he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington. Starting out as a drummer, he moved to New York City and began writing songs. Along with Mack David and Jerry Livingston, Hoffman wrote such classic Disney tunes as "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (for [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Cinderella[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]). Among Hoffman's non-Disney hit songs: "Hot Diggity"
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](a #1 hit for Perry Como), "Papa Loves Mambo," and "Mairzy Doats."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1953:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]M[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]arvin Davis (future [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Disney Legend[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]) completes his second-generation "hub" layout of the proposed Disneyland. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Davis (not to be confused with animator/Imagineert Marc Davis) will continue
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]to work closely with Walt Disney in designing and laying-out virtually every aspect of the park's conceptualization and architecture.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1927[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's seventh [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Oswald the Lucky Rabbit[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Ocean Hop[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] premieres at the Colony Theater in New York City[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1953[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney phones artist Herb Ryman at his home on this Saturday
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]morning to inquire about the possibility of Ryman drawing some overall concept
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]sketches of a new theme park. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Walt's brother Roy is to leave for New York on Monday to meet with possible investors.) Although Ryman isn't a Disney employee at this time ... he agrees to meet Walt at the studio. When he arrives at the Disney lot - Walt is waiting out front! The work Walt and Herb will do together over the upcoming "lost weekend" will help define the look of Disneyland. (Ryman, a master artist and teacher - and later an Imagineer - will have a career spanning more than fifty years as a production designer, art director and illustrator at many top Hollywood studios.)

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1967:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]C[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ompass East Corporation (made up of many dummy companies responsible for purchasing the Florida land for the new Disney World theme park) is renamed the Walt Disney World Company.[/FONT]
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[FONT='Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]13th Food & Wine Festival begins
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1993:​

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]K[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]raft ends its sponsorship of EPCOT's The Land pavilion. Nestle will take over the following day.
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[FONT='Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"No, I’m not. You’re not going to call me on Saturday morning at 10 A.M. and expect me to do a masterpiece that Roy could take and get the money. It will embarrass me and it will embarrass you. You know you’ve had this idea for a long, long time. Why did you wait for the Saturday morning before the Monday to come here and ask me to make a fool of myself?" -Herb Ryman speaking to Walt Disney (Sept 26, 1953)
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1958:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]"[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]avy Crockett at the Alamo"[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]airs on the ABC-TV series [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Walt Disney Presents[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].
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1938:
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Disney's first full-length animated feature Snow White
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and the Seven Dwarfs is released in Sweden
1947:
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Disney's 9th animated feature film, Fun and Fancy Free (two stories hosted by
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Jiminy Cricket) is released through RKO Pictures. The two segments include
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Bongo (the story of a circus bear cub who runs away) and Mickey and the Beanstalk (an adaptation of "Jack and the Beanstalk"). This marks the beginning of sound effects man Jim Macdonald as the voice of
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Mickey Mouse (although he & Walt share the job on Mickey and the Beanstalk). Walt has hand-picked
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Macdonald to follow in his footsteps. (Starting with this film, Macdonald will be Mickey's voice for the next 3
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decades!) The voice cast of Fun and Fancy Free also includes Edgar Bergen (in a live-action sequence),
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Luana Pattern, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Billy Gilbert, and Dinah Shore.​

1982:

At EPCOT Center's Future World, the attractions Energy Exchange, FutureCom,
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Kitchen Kabaret Revue, Universe of Energy and Harvest Theater all open as the
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park prepares for its October 1 grand debut. (The park is in the midst of previews for Cast
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Members and families.) Meanwhile over at the American Adventure, exhausted Imagineers are happily relieved
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as the the entire show runs from start to finish without stopping or crashing for the first time. The show has been a monumental struggle to create.​

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1933:

The Writers Club honor Walt Disney with a Hollywood party given in honor of the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies. Such notable guests attending include Will Rogers, Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard

1935:

The Mickey Mouse short On Ice, directed by Ben Sharpsteen, is released. Mickey shows off his skating talents for Minnie, but winds up rescuing Donald when he's nearly blown over a frozen waterfall. Meanwhile, Goofy tries a new form of ice fishing


1953:

Artist Herb Ryman and Walt Disney sketch out plans for an amusement

park to be built in California.

Meanwhile in New York, Walt's brother Roy meets with the 3 major TV networks,

seeking financing for Disneyland. Unfortunately CBS TV executives are not

interested. NBC's parent company RCA, stalls in making a commitment. But ABC's Leonard Goldenson

eagerly agrees to participate! (The final agreement - which won't be signed until April 1954 - will include a

$500,000 investment from ABC-Paramount, guarantee for $4.5 million line of credit, in return for 35%

interest in Disneyland and a weekly one-hour TV program with Disney films and production for TV

1982:

At EPCOT Center, Canada, China, and France open around the World Showcase as the park has a soft opening in preparation for its grand opening[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].
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1938:

Walt Disney Enterprises, Disney Film Recording Company, and Liled Realty and Investment Company are merged into Walt Disney Productions.



Later this evening, Walt convenes about 60 artists on his soundstage for a two-

and-a-half hour piano concert. Walt provides a running commentary on what the audience will be

seeing in a new "concert feature" (later titled Fantasia). A rough of The Sorcere's Apprentice is also screened

1963:

The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 1 of

"The Horse Without a Head." This episode marks season ten of Disney's television series

1999:

A[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]t Epcot, the Mickey Mouse arm holding a wand is dedicated with "2000" over Spaceship Earth.
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1961:

Legendary trumpet player & vocalist Louis Armstrong debuts at Disneyland

as part of the Second Annual Dixieland at Disneyland event. Also performing live at the

park on this evening - Kid Ory, Teddy Buckner, Matty Matlock, The Young Men From New Orleans, Firehouse

Five Plus Two and the Disneyland Strawhatters. Portions are filmed for an upcoming television episode -

Disneyland After Dark (to be broadcast in April 1962).

1963:

The Babes in Toyland Exhibit, located on Disneyland's

Main Street, closes after a near 2-year run.

1970:

The Disney theatrical feature Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? is released.

Directed by Ward Kimball, the live-action short (which uses avant-garde film techniques) looks at American car culture from the late 1960s. It is narrated by Kurt Russell. (It will later air on television on The Wonderful Wold of Disney[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)[/FONT]
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1982:

Pepsi-Cola's sponsorship of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue ends. (A sponsor since July 1955, Pepsi's relation with Disney had been damaged in 1971 when Coca-Cola signed on for co-sponsorship of other attractions.) Eastman Kodak will take up the sponsorhip of the Golden Horseshoe Revue the very next day.

1993:

General Electric's contract as sponsor of the Horizons Pavilion

at Disney World's Epcot runs out on this day. (Even though GE decides not to continue sponsorship of Horizons, Disney will continue to operate the attraction until its closing in late

2003:
The Orlando Magic open their 2003-04 training camp at

Disney's Wide World of Sports.
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Mickey's PhiiharMagic, a new computer-animated

3-D film attraction at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, opens to guests. (An official grand opening ceremony will be held October 8th.)​

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2006:

Today marks the final day

of Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration​

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1932:

Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Bugs in Love, directed by Burt Gillett, is released

1955:

Mickey Mouse appears on the cover of this week's TV Guide magazine. (The Mickey Mouse Club is scheduled to air on ABC October 3.)

1956:

The five-millionth guest enters Disneyland !

1971:

Almost 10,000 visitors converge near Orlando, Florida, to witness the grand opening of Walt Disney World, which includes the Magic Kingdom - Disney's second theme park, and two resorts

1979:

Ground is broken for EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World. The ceremony, more of a "land-filling" than a "ground breaking," features a 40-ton Terex truck, which rolls onto the site to deliver the very first batch of soil. In attendance is Disney CEO Card Walker, executive vice president of WDW ________ Nunis, and every governor who had a hand in the development of Walt Disney World.

1983:

The Horizons pavilion opens in Future World at EPCOT Center. It includes the films Choose Your Tomorrow and Omnisphere. The attraction uses Disney's Omnimover conveyance system, which takes guests past show scenes depicting visions of the future.

1996:

W[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney World begins a 15-month-long 25th anniversary celebration with a rededication of the Florida resort by CEO Michael Eisner, Vice Chairman Roy Disney and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1890:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]C[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]omedian & film star Groucho Marx (best known for the 15 feature
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]films he made with his siblings, the Marx Brothers) is born Julius
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Henry Marx in New York City. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He is caricatured in the Disney shorts [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mickey's Gala Premier[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (1933), [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mother Goose Goes Hollywood [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](1938), and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Autograph Hound[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (1939) along with his "silent" brother Harpo. Disney animator Ward Kimball even appeared on a 1954 episode of Groucho's television show [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]You Bet Your Life[/FONT]

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1959:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]R[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]od Serling's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Twilight Zone[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] makes its debut on CBS-TV with
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]an episode called "Where Is Everybody." [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In this episode, actor Earl Holliman
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]plays a man who finds himself alone in a strange and seemingly deserted town. He is
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]dressed in an Air Force jumpsuit, but does not remember who he is or how he got there. Sensing he is beeing
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]watched, he wanders the town in hopes of finding another living creature. He finally collapses next to a street
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]crossing, and presses a button labeled "walk." It is revealed that the walk button is in fact a panic button and that
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he is really an astronaut named Mike Ferris who has been confined in an isolation room as part of his training!
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The successful series will later be the inspiration for Disney's Tower of Terror park attractions.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Ironically an inspection certificate outside the tower's elevators at WDW in Florida has the number 10259
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]written on it. 10259 ... October 2 '59!?)[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1971:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Liberty Square Riverboat opens at Walt Disney World (the day after
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]the park's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]grand debut[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]) with the [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Admiral Joe Fowler[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] taking its first trip around the Magic Kingdom's River of America. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](The boat is named after Fowler, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who was responsible for overseeing the construction of both Disneyland and Walt Disney World.)
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Admiral Joe Fowler[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] will carry Magic Kingdom guests for almost the next 10 years.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1987:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney Dollars debuts in EPCOT Center. They are the same $1 and $5 bills that are being used in Disneyland[/FONT]

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1941:

Walt and Lillian Disney and eight of his employees leave Valparaiso, Chile aboard

the ship the Santa Clara. They've been on a two-month visit to South America. The ship will take

them through the Panama Canal and up north to New York City - for the world premiere of Dumbo

1955:

The second episode of the Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Comedian Wally Boag (from Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue) appears on Guest Star Day. The 1953 cartoon Mickey's Kangaroo is also shown

1956:

Disneyland welcomes 4-year-old Debra Rutherford of Quincy, Washington ...

the 5 millionth guest through the main gate!

1982:

Fortune magazine features a cover story on Florida's newest theme park -

EPCOT Center. An article entitled Disney Gambles on Tomorrow, explains that

"The success of Epcot is critical to Disney's future prosperity, for the fabled

entertainment company has recently suffered unaccustomed reverses."

1993:

Disney World's Mission to Mars attraction, running since June 1975, closes

in Tomorrowland. (It will be replaced in 1995 with ExtraTERRORestrial

Alien Encounter ... and ultimately with Stitch's Great Escape!)

2006:

The Spangler family from Randolph, Ohio spend the morning at Disney World as the Magic Kingdom's only guests! The family of four are the

first big winners of Disney's "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration​

 

[Mukta]

Thank you so much for this link.
I have been looking for something like this because my birthday is one of the coolest days in Disney history. (Oct 1)
Thanks! :wave:

 

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Thank you so much for this link.
I have been looking for something like this because my birthday is one of the coolest days in Disney history. (Oct 1)
Thanks! :wave:

your welcome

 

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1902:

Entrepreneur Ray Kroc, famous for significantly expanding the McDonald's Corporation, is born in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1996, McDonalds will sign a ten year global marketing agreement with the Walt Disney Company to promote and help each other. Coincidentally, Ray Kroc and Walt Disney will first meet in an Army camp in Connecticut in 1918!

1922:

The Laugh-O-Gram animated short Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, directed & co-animated by Walt Disney, is released

1949:

Disney's 11th animated feature film The Adventures of Ichabod

and Mr. Toad is released. The film features the voices of Bing Crosby, who

narrates Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and Basil

Rathbone, who narrates Kenneth Grahame's tale "The Wind in the Willows."

1955:

In Anaheim, California, the Disneyland Hotel opens (opposite the main exit of

Disneyland) with 104 rooms. Owned by the Wrather Corporation, the hotel won't be purchased by Disney

until 1988.

1977:

Kikkoman's sponsorship of the Adventureland Veranda restaurant at

Disney World's Magic Kingdom begins. The restaurant, the first location that visitors to Adventureland via the bridge from Main Street encounter, serves fried chicken, hot sandwiches and soft drinks in a

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1982:

EPCOT Center's World of Motion, a whimsical look at the development of

transportation from the human foot to a bustling futuristic city, is officially dedicated

(although it has been up and running since the park's grand debut on October 1). It

is sponsored by General Motors - the very first company to sign with Disney to

sponsor an EPCOT pavilion

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1927:

Walt Disney watches the Warner Brothers preview of The Jazz Singer (one of the first films to feature sound) at the Warner Theatre in New York City. Walt realizes that he needs to add audio to his cartoons

1955:

Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Circus Day. The Ted

DeWayne Troupe performs with assistance from the Mouseketeers.

(DeWayne will act as the coordinator for the Disneyland Circus that will run from November thru December

of 1955.) Also debuting is the animated short I'm No Fool With a Bicycle hosted by Jiminy Cricket. It is the

first of a series of educational cartoons produced especially for the Mickey Mouse Club

1989:

A state-of-the-art Disneyland marquee is unveiled in Anaheim. The new sign is 50

percent taller than its predecessor, which had stood at the Disneyland parking entrance on Harbor Boulevard

since 1958.

1992:

Walt Disney World announces plans to build three resorts - with sports, music, and wilderness themes - that will offer over 4,500 rooms.

The Florida resort also plans to build a new water theme park
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1919:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney, who has served as a Red Cross volunteer in France, arrives back in the United States. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Aboard the [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]SS Canada[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], he pulls into New York Harbor after a long slow trip.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1940:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]S[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]inger-songwriter J[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ohn Lennon, who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, is born in Liverpool England.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In August 1965 Walt Disney met with Brian Epstein - manager of The Beatles - to discuss the possibility of the popular Fab Four performing songs for the upcoming film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Jungle Book[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. Later Lennon supposedly
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]nixed the idea and Walt ended up using semi-soundalikes to voice what wound up being vultures in the film.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In late 1973 Lennon visited Disneyland with his son Julian, girl friend May, ex-wife Cynthia (mother of Julian), and friends Mal Evans (once a Beatles roadie) and Jesse Ed Davis. Lennon, who had not seen Julian in 4 years, thought the Anaheim park was a good place to reconnect with his 9-year-old son.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]On [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]December 29, 1974[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] Lennon, while staying at Disney's Polynesian Village Hotel (today known as Disney's Polynesian Resort), signed the paperwork that officially broke up The Beatles. Although the group hadn't worked together since 1970, it took another 4 years for the proper legal paperwork to be agreed upon. He was the last Beatle to sign the documents thus ending The Beatles at Walt Disney World.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1956:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney pens a letter to the future (to be placed in a time capsule) from his Burbank, California studio entitled:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]PREDICTION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN WORLD 50 YEARS FROM NOW[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mr. Disney believes that the world will be overturned by technology[/FONT]
has anyone read this letter?

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2003:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ctress Julie Andrews takes a spin on Cinderella's Golden Carrousel as
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]five members of television's "The Brady Bunch" make an appearance at Disney
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]-MGM Studios as part of Disney World's Magical Gatherings celebration. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]They join
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]dozens of celebrities this weekend who are helping Disney World open new attractions and shows.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] E[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]pcot closes at 3:00 pm for a special evening press event for the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]opening of Mission: SPACE. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The dedication is presided over by Walt Disney Co.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]NASA President Sean O'Keefe. In attendance are legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Lovell and Wally Schirra. The event also includes beamed in remarks and well-wishes
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]from Russian Cosmonaut Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA science officer Ed Lu - who are both aboard
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]the International Space Station.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]S[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ugar Ray and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The B-52s perform on the Fountain Stage in Epcot after the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mission: SPACE ceremony and prior to the evening's display of Illuminations[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1900:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]L[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]egendary actress Helen Hayes is born in Washington, D.C. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Her Disney credits include the 1974 [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Herbie Rides Again[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (as Mrs. Steinmetz ) and the 1977 [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Candleshoe[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (playing Lady St. Edmund).[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1941:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's animated feature [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Pinocchio [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]is released in Canada.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1980:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney re-releases its 1946 film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Song of the South[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] to theaters, along with the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]animated short [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mickey Mouse Disco[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](To this day, the complete version of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Song of the South[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] has
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]never been available on home video in the United States.)[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2002:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] Walt Disney Company and Frito-Lay announce a new multi-year agreement by
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]which Frito-Lay snack products will be featured at both the Walt Disney World and
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Disneyland Resorts[/FONT]​