this day in disney history

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7/8 and fact for the day

Disneyland's Flying Saucers attraction of the early 1960s was
not technologically perfect and was constantly breaking down.
After several years it was closed.
2012:
Ernest Borgnine, an actor of television and film with a career spanning more than six decades, passes away at age 95 in California. He played the role of Harry Booth in Disney's 1979 science fiction film The Black Hole. (Currently the voice of Mermaid Man on the animated series SpongeBob
SquarePants, Borgnine's film credits include The Poseidon Adventure, Ice Station Zebra, The Dirty Dozen, and
Marty - for which he won an Academy Award. Fans of classic TV will remember him as the star of McHale's Navy.)

 

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7/9 and fact for the day
Pianist Richard Carpenter andguitarist John Bettis performed music
at Coke Corner on Disneyland’s MainStreet U.S.A. during the summer of
1967. Because they routinelydeviated from the selections of turn-
of-the-century tunes they were askedto perform ... the pair were sacked
after four months. Richard went onto have great success with his sister
Karen - as The Carpenters. Many oftheir biggest hits were written by
Richard and John Bettis!

 

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7/10 and fact for the day

"We're gonna kick

ourselves for not buying

everything within a radiusof ten miles around here."-Walt Disney (after theopening of Disneyland)

 

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7/11 and fact for the day

The street lamps on Disneyland's
Main Street USA are approximately
100 years old.
2011:
Fans of Disney’s Phineas and Ferb in New York City’s Times Square are treated to a
brilliantly fun kickoff to the cross-country tour of Perry the Platy-bus. The event includes
singing, dancing, free t-shirts, and four members of the show’s cast and crew. Perry the Platy-bus, based on the
pet/secret agent Perry the Platypus from the show, is making its way from New York to San Diego, where it will
arrive at Comic-Con next week to showcase the upcoming TV movie Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension.

 

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7/12 and fact for the day

Disneyland uses over
200,000 light bulbs
per year!

2011:
The Disneyana Fan Club begins its annual 5-day convention at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden Grove, California.
It is reported that Jiko — The Cooking Place at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge has been named to Wine Enthusiast magazine's Top 100 best in wine and fine dining in the country. The Jiko wine list features one of the largest selections of South African vintages in North America.
2012:
Comic-Con International 2012 kicks off at the San Diego Convention Center in San
Diego, California. To help promote Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, a black & white stop-motion animated
feature film, Disney and HGTV turns the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter lawn into a 3,500 square-foot
HGTV Electrifying Garden. The exhibit showcases the beauty of black and white with more than 20 dark plants
growing amid low-lying fog, pet tombstones and other striking oddities in the pet cemetery-themed garden.
Disney also hosts a Q&A panel featuring the imaginative director of Frankenweenie Tim Burton. Presented by
Disney, Frankenweenie will be released in U.S. theaters on October 5, 2012.

 

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7/13 and fact for the day
The longest lines at the
1964-1965 World's Fair (in New York City) were for the 4 attractions created by Disney. Walt took some of the attractions and elements of others to his Anaheim park when the Fair closed.

 

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7/14 and fact for the day

31-year-old actress named
Joann Killingsworth was Disneyland's very first Snow White. She was a part-time sales clerk at the Neiman-Marcus department store in Newport Beach, California when she was found through a Disney nationwide search!

2011:
Disneyland Paris celebrates Bastille Day with colorful parades and spectacular air displays. Known in France as Fête Nationale, Bastille Day officially commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, which was held on the one-year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, a Parisian prison that at the time housed only a handful of inmates but which had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.

 

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7/15 and fact for the day

The Carpenters official video for their re-make of "Please​

Mr. Postman" (from the 1975 album From the Top) was shot​

at Disneyland. Mickey Mouse even appears mailing a letter​

on Disneyland's Main Street!​

2011:
PrankStars, a hidden camera/reality series, premieres on Disney Channel. Hosted by Mitchel Musso, the series involves children and teenagers set up by their friends and family to meet their favorite stars in "unpredictable and humorous" settings.

Winnie the Pooh, a new animated film, is released by Walt Disney

Pictures. Winnie the Pooh sets out to find some honey, but when he misinterprets a
note from Christopher Robin, Pooh convinces Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo,
and Eeyore that their young friend has been captured by a creature named "Backson"!
Inspired by the stories of A. A. Milne, the film is a continuation of Disney's Winnie the
Pooh franchise, and marks the first time a Pooh film has hit theaters since the 2005
Pooh's Heffalump Movie. Burny Mattinson, a Disney veteran who worked as the key
animator on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, served as lead storyboard artist for the
film. Winnie the Pooh is preceded by an animated short called The Ballad of
Nessie about a friendly Loch Ness Monster named Nessie and how she and her

best friend MacQuack, the rubber duck, came to live in the moor they now call home​

