39 Years Ago Today

[The cat]

According to BBC Radio London here in the UK, on this day in 1965 Walt Disney announced to the world that he had bought up 100's of acres of central Florida and intended to build DisneyWorld.
a) Is this date correct?
b) If it is I think we should all give a quiet moment of thanks.

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Everybody wants to be a Cat

 

[longfamily]

**Shed's a tear of happiness***

 

[ClemsonTigger]

Here's a good website for Disney History including your event (actually it was yesterday):

http://thisdayindisneyhistory.homestead.com/Nov15.html

 

[The cat]

Thanks ClemsonTigger. So my local radio station got it right. I guess we should now go to b. on my earlier post.

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Everybody wants to be a Cat

 

[The cat]

Whoops! They were out by one day - probably took that long for the information to get over to the UK in the '60's.

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Everybody wants to be a Cat

 

[Jacks Sally]

"According to BBC Radio London here in the UK, on this day in 1965 Walt Disney announced to the world that he had bought up 100's of acres of central Florida and intended to build DisneyWorld"

Thanks goodness

Thats a cool timeline site ClemsonTigger .........thanks for posting it