this day in disney history

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1918:

Virginia Davis, Walt Disney's first human star, is born in Kansas City, Missouri. She begann working full-time for Walt in the

summer of 1924 and appeared in the first 13 titles of his live action/animated Alice Comedies. Davis was named a Disney Legend in 1998[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

1932:
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A Florentine publisher named G. Nerbini launches a weekly magazine called Topolino (which means “mouse” in Italian). [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]This Italian version of Mickey Mouse is badly drawn - but still recognizable to fans.

1936:

W[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney and his wife gain a second daughter when they adopt a baby girl named Sharon Mae.

1947:
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Actor Tim Matheson, who portrays Captain Braddock in Epcot's Body Wars attraction and Private Jeff Reed in the 1979 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, is born in Glendale, California. (Fans of Animal House[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] will always remember Matheson as Otter!)

1957:

Leigh Woolfenden, of Phoenix, Arizona becomes the ten-millionth guest to enter Disneyland!



A New Year's Eve party is held for the first time in Disneyland. The event draws 7,500 people

1971:

The very first Magic Kingdom New Year's Eve Party is held at Walt Disney World, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tickets ($7.50 in advance and $9.00 night of the party) include admission, entertainment, hats & noisemakers.

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Meanwhile singer Patti Page and dixieland bandleader and vocalist Bob Crosby star in the Contemporary Hotel's New Year’s Party.

1980:

A new record-setting 92,969 guests visit Walt Disney World

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]on this final day of the year!

1990:

D[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]evo and the Village People head the Pleasure Island lineup on New Year’s Eve.

1995:
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The World of Motion Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot closes. This sleek, circular structure
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housed one of Disney's largest collections of Audio-Animatronic figures (188) set in 24 scenes. Each one depicted
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]the progression of transportation and society through the ages. (It will be replaced with Test Track.)

1998:

The Teen Idol Tour - starring Bobby Sherman, Davy Jones, and Peter Noone - comes to Disney-MGM Studios for 2 evening performances. Earlier in the afternoon Sherman attends a special luncheon for fans at the Grand Floridian Convention Center.



Meanwhile over at Pleasure Island, a concert featuring Huey Lewis & The News, Sister Hazel, and Rick Springfield takes place.



Disney's internal staff newsletter Eyes and Ears[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] announces that Epcot's Horizons will close to guests in nine days.

1999:
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Disney's Fantasia 2000 is generally released in the U.S.
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C[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]heap Trick rocks Disney-MGM Studios.

2002:

Terror of Tower's new random drop sequence officially debuts

at Disney-MGM Studios. It is the fourth show enhancement since the

attraction first opened in 1994.



AT&T's sponsorship of Epcot's Spaceship Earth ends.



The B-52's, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and Chris Botti rock Downtown Disney Pleasure Island, Florida.



Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] airs segments from Walt Disney World Resort.

2009:

Marvel shareholders approve the acquisition of Marvel by the Walt

Disney Company. Disney now owns the rights to over 5,000 super heroes, villains, and

general comic book characters.



Jump-swing specialists Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ring in the New Year with a

performance at Disney Hall in Downtown Los Angeles. