this day in disney history

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When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls,

whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present,

practicing their terror with ghoulish delight.

1892:

Elias Disney (future father of Walt) pays $750 for a 25 x 125 corner lot on 2156 N.

Tripp Avenue, on the Northwest side of Chicago. The area was annexed into the city in 1889 and is now a desirable location for working-class families to buy lots and build homes of their own

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1927:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]All Wet[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (an [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Oswald[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] the Lucky Rabbit silent short) is released[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1939:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]his is the date of the fateful "elevator accident" at the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Tower of Terror, Disney's scary attraction at its Hollywood Studios. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]This is also the date
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]inscribed on the eviction notice that appears on the entrance gates and on the inspection notice in the elevators.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1953:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]his week's issue of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Saturday Evening Post[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] features part 1 of the article "The
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Amazing Story of Walt Disney" by Jack Alexander. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]It also features a series of color photos of Walt and his family & friends at their California home.
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1966:

At Disneyland's New Orleans Square, the new Pirates of the Caribbean River

is filled with water for the first time (the attraction will open March 18, 1967).

1994:

Disneyland and KIIS-FM Radio (featuring Rick Dees) host a special Halloween party from 6:00 a.m.to 10:00 a.m. Guests arriving at Disneyland in costume between 6:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. enter free of admission!


1996:

Ghost and goblins put on a happy face at Disney World's Magic Kingdom

for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. Guests attend the party

(held on this evening only) dressed in costumes and enjoy special entertainment, hayrides down

Main Street, U.S.A., and trick-or-treating for children throughout the park.
2000:

To celebrate the first Disney store opening in Europe 10 years ago, a special Pooh beanie is released. The item features Pooh wearing a pointed hat with the words "The Disney Store Europe" on it.



The Magic Kingdom hosts Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party for the third and final night of the season at Walt Disney World.
2001:

The Disney Village (at Disneyland Paris) hosts a ticketed event on this

Halloween night. Guests compete in a costume contest while enjoying the

evening's lineup of concerts, parades and shows.



Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party takes place at the Magic Kingdom

at Disney World for the fifth and final time this season. The special ticketed event had also

been held on October 18, 21, 26, and 28.
2002:

________ Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, announce that their newest feature Finding Nemo will be released May 30, 2003. The film, which is the 5th Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Film, will be accompanied by the acclaimed 1989 John Lasseter-directed Pixar short, Knickknack.



Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party is held for the sixth (but not the final time) this season. In a Disney World first, the ticketed event will also be held the following evening, November 1.
2003:

A Disney multi-media Haunted Mansion display

greets travelers at Grand Central Terminal's

Vanderbilt Hall in New York City. The free exhibit celebrates

the release of the new movie.



Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party is held for the tenth and final time this season.
1977:

Director, writer, producer and narrator James "Jim" Algar retires after 43 years with the Walt Disney Studios. He produced live-action films about animals and nature, worked on 26 one-hour episodes for The Wonderful World of Disney television series, and contributed to theme park attractions such as

"Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" and "The Hall of Presidents." Algar will be named a Disney Legend in 1998.
2006:

Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party is celebrated at the Magic

Kingdom for the 18th and final time of the 2006 season.



1892:

Elias Disney (future father of Walt) pays $750 for a 25 x 125 corner lot on 2156 N.

Tripp Avenue, on the Northwest side of Chicago. The area was annexed into the city in 1889 and is now a desirable location for working-class families to buy lots and build homes of their own.
1952:

Two Weeks Vacation, a Disney short featuring Goofy, is released.
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Doom Buggy is the show name for Disney's OmniMover system (used in their Haunted Mansion attraction). It was initially developed for the "Adventures in Inner Space" attraction. Disney World's Haunted Mansion has 160 cars with a guest capacity of 3,200 guests per hour.
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls,

whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present,

practicing their terror with ghoulish delight.


1951:

Animator Randy Cartwright is born Newsport News, Virginia. While attending UCLA, he will work at Disneyland in the character department - portraying such characters as Dopey and Pluto. A year after graduating he will accept a job at the Walt Disney Studios animation training program headed by the veteran Disney animator Eric Larson. Cartwright will begin his career as an inbetweener for Ollie Johnston on The Rescuers and progressed to full animator on Pete's Dragon. He will go on to animate Belle in Beauty and the Beast and become the directing animator for the Magic Carpet in Aladdin.
1953:

This week's issue of Saturday Evening Post features part 1 of the article "The

Amazing Story of Walt Disney" by Jack Alexander. It also features a series of color photos of Walt and his family & friends at their California home.
Allied Filmmakers live-action feature The Wind in the Willows is released. Featuring members of Monty Python's Flying Circus (Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones) the film will get great reviews, but unfortunatley get lost in the shuffle of a legal battle with distributors. When released to DVD by Disney's Home Entertainment division in 2004, the film's title will be changed to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

2002:

________ Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, announce that their newest feature Finding Nemo will be released May 30, 2003. The film, which is the 5th Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Pixar Film, will be accompanied by the acclaimed 1989 John Lasseter-directed Pixar short, Knickknack.

2005:

Gary Estrada rides Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion ride for the 999th time! He's the first person (to Disney's knowledge) to hit that goal in just 10 months. Estrada began his marathon riding in January.

2008:

Disney World closes the 37-year-old Hall of Presidents attraction after today for an extended refurbishment. The show will stay shuttered for more than eight months so Disney can update the hall’s aging light, sound, mechanical, projection and show systems and make room for a new, robotic version of the 44th president of the United States.

 

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11/1

1921:

Animator Retta Davidson - one of the few women animators who worked for Walt Disney Studios during the Golden Age of American animation - is born in Arcadia, California. After graduating from high school in 1939, she will join Disney as an inker and painter (first at the old Hyperion Studio location), where she will work on Pinocchio, Bambi, and Fantasia[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. In 1941, women who worked in the Ink and Paint Department will be invited to submit drawings in order to be considered for jobs in the Animation Department (as Word War II has taken many male animators into the service). Retta will be among the 10 chosen. Often credited as "Redda Davidson," she will work for Disney on and off until her retirement in 1985.[/FONT]​

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1936:

Harper's Bazaar prints an article by Janet Flanner

titled "Boom Shot of Hollywood." Her observations include, "Certainly

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]the sanest spot in Hollywood is that studio exclusively devoted to the creation of delicate deliriums and lovely lunacies - the fun factory of Mickey Mouse, Miss Minnie and Mr. Walt Disney, Incorporated."[/FONT]​

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1946:

Disney's Donald Duck & Goofy cartoon Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back is

released. Directed by Jack Hannah, Goofy is a "wild man of the jungle" and Donald a great white hunter!



In preparation for the Georgia premiere of Song of the South, artists Fred

Moore and ________ Mitchell, along with production expert Frank Bresson and

voice artist Clarence Nash open a "miniature studio" at the Belle Isle Building

Arcade in Atlanta. The exhibit includes Moore and Mitchell drawing sketches for visitors,

demonstrations of the animation process, and showings of a preview of the picture and scenes from Disney's 1941 The Reluctant Dragon. (Song of the South will premiere on November 12[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] at Atlanta's Fox Theater.)[/FONT]​

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1957:

An article titled "Walt Disney's Mechanical Wonderland" by Tom McHugh appears in

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1991:

Disney releases Fantasia to video and laserdisc

1999:

The Disney Wilderness Preserve opens to the public. It is home to hundreds of

wildlife species and is bordered by one of the last remaining undeveloped lakes in Central Florida. Located south

of Orlando at the headwaters of the Everglades ecosystem, the 12,000-acre preserve features a 3-mile hiking trail

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2002:

Disney's The Santa Clause 2 (the sequel to the 1994 film The Santa Clause)

opens in theaters. Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an

end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus! All the principal actors from the first film, including Tim Allen, David Krumholtz,

Eric Lloyd, and Judge Reinhold reprise their roles​

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11/2

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1832:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]K[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]epple Disney (Walt's paternal grandfather) is born to
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Arundel Elias Disney and Maria Swan in Ireland[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1940:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's Goofy cartoon [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Goofy's Glider[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] is released. Goofy has a hard time getting his homemade glider airborne![/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1947:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Hughes H-1 Hercules, also known as "Spruce Goose" a prototype heavy
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]transport aircraft designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company, makes its first
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]and only flight. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Built from wood because of wartime raw material restrictions on the use of aluminum, it is
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]nicknamed the "Spruce Goose" by its critics.) On this day, near Long Beach, California, the heavy transport flying
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]boat lifts off with Howard Hughes (one of the wealthiest people in the world) at the controls. It is is the largest flying
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]boat ever built, and has the largest wingspan and height of any aircraft in history.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In 1980, the Spruce Goose was acquired by the California Aero Club, who leased it to the Wrather Corporation and
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]put the aircraft on display in a large dome adjacent to the [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Queen Mary[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] exhibit in Long Beach, California. Eight years later, The Walt Disney Company acquired both attractions and the associated real estate from Wrather (when the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Disneyland Hotel was purchased)! No longer wanting to operate the domed exhibit, Disney gave up the Flying Boat
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]which eventually found a permanent home (thanks to the Aero Club of Southern California) at [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Evergreen
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Aviation & Space Museum[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] in Oregon[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1954:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]L[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]OOK[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] magazine gives readers "Your First View of Disneyland." The article reports that "bulldozers are piling up miniature mountains for a new product of Walt Disney's fertile imagination - a fabulous playground called Disneyland." [/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 checks into St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank (across from his studio),
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]complaining of shortness of breath, and pain in his left leg and neck. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Unfortunately
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]x-rays detect a walnut-sized cancerous spot on his left lung. Although immediate surgery is advised, Walt leaves
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1986:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]I[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]n New York City, a 12-by-16-inch celluloid, from Walt Disney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], is purchased for $30,800.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]P[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]opular voice over actor [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Paul Frees[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], known for his Haunted Mansion narration, passes away in California. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He also voiced several pirates in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction and Disney's Professor Ludwig Von Drake in eighteen episodes of the Disney anthology television series.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He began his acting career in 1942 and remained active for over 40 years. During that time, Frees was involved in more than 250 films, cartoons and TV appearances; like many voice actors, his appearances were often uncredited. (In TV commercials, Frees voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy and the elf who calls out to the Jolly Green Giant!) He will be named a Disney Legend in [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2006[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1989:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Dixie Landings will open in 1992 (and become known as Port Orleans Riverside in 2001).[/FONT]​

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2001:
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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]Monsters, Inc.[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (featuring the voices of John
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Goodman and Billy Crystal) opens. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]It is the fourth feature collaboration between
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Studios (but the first film Pixar has released not directed by John Lasseter)[/FONT]​

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2008:
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11/3

1922:

The Laugh-O-Gram silent cartoon Puss in Boots, directed and

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]co-animated by Walt Disney, is released.[/FONT]​

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1931:

Walt and Lillian Disney are aboard the luxury cruise ship SS California[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] as it departs Havana, Cuba. They will arrive in Los Angeles November 14.
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1954:

The Disneyland television series features an edited

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]movie version of the 1951 "Alice in Wonderland."
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1965:

Walt Disney appears on The Jack Benny Hour (Benny's first TV special after the demise of his regular series). [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Featured is a skit with Benny (cheap, petty, vain and self-congratulatory) visiting Disney's office ... asking Walt for free tickets to Disneyland for 110 guests!
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1977:

Disney's Pete's Dragon has its world premiere. This musical adventure features Helen Reddy (as Nora), Mickey Rooney (as her father), Red Buttons (as Hoagy), Jim Backus (as The Mayor), Jeff Conaway (as Willie), Charlie Callas (as Elliott) and Sean Marshall (as Pete). Although it is a live-action movie, its title character - a dragon named Elliott - is animated. The song "Candle on the Water" will receive an Academy Award nomination, and Helen Reddy's recording (with a different arrangement than the one her character sings in the film) will be released as a single by Capitol Records (and reach #27 on the Adult Contemporary charts). It is the first Disney film to be recorded in the Dolby Stereo sound system and the first involving animation in which none of the Nine Old Men were involved

1998:

Walt Disney World's newest attraction Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin officially opens at the Magic Kingdom. The popularity of the two Toy Story films has led to the creation of this Tomorrowland attraction (which is housed in the pavilion formerly home to If You Had Wings, If You Could Fly, Delta Dreamflight, and Take Flight).



The Skyway at Tokyo Disneyland (running since

the park debuted in 1983) closes.

2006:

Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause opens in theaters. Tim Allen

returns as Santa/Scott Calvin along with Martin Short as the mischievous Jack Frost.


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Toon Disney presents the world television premiere of Bambi II​

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce 16 films that are tentatively eligible for the animated feature film category. Among those named is the Disney/Pixar Cars. (The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be

announced in January 2007.)


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R[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]uth Patricia Shellhorn, Disneyland's first landscaper, passes away at the age of 97 in California.
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The Walt Disney Company announces that it has made a $7 million investment in forest conservation projects to decrease carbon dioxide emissions. The

largest share of the money — $4 million — will go to Conservation International for reforestation

projects in the Tayna and Kisimba-Ikobo Community Reserves in the Democratic Republic of

Congo, and the Alto Mayo conservation project in Peru​

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11/4

1895:

Ben Sharpsteen, Disney Legend, animator, and the co-director of many Disney films

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1916:

Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite, the second voice of Epcot's Spaceship Earth, is

born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He also appeared in the 1981 TV special Walt Disney: One Man's Dream

and the 1989 broadcast of the opening of Disney-MGM Studios. Cronkite appeared and narrated Back To

Neverland a film about animation featuring Robin Williams and Disney’s Animators that was originally shown in

Disney-MGM Studios at Disney World. To promote TRON’s 1982 release, Cronkite recorded a segment about the film’s cutting-edge special effects for his science-related summer series Universe. (Best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] for 19 years, Cronkite was often cited as "the most trusted man in America.") [/FONT]​

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1938:

Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Golf Game is released. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Directed by Jack King, Donald needs silence to concentrate on his golf game, but his nephews (who have been pressed into duty as caddies) have noisy plans of their own[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]![/FONT]​

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1940:

Daisy Duck makes her first appearance in print in the

Donald Duck Sunday strip - drawn by Al Taliaferro.

1982:

Walt Disney World Eyes & Ears reports on a new resort -



[FONT=Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Cypress Point Lodge will be a medium-sized hotel facility, located on the south shore of Bay Lake near our Fort Wilderness Campground Resort. Encompassing 550 rooms and 50 log cabins on the beach, Cypress Point Lodge will offer a romantic notion of a turn-of-the-century hunting lodge secluded in a deep forest. Neither the trees nor the buildings dominate the entire area; but blend together in a natural harmony.. One can almost hear the crackling fireplace and feel the large wooden beams offer a haven of security and comfort.
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2009:

I[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]t is reported that The Walt Disney Company has gotten the green light from Chinese authorities to build one of its theme parks in Shanghai.
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1911:

Leonard Slye, better known as cowboy star Roy Rogers, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A singer, actor, and the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain, his voice can be heard in both Disney's 1948 Melody Time and Pecos Bill[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. Enormously popular throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Rogers was second only to Walt Disney in the amount of merchandising items bearing his name!
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1937:

Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Old Mill, directed by Wilfred Jackson, is released by RKO Radio Pictures. This is the first film to use the multiplane camera, a device invented by Ub Iwerks and the Disney staff, that adds realism to the animation. The special camera gives depth by using layers of backgrounds painted on glass. About an abandoned mill

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]which is now a home for wildlife, this short and the camera will both win Oscars.
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1990:

T[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Yacht Club Resort (the twin sister to the Beach Club Resort) opens at 1700 Epcot Resorts Blvd in Walt Disney World. Located just west of Epcot, the hotel is set around a 25-acre lake. The deluxe resort resembles the New England seaboard hotels of the late 1800s.
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1994:

OC Register reports that - "After ferrying 150 million passengers between

Tomorrowland and Fantasyland over the past 38 years, Disneyland’s Skyway will

make its last trip Wednesday." (Four days later the attraction - running since June 1956 - will

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2004:

The Disney/Pixar animated film The Incredibles opens in theaters nationwide. A

special midnight showing is held at Disney's El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. Written and directed by Brad Bird, the film stars an ensemble voice cast including Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Vowell, Spencer

Fox, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson and Elizabeth Peña

2006:

The first two preview shows of Finding Nemo - The Musical takes place at Animal Kingdom in Florida. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](After a soft-opening November 12, the show will officially open January 24, 2007.)
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11/6

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1914:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ctor Jonathan Harris, the voice of Manny in [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A Bug's Life[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], and Geri the Cleaner in [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Toy Story 2[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], is born Jonathan Charasuchin in The Bronx, New York. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]His Disney voice credits also include episodes of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Buzz Lightyear of Star Command[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Darkwing Duck[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. (TV fans know him best
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]as Dr. Zachary Smith on the classic 60s sci-fi series [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Lost in Space[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].) [/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1946:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney writes his annual birthday letter to his younger sister Ruth (who will turn
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]43 on December 6). [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The letter and its enclosed check is being sent earlier than usual because he is
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]leaving this day for the premiere of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Song of the South[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] in Atlanta, Georgia. Walt explains how after the premiere
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he'll be flying up to New York to board the Queen Elizabeth for a trip to England and Ireland. He'll be gathering
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]background material in Ireland for a new picture about leprechauns[/FONT]

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1987:​

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's Touchstone Pictures releases the comedy film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Hello Again[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] staring Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, and Corbin Bernsen[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2001:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney releases the animated [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]of Mouse[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], the live-action comedy [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Santa Who? [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](starring Leslie Nielsen) and the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]animated [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]all [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]on video and DVD.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney President and Chief Operating Officer Robert A. Iger announces that The
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Walt Disney Company has acquired The Baby Einstein Company, the award-winning creator of highly innovative media products, toys and books for babies and toddlers.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2004:​

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney World workers spend the morning cleaning seven miles
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]of Florida's Canaveral National Seashore. The beach cleanup, sponsored by the Ocean Conservatory and Keep Brevard Beautiful, involves more than 350 Disney employees wearing "volunt-EARS" T-shirts.[/FONT]​

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2006:

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney files plans for a project on the site of the Contemporary Resort's North Garden Wing at Walt Disney World. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](The project will be unveiled in September 2008 as Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort.)
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1903:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ry Barroso, Brazil's most successful songwriter in the first half of the 20th century, is born in Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Barroso's two best-known compositions are the sambas "Aquarela do Brasil" (better known as "Brazil"), written in 1939, and "Na Baixa do Sapateiro" (also known as simply "Bahia"), composed a year earlier. In August 1941, Walt Disney first met Barroso at a cocktail party given by the U.S. consulate at the hotel Glória in Rio de Janeiro. Walt later featured "Brazil" in his 1942 animated [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Saludos Amigos[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and "Bahia" in the 1944 sequel [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Three Caballeros[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1953:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]his week's issue of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Saturday Evening Post[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] features part 2 of the article
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]"The Amazing Story of Walt Disney" by Jack Alexander[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1962[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]i[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]sney's action adventure film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Legend of Lobo[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] is released. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Rex Allen, accompanied by the Sons Of The Pioneers, tells a tale about a crafty wolf named Lobo who tries to free his mate from a
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]group of hunters.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1966[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney is admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital on S. Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. The cancer has spread and sadly doctors believe Walt has between 6 months and 2 years to live. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Surgery will be performed the following day.)[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1972[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]C[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]hristopher Daniel Barnes, the voice of Prince Eric in Disney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Little
[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mermaid[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (at only 16 years of age), is born in Portland, Maine.[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] His voice credits also
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]include [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Cinderella II: Dreams Come True [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]and[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] Cinderella III: A Twist in Time[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (as Prince Charming). Widely
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]known for performing the voice of Spider-Man from 1994-1998, Barnes also played Greg Brady in the [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Brady
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Bunch[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] parody movies of the mid-1990s.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1999:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Wonderful World of Disney[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] airs "Annie"
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](a new television production of the classic musical).[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2003:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]nimation historian J[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ohn Canemaker appears at the Los Angeles County
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Museum of Art with a colorfully illustrated multimedia presentation: [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Art
[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]and Flair of Mary Blair[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], based on his new Disney Editions book. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]His lecture is
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]followed by a book signing and a rare 35mm screening of Disney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Alice in Wonderland[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], the 1951
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]cartoon feature principally art directed by Mary Blair[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2004:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Korea Times[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] reports the city of Seoul, South Korea, and the Walt Disney Company have been discussing plans to create an amusement park.

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2006:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney/Pixar's smash hit [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Cars[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] is released to DVD.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney announces that they are creating a video game studio - called Fall
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Line - to make titles exclusively for Nintendo machines in an attempt to
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]bring its animated characters to a wider audience.[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2009:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] sea of more than 400 Disney VoluntEARS help clear 1,080 pounds of trash
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]from the Brevard County coastline as part of the International Coastal Cleanup,
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]the world’s largest volunteer effort to improve the health of the ocean and
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]waterways. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Joined by friends and family, Disney VoluntEARS from Walt Disney World Resort, Disney Cruise
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Line and Walt Disney Imagineering help protect the environment and preserve the natural beauty of nearly four
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]miles of beach near the Disney Cruise Line terminal in Port Canaveral.[/FONT]​

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11/8

1872:

Legendary stage actress Lucille La Verne, the voice of both the Wicked Queen & her alter ego in Disney's 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is born in Tennessee. She was also the Disney artists' model for the old crone that the Queen transforms herself into in order to give Snow White the poisoned apple

1925:

Character actor Joe Flynn, the voice of Mr. Snoops in Disney's 1977

animated release The Rescuers, is born in Youngstown, Ohio.

His live-action credits include The Love Bug (1968) as Havershaw, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1970) as

Dean Higgins, The Barefoot Execuitve (1971) as Francis X. Wilbanks, The Million Dollar Duck (1971) as Finley

Hooper, Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1973) reprising his role of Dean Higgins, Superdad (1973) as Cyrus

Hershberger, and The Strongest Man in the World (1975) playing Dean Higgins for the third and final time. Flynn

was one of many celebrities who attended Disney World's official dedication in 1971. (TV fans will known him

for his comedic role of Captain Wallace "Leadbottom" Binghamton on the classic sitcom McHale's Navy[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)

1966:

Doctors at St. Joseph hospital in California perform surgery on Walt Disney. On this morning, surgeons find his left lung to be cancerous and remove it. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]His oversized lymph nodes are an indication that Walt does not have long to live. (After two weeks of post-operative care he will be released from the hospital.)[/FONT]
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1973:

Disney's 21st animated feature film Robin Hood is released

in theaters. The film features the voices of Brian Bedford (as Robin Hood-a fox), Phil Harris (as Little

John) and Andy Devine (as Friar Tuck-a badger). Some 350,000 drawings were made for the production,

with over 100,000 painted cels and 800 painted backgrounds. (It will earn an Academy Award nomination

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]for the song "Love" written by George Bruns and Floyd Huddleston.)
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1980:

Although running since September, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad has an official opening in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. A mine train roller coaster located in

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Frontierland, it is the second one of its kind (as a Big Thunder Mountain first opened in Disneyland in 1979).
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2002:

The 27th Annual Festival of the Masters (a 3-day showcase of art, culture and cuisine) kicks off in Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney.



Tokyo Disneyland (which now includes Tokyo DisneySea)

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]welcomes its 300-millionth visitor, Mrs. Yoko Kusunoki![/FONT]
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2004:

It is reported that The Incredibles - which opened in theaters on Friday November 5 - has taken $70.7 million in its first weekend in the U.S. (This beats Disney/Pixar's previous record of $70.3 million for Finding Nemo[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)[/FONT]​

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2005:

DuckTales Volume 1, a 3-disc box containing the first 27 episodes of the animated

TV series, is released to DVD. Also released to DVD is Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

Volume 1 Box Set.



President George W. Bush announces the recipients of the 2005 National Medal of

Arts. Among the ten winners is Disney Legend Ollie Johnston. He will be the first

animator to receive the award since its founding in 1985! (The medals will be presented November 10.)



It is reported that Walt Disney Co. has signed a 12-year marketing agreement with

technology giant Siemens AG that includes rights for Siemens to sponsor a number

of attractions at Walt Disney World. Siemens, one of the largest electronics and engineering

companies in the world, will have its brand on the Epcot icon, "SpaceShip Earth," the nighttime Epcot fireworks

show, "Illuminations: Reflections of Earth," as well as new attractions that will be incorporated into Innoventions.

2009:

John Lasseter (the mastermind behind Pixar classics like Toy Story and Cars) along with his wife and family are featured during an afternoon performance of Disneyland's "Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee!" along the banks of the Rivers of America. Disney randomly selects guests to participate in each performance by waving flags, playing musical instruments, or holding props. Lasseter, who is the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, is also the executive producer of the newest animated feature The Princess and the Frog,



A[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]lso at Disneyland, Stevie Wonder films a segment for the annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, performing the song, "That’s What Christmas Means to Me."[/FONT]​

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2010:

On this evening, The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at

Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the

Magic Kingdom both kick off for the first time this season at Walt Disney World​

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1914:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ctor Jonathan Harris, the voice of Manny in [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A Bug's Life[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], and Geri the Cleaner in [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Toy Story 2[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], is born Jonathan Charasuchin in The Bronx, New York. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]His Disney voice credits also include episodes of [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Buzz Lightyear of Star Command[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Darkwing Duck[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. (TV fans know him best
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]as Dr. Zachary Smith on the classic 60s sci-fi series [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Lost in Space[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].) [/FONT]​

Robot: "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!"

Dr Smith: "Just you be quiet, or I will remove your power pack!"

Great show, great character, wonderful character and voice actor. RIP.​

 

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11/10

1948:

Character actor Vincent Schiavelli, who appears in Disney's 1995 television

remake of Escape to Witch Mountain and the 1998 TV movie Bride of Boogedy, is

born in Brooklyn, New York. Often described as "the man with the sad eyes," film fans will know from

such features as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Night Shift, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1953:

Walt Disney's True-Life adventure feature The Living Desert is released to theaters. It is because of RKO's refusal to distribute this film that Disney sets up the Buena Vista Distribution Company. (The film, made for only about half a million dollars, will make $5 million during its original release and later win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature!) Directed by James Algar, The Living Desert features the work of cinematographer Paul Kenworthy (who will later lend his skills to the 1954 The Vanishing Prairie.)

Also released by Buena Vista is the animated Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, an

educational "Adventures in Music" short. A sequel to Melody, the first "Adventures in Music" cartoon,

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation of the evolution of 4 musical instruments over the ages:

the horn ("toot"), the flute ("whistle"), the guitar ("plunk"), and the drum ("boom"). Directed by Ward Kimball and

Charles A. Nichols, it is the first animated cartoon to be filmed and released in widescreen CinemaScope

1964:

Disney Legend Jimmie Dodd, best known as the MC of the popular 1950s Disney TV series, the Mickey Mouse Club, as well as the writer of its well-known theme song, "The Mickey Mouse Club March," passes away at age 54 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The heart and soul of the Mickey Mouse Club, Dodd often played his famous Mouse-guitar and sang self-composed songs containing positive messages for kids

1986:

Actor/comedian Josh Peck is born in New York City. Best known for his starring

role in the successful teen sitcom Drake & Josh, Disney fans know him as Robe from the 2001

live-action feature Max Keeble's Big Move[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

2003:

The Travel Channel airs Great Hotels - Disney's Grand Californian Hotel,

Disneyland Resort hosted by Samantha Brown for the first time​

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1925:
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Bard's Glendale Theater in Los Angeles, California previews Disney's Alice comedy
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film Alice on the Farm. (It will be released the following January.)
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Legendary comedian and actor Jonathan Winters is born in
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Dayton, Ohio. He appeared in the 1971 TV special The Grand Opening of Walt
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Disney World and starred in the 1977 Halloween Hall O' Fame. (Known for his madcap
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wildness on TV, the big screen and records, Winters' film credits include It's a Mad, Mad,
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Mad, Mad World and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. He even
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appeared in The Twilight Zone[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] episode "A Game of Pool" - playing a dramatic role!)[/FONT]​

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1937:
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The final animation is completed for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] - which is scheduled to open in a little more than a month![/FONT]​

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1946:
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The day before the premiere of Disney's Song of the South, a parade is held in
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Atlanta with Walt himself, the governor of Georgia, and William B. Hartsfield the
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mayor of Atlanta. There are bands, floats, and some of the characters from the film. A luncheon at the
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Capital Club and a tea at the Wren's Nest follows

1956:

Walt Disney appears as a mystery guest on the TV game show What's My Line?[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] Hosted by John Daly, it is one of the earliest successes of Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Productions.[/FONT]
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1971:
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Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. A combination of live-action and animation, it is based upon the books The Magic Bed ; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks by author Mary Norton. (The film will be released in North America on December 13, 1971[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)
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Actor David DeLuise is born to actor/comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur, in Burbank, California. He plays Jerry Russo on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].
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1988:

Ernest Saves Christmas - a Touchstone Pictures comedy film directed by John
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R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney - is released. It is the third film to feature Varney's
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character Ernest P. Worrell

1991:
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A new 90,000-square-foot convention center opened adjacent to Disney World's Contemporary Resort. The state-of-the-art center is connected by an enclosed second floor walkway to the original convention space in the main hotel.

1992:
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The Disney animated feature Aladdin - featuring the
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voice of Robin Williams and the song "Whole New World" - has its world premiere.
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About a street-smart young thief in the mythical city of Agrabah who meets and falls in love with the Sultan's
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beautiful daughter named Jasmine, it will become the highest-grossing animated film up to that time. (Aladdin
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]will win Academy Awards for Best Song - "A Whole New World" and Best Original Score.)
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1994:

The Santa Clause, released by Walt Disney Pictures & Hollywood Pictures and starring Tim Allen, debuts in theaters. A fantasy-comedy, Allen plays Scott Calvin, an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve - knocking him unconscious. When he and his young son Charlie finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and ... convince those he loves that he is indeed, Father Christmas.​

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1908:
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Pioneering animator Shamus Culhane is born in Ware, Massachusetts
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(although as a small child his family will move to Manhattan, New York).
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His most notable work for Disney includes the classic sequence with Pluto and the crab in Hawaiian Holiday and
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the dwarfs' "Heigh Ho" number in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Culhane is the only animator who worked
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on all of the first four animated feature cartoons in history: Disney's Snow White (1937) and Pinocchio (1940),
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for which he animated the fox and cat selling Pinocchio to the Pleasure Island coachman; Max Fleischer's
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Gulliver's Travels (1939) and Dave Fleischer's Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941).