Winnie the Pooh voice cast:​

Jim Cummings - Pooh & Tigger​

Tom Kenny - Rabbit​

Craig Ferguson - Owl​

Travis Oates - Piglet​

Bud Luckey - Eeyore​

Jack Boulter - Christopher Robin​

Kristen Anderson-Lopez - Kanga​

Wyatt Dean Hall - Roo​

John Cleese - Narrator​

 

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7/16 and fact for the day


Actor Don DeFore (best known from the TV sereis Hazel) and his brother Verne were the only sole proprietors ever permitted by Walt Disney and Disneyland to operate an independent business and restaurant inside Disneyland. From 1957
to 1961, they operated Don DeFore's
Silver Banjo Barbecue
restaurant in Frontierland.
2011:
Disney's Animal Kingdom celebrates the hatching of a female lesser flamingo, the first lesser flamingo to be hatched at the Florida park. The egg was laid on June 19 in a habitat near The Tree of Life.

 

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7/17 and fact for the day
From groundbreaking to opening day,
the original Disneyland was built in just
365 days.

2012:
Disney characters fill Town Square, balloons in hand, to sing "Happy Birthday
To You" with Disneyland park guests on the park's 57th anniversary.

 

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7/18 and fact for the day
Actor & Disney fan John Stamos
was the winning Ebay bidder
for the galvanized steel
Disneyland sign that stood
in front of the park from
1989 to 1999. He paid
$30,700 for the marquee.

2011:
Tokyo Disney Resort's $22 million Jasmine's Flying Carpets attraction opens at Tokyo DisneySea. Based on Disney's 1992 animated movie Aladdin, Jasmine's Flying Carpets is a clone of the Magic Carpets of Aladdin ride at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

 

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7/19 and fact for the day
Most of Jack Wagner's Disney recordings were made at his own
house where he had a recording studio (which was installed by
Disney in the 1970s). A voiceover booth in his home was
connected to Studio D at Disneyland in Anaheim. At the
time, Jack's home in Southern California was one of the first to
use a direct audio link from a remote recording
studio!

2011:
Cars 2 star Lightning McQueen joins Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for the first time.

Buena Vista Records releases the soundtrack for Captain America: The First Avenger on the day the film (distributed by Paramount Pictures) has its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. The soundtrack includes the original score by Alan Silvestri, as well as an original song titled "Star Spangled Man" written by Alan Menken (music) and David Zippel (lyrics). (The film will be screened two days later at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con and be generally released in North America July 22.)

 

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7/20 and fact for the day

From the Earth to the Moon,
the Space Mountain attraction
in Disneyland Paris, was built
by coaster designers Vekoma
(who also designed
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster).

 

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7/21 and fact for the day
Disneyland replaced individual ride tickets (in use since 1955) with its
new passports (single admission price to the park)
in 1982.

2011:
Walt Disney Imagineers and various crews working on the construction of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort hold a "topping out" ceremony at Walt Disney World. A tradition in the construction and engineering fields, it takes place when the highest piece of steel is placed on a building’s frame. Today's ceremony takes place atop a wing of the resort that will be themed after The Lion King. Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, which will bring to life famous Disney and Disney•Pixar films, is set to open in early Summer 2012.

 

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7/22 and fact for the day
At 199 feet,
The Twilight Zone
Tower of Terror is the second tallest attraction on Walt Disney World property!

 

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7/23 and fact for the day
Mickey Mouse (playing the piano)
was first added to
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum,
London in 1930.
2012:
Typhoon Vicente shuts down Hong Kong Disneyland early. May through September is
peak typhoon season for areas in East Asia, including Hong Kong and Japan

 

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7/24 and fact for the day

Disneyland premiered its first fireworks presentation in​

1956. The show was actually created by hand - with​

employees touching off the fuses with a flare! (A few​

years later, technology enabled fireworksto be​

launched electronically and synchronized with a​

soundtrack.)​

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7/25 and fact for the day
The tradition of Disney topiaries began in 1966 when Disneyland
horticulturists sculptured larger-than-lifesize characters
in Fantasyland, in particular surrounding the It's a Small World attraction. At Disney World, the process began 3 years before the resort’s 1971 opening and is still evolving today at the WDW Nursery!

 

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7/26 and fact for the day


Disneyland's Germanic-style Sleeping Beauty castle
was designed by Disney Imagineer Herb Ryman and inspired, in part, by Neuschwanstein
Castle in Bavaria.

 

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7/27 and fact for the day

Disneyland Upper Deck
Preview Series trading cards were released in 1991. They
featured photos from Disneyland along with the
fab five Disney characters
dressed in their favorite sports gear.

2011:
Jennings Osborne, the creator of the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights,
passes away at the age of 67 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Known as the man with the dazzling
lights outside his home in Arkansas and each year at Christmas time at Disney World, Osborne was a successful
business man and self-made millionaire who started a medical research facility with his wife in 1968. (A
microbiologist by training, he opened a prescription drug testing laboratory that grew to become one of the premier
human-trial research facilities in the industry.) A holiday tradition at WDW, Osborne first lit up Residential Street at
Disney-MGM Studios (today known as Disney's Hollywood Studios) back in November 1995.