1916:

Character actor Liam Dunn is born in New Jersey. His Disney credits include

The gy D.A., Gus, Herbie Rides Again, and The World's Greatest Athlete. (Mel Brooks'

fans will recognize him from the films Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Silent Movie[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)
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1943:

Character actor & playwright Wallace Shawn, the voice of Rex the Green
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Dinosaur in all three Toy Story films, is born in New York City. His vast Disney
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credits include A Goofy Movie (as the voice of Principal Mazur), The Haunted Mansion (playing the role of Ezra),
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (as Tarzan the Chimp), The Incredibles (as Gilbert Huph), Air Buddies (although a live-action film - supplying the voice of Billy), and Chicken Little [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](as Principal Fetchit).he is also known for movies charaters such as the evil Vizzini in the fairy tale comedy The Princess Bride (1987), and debate teacher Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995). also as
the Ferengi Grand Nagus Zek on Star Trek: Deep Space [/FONT]
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1946:

Walt Disney's Song of the South is released by RKO and debuts at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The film, based on the books by Joel Chandler Harris, is Walt's first major plunge into live-action filmmaking (although it also contains animated segments). The premiere is sponsored jointly by the Atlanta Junior League and the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. (The film & its songs will later provide the inspiration for the Splash Mountain attractions at Disney theme parks.)[/FONT]​

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1957:

D[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney stock is first listed on the New York Stock Exchange.[/FONT]​

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1982:
Actress Anne Hathaway, co-star of Disney's The Princess Dairies and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, is born in Brooklyn, New York. She
also appeared in the 2004 fairy-tale comedy Ella Enchanted (distributed by Miramax Films, the art-house/independent film division of The Walt Disney Company) as Ella of Frell and Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] as White Queen.

2007:
Walt Disney World ushers in the holiday season with this year's
debut of Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom.

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Also at the MK, a dazzling new lighting spectacle which transforms the iconic Cinderella Castle into a glimmering, shimmering ice palace, debuts. Over at Disney-MGM, The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights (presented by Sylvania) returns to light up The Streets of America Backlot, while Mickey's Jingle Jungle Parade steps off at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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11/13

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1850:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]S[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]cottish n[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ovelist, essayist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson is born in
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Edinburgh, Scotland. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Disney's 1960 live-action film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Kidnapped[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] was based on Stevenson's
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[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1886 classic adventure novel "Kidnapped." Stevenson's 1883 book "Treasure Island" (about pirates and buried
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]gold) was the inspiration for Disney's 2002 animated feature [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Treasure Planet[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. Also among his best-known written
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]works ... "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "The Ebb Tide." Ironically director Robert Stevenson
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]who directed [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Kidnapped[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and such other Disney films as [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mary Poppins[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]That Darn Cat[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Old Yeller[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], was a
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1906:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Her Disney credits include [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mary Poppins[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (as Ellen), [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Adventures of Bullwhip
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Griffin [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](as Miss Irene Chesney), [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Happiest Millionaire[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (as Mrs. Worth), and[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] The Aristocats[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (as the voice of Madame Adelaide Bonfamille - the owner of Duchess and her kittens). Fans of the classic TV sitcom [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Bewitched[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] may remember Baddeley as Samantha's beloved childhood nanny Elspeth.

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1940[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's 3rd feature film, [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Fantasia[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] premieres at New York's
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Broadway Theater (formerly known as the Colony where
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Steamboat Willie [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]debuted)[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. The film introduces stereophonic
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]sound to the motion picture via a special sound system
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]dubbed "Fantasound" - which literally vibrates the theater's
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]seats! In attendance at the gala premiere are socialites Mrs. Henry F. DuPont, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. (Although a triumphant premiere, [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Fantasia[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] will not be appreciated for many years ... until its re-release in the 1970s makes it a hit.)[/FONT]​

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1955[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ctress Whoopi Goldberg, the voice of Shenzi the Hyena in both Disney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Lion King[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Lion King 1 1/2[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], is born in New York City. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]She also starred in
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1984:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]onald Duck's 50th Birthday[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], a CBS television special is broadcast on
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Magical World of Disney[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee ________ Van and other special guests[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Sister Act[/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1988:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he television special [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mickey's 60th Birthday[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], combining live action/original
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]animation and library animation, airs on [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Magical World of Disney[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] on NBC[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1999:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney/Pixar's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Toy Story 2[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] premieres at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood,
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]California. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In attendance are Tim Allen (the voice of Buzz Lightyear), Tom Hanks (the voice of Woody), Riders in the Sky (performers of the "Woody Roundup" theme song), Estelle Harris (the voice of Mrs. Potato Head), Wayne
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Knight (the voice of Al), Robert Goulet (the singing voice of Wheezy) and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.[/FONT]​

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1916:
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Cartoonist/animator Bill Melendez is born José Cuauhtemoc Melendez in
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Hermosillo, Mexico. Known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series, he
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actually started his career at the Disney studio in 1937, drawing for Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, and Dumbo.

1925:
Actor Ed Asner, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Disney/Pixar animated Up,

is born in Kansas City, Missouri. His Disney TV credits include an episode of Hercules and
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the series Recess. An Emmy Award-winning film and television actor, Asner is best known for his TV role of
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Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
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1965:
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At 2:00 p.m., Walt and Roy Disney, accompanied by Governor Haydon Burns,
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speak to the press in the Egyptian Room of the Cherry Plaza Hotel in Orlando and
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officially launch the Disney World project in Florida. (Site preparation will begin in the fall of 1967
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and the park will open in October 1971, unfortunately five years after Walt's death.) Only days after this
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announcement, the price of land surrounding the property that the Disney organization purchased for supposedly
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$180 an acre - will shoot up to an amazing $80,000 per acre! As of this day, Disney planners have acquired about
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27,443 acres (or 43 square miles) at a cost of just about $5 million.

1986:
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A "re-premiere" for Song of the South is held in Atlanta, Georgia, to celebrate the
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film's 40th anniversary. By gubernatorial proclamation, the day of the premiere is declared [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]"Song of the South Day" in Georgia.[/FONT]​

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1987:
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Muppet creator Jim Henson is inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
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"Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" airs onThe Wonderful World of Disney​

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1989:

The Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated feature film, The Little Mermaid

(featuring the voice of Jodi Benson as Ariel) is released in Los Angeles,

California, and New York City. It is the first Disney animated feature in three decades based on a classic fairy tale since Sleeping Beauty[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. (It will be generally released 2 days later and go on to win 2 Academy Awards.)[/FONT]​

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2002:
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T[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Wilderness Lodge Villas (part of the Disney Vacation Club) opens adjacent to the Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World.[/FONT]
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11/16

1922:
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Actor Royal Dano, the voice of Abraham Lincoln for Disney's Hall
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of Presidents and Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln attractions, is
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born in New York City. (He first portrayed the famous president in "Mr. Lincoln," a
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1952 five-part TV episode on the educational series Omnibus.) Dano also appeared in
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Disney's 1983 live-action Something Wicked This Way Comes, playing the role of Tom Fury.

1965:

Walt Disney visits the Disney World site in Florida the day after the news conference in Orlando. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Among those accompanying Walt is Joe Potter, the former New York World's Fair executive and engineering/logistical planning genius, who has been hired to supervise the construction. Potter has the Herculean task of transforming 300 acres of land into the Magic Kingdom, while preserving the area's ecology and beauty[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

1976:

The Dapper Dans of Disney World - a barbershop singing group made up of Bub Thomas, Neel Tyree, Tom Howe, Buddy Seeberg, and ________ Kneeland - perform on the Diamond Horseshoe stage. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The show is put together by the group to show Disney World management the various routines and talents (not normally performed on Main Street) they can offer convention shows .


2003:
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Toon Disney and Disney Channel celebrate Mickey & Minnie's upcoming 75th
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birthday with a House of Mouse marathon.
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After a four-month run on Broadway, Toni Braxton gives her final performance
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as the star of Disney's Aida.
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The Burbank Historical Society officially dedicates a new, permanent exhibit
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]devoted to the Walt Disney Studios (for the company's 80th anniversary).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2004:

Stitch's Great Escape! is officially opened at Walt Disney World's Magic

Kingdom with a short ceremony held in front of Cinderella's Castle - which is

covered with Stitch toilet papers! A "theater-in-the-round" experience based on the 2002

animated feature Lilo & Stitch, it is the 4th attraction to occupy the site in Tomorrowland. Stitch's Great Escape!

includes much of the technology and sets from its predecessor, the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.



Also debuting in Florida is Turtle Talk with Crush, a new Epcot attraction. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering in collaboration with Pixar, the attraction (which features Crush - a sea turtle from Finding Nemo[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]) is located in Future World.

2007:

At Ten Star Ranch in Dubois, Indiana, Mickey Mouse (dressed as a Pilgrim) introduces the two real-life turkeys who will receive presidential pardons from U.S. President George W. Bush at The White House on Tuesday, November 20 at the 60th annual National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation.

(Following their presidential pardons, the turkeys will join Super Bowl stars and other celebrities by "Going to Disney World" for a celebratory parade in their honor on Thanksgiving Day!)



It is reported that Tim Burton has signed a two-picture deal with Disney to direct and produce 3-D movies of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and a remake of Burton's own Frankenweenie. The "Alice" adaptation (which begins filming in 2008) will be a combination of live-action and performance capture. Frankenweenie will be shot in stop-motion animation.



Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 70th Anniversary Event takes place at Disney’s California Adventure Park. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Snow White will actually turn 70 on December 21.)

2009:

Singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi visits Disney’s

Hollywood Studios theme park at Walt Disney World.



The Victorian gingerbread house at Disney’s Grand

Floridian Resort & Spa officially opens for the season. Six pastry chefs used 1,050

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]pounds of honey to "cook up" the 16-foot high gingerbread house!
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1907:
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Animator & Disney Legend Les Clark, the first of Walt's "Nine Old Men,"
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is born in Ogden, Utah. Between 1927-1975 he will work on such Disney classics as
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Steamboat Willie (the only one of the Nine to work on the origins of Mickey Mouse with Ub Iwerks
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- his mentor), The Skeleton Dance, Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, and Peter Pan. Unlike
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most of the other Nine Old Men, Clark began his career with no art background - but advanced by
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pure determination and hard work!

1941:
Disney's fourth animated feature Dumbo is released in Brazil.

1956:
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The first of eight installments titled "My Dad, Walt Disney," by Diane Disney
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Miller as told to Pete Martin (a "celebrity friendly" writer) appears in the
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Saturday Evening Post (Vol. 229 Issue 20). The Saturday Evening Post had
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first approached Walt with the proposal to have him write (with the assistance of Martin) his biography in serial form back in 1950. They offered Walt $150,000. At the time, Walt was deeply involved in building Disneyland but
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wanted to help his daughter Diane and her husband Ron get a house. Walt had no money to give them because everything was tied up in his new theme park. So Walt made a counter-proposal that he would be interviewed but that Diane would be credited as the author so that she would receive the money.

1963:

Another Disney plane tour of the eastern United States - to search for an ideal location for a new Disney park - commences. Walt Disney, Buzz Price and other company officials such as Joe Fowler, Donn Tatum and Card Walker leave on this Sunday aboard a private Grumman turboprop. The trip will include stops in St. Louis, Niagara Falls, the Washington, D.C. area, and finally Florida.
1973:

I[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]n an hour-long televised question-and-answer session held at Disney World's Contemporary Resort, U.S. President Richard Nixon declares "I am not a crook." In front of 400 Associated Press managing editors, Nixon defends his record in the Watergate scandal. He has flown to Orlando this evening from his Key Biscayne, Florida home for this much-heralded event. (It will be a defining moment of Nixon's career and the start of his presidency's downward spiral.)

1989:
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Disney's The Little Mermaid is generally released in theaters. Loosely based upon the
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Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, it is the last Disney feature film to use the traditional hand-painted cel
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method of animation. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, a mermaid princess named Ariel (voiced by
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Jodi Benson) makes a faustian bargain with an unscrupulous seahag in order to meet a human prince named
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Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes) who lives on land.
1997:

Cruise Terminal 8, the Disney Cruise Line Terminal, is dedicated in Florida.
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The $27 million, 70,000-square-foot facility is Port Canaveral's third
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ultra-modern mega-ship terminal, and will be the exclusive home of Disney
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Cruise Line's first two ships, the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder
2004:

Disney launches an all-new Muppets Web site. The site, which debuts on this
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day, features games, biographies of the Muppet characters, screensavers and
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news about current projects, including the new film The Muppets Wonderful
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Wizard of Oz, slated to air on ABC-TV next May. (The Walt Disney Company
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purchased the Muppets in April 2004.)
2008:

Disney Legends Richard and Robert Sherman, the songwriting team behind Mary Poppins, "It's a Small World", Bedknobs and Broomsticks[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and many other Disney favorites, receive National Medals of the Arts from President and Mrs. Bush at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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1928:

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Mickey Mouse stars in Steamboat Willie, the first commercially

successful animated cartoon to use synchronized sound. Disney's third Mickey short (but the

first with sound) debuts as a sneak preview at Universal's Colony Theatre - located at Broadway & 53rd Street in New York City. It is shown before the feature film Gang War. Steamboat Willie is co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and features the first appearance of Minnie Mouse. It is animated by Ub Iwerks, Wilfred Jackson and ________ Lundy. The short also features the work of inbetween artist Les Clark (who will go on to be one of "Walt's Nine Old Men"). Walt himself supplies the voices for all the characters - although there isn't any real spoken dialogue just whistling, grunts, laughter and other vocal sounds. Walt and his music director Carl Stalling sit nervously at the rear of the theater to gage the audience's reaction. To their delight, the Colony echoes with laughs and giggles throughout the short! Steamboat Willie[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] will be shown every night for 2 weeks. (Despite the fact that this is not the first Mickey cartoon made or released, it is still considered Mickey Mouse's true debut ... and birthday!)[/FONT]​

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1929:

W[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney sends his first 6 Mickey Mouse comic strips to King Features.
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1932:
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Walt Disney is given an honorary Oscar "for the creation of Mickey Mouse" by
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the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the 5th Annual Academy
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Awards (held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles). It is only the second honorary Oscar
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ever awarded by the Academy (the first one went to Charlie Chaplin). Disney's Flowers and Trees takes home the
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Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoon (beating out Mickey's Orphans). Although nominated for Achievement in
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Sound, Recording - Walt Disney Productions is edged out by Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department.
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Disney's Parade of Academy Award Nominees, an animated color short made
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especially for this day's ceremony is screened. It features caricatures of those nominated in the
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Best Actor and Best Actress categories. The film marks Mickey Mouse's first on screen appearance in color!

1962:
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At Disneyland, the Swiss Family Treehouse attraction opens in Adventureland.
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The opening ceremony is hosted by Walt Disney, Hayley Mills (star of The Parent Trap and Pollyana),
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John Mills (Hayley's father and star of Swiss Family Robinson), and Kevin Corcoran (who appears in both
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Pollyana and Swiss Family Robinson[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]).

1978:
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A commemorative plaque is installed at the Broadway Theater - site of the former Colony Theater - at 1681 Broadway (W. 53rd St.) in New York City, marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Disney's Steamboat Willie.
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York City holds a birthday party for Mickey Mouse, showing Steamboat Willie at noon, fifty years after its first public debut!
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Over on the west coast, in honor of his 50th anniversary, Mickey
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becomes the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Walk of Fame. The star is located on 6925 Hollywood Blvd.[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1988:

Mickey’s birthday is celebrated as 5,500 underprivileged children from
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across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan are treated to a three-day
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]visit to Disneyland to assist Mickey in celebrating his day

1995:
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A lottery to determine who will have the opportunity to buy the first 474
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houses and apartments in Disney's new Florida community Celebration, is held.

2006:

T[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he five-thousand square foot interactive exhibit "Too Small to See" opens at Epcot's Innoventions. Developed by Cornell University and supported by the National Science Foundation, the exhibit surrounds visitors with things at the atomic scale and exposes them to some important concepts in nanotechnology.
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1905:
Actress Eleanor Audley, the voices of Maleficent in Disney's 1959 Sleeping
Beauty and Lady Tremaine in the 1950 Cinderella, is born in New York
City. She is also the original voice of Madame Leota for the Haunted Mansion attractions. (Fans of the 1960s sitcom Green Acres may remember Audley for her role of Eunice, Oliver's mother!
1919:
Character actor Alan Young is born in England. He is the voice of Scrooge McDuck for the
Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas, The House of Mouse, DuckTales, and various other Disney video
releases. Young also appears in the 1978 live-action feature The Cat From Outer Space as Dr. Wenger and is
the voice of Hiram Flaversham for The Great Mouse Detective. (TV fans may recognize him as Wilbur Post on
the classic sitcom Mister Ed.
1962:
Academy Award-winning actress, director & producer Jodie Foster is born in Los
Angeles, California. Her early 1970s Disney credits include the live-action Candleshoe as Casey, the original version of Freaky Friday as Annabel Andrews, One Little Indian as Martha, and Napoleon and Samantha
(Foster's very first appearance in a feature film) as Samantha. (First acting in commercials at age 3, Foster's first significant role was in the 1976 film Taxi Driver.)
1971:
Walt Disney World's new Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground (located at 4510 North Fort Wilderness Trail) opens in Florida
1990:
Disney World's Beach Club Resort (located at 1800 Epcot
Resorts Blvd) opens. This deluxe Disney property takes after
a luxurious Victorian Cape Cod Resort and features Stormalong Bay (an enormous swimming pool). Also debuting in the hotel is the Atlantic Wear and Wardrobe Emporium Shop
1999:
FastPass is first used in Disneyland for It's a Small World.
2008:
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts breaks ground for its first family
destination resort in Hawaii with a traditional Hawaiian blessing ceremony on its 21-acre oceanfront property, located at the Ko Olina Resort & Marina development on the western side of O'ahu. Scheduled to open in 2011, plans include 350 hotel rooms and 480 Disney Vacation Club timeshare villas.

 

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1940:
Singer Tony Butala is born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Known as the lead singer for the vocal group The Lettermen since 1958, as a youngster he supplied the voice of Slightley - one of the Lost Boys in Disney's 1953 Peter Pan.
1946:
A press screening for Disney's Song of the South takes place in New York
1948:
Samuel E. Wright, the voice of Sebastian for Disney's 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid, is born in Camden, South Carolina. The original lead actor for Mufasa in The Lion King, the Broadway version of Disney's classic animated feature, Wright also provided the voice of Kron for Disney's Dinosaur.
1963:
Disney's live-action feature film The Incredible Journey (the story of 3 pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation) is generally released.

Actress Ming-Na, the speaking voice of Mulan in both Mulan and Mulan II, is born in Coloane Island, Macau, China.
1998:
Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life is generally released. The second full-length computer-animated feature produced by the partnership of Disney and Pixar Studios, it features an all-star voice cast
including Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Denis Leary, David Hyde Pierce, Brad Garrett, Kevin Spacey, Phyllis Diller, John Ratzenberger, and Roddy McDowall. Directed by John Lasseter, the plot of the film is loosely based on Aesop's fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper.
2007:
Walt Disney Records releases the soundtrack to the new animated/live-action movie musical, Enchanted. The recording features songs by Academy Award Winners Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz with original score by Menken. Included among the 15 tracks is the song "Ever Ever After" sung by Carrie Underwood. It is the only original song in the film not sung onscreen. (Enchanted will open in theaters the next day.)
Also released is the 6-disc set High School Musical Hits Collection featuring
5 CDS & 1 DVD.

Scribner (a division of Simon & Schuster) releases the book Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin. A memoir of his life, the comic-turned-actor/director describes his young years selling guidebooks at the newly-opened Disneyland. In the decade that followed, Martin worked in Disney's magic shop, print shop, and theater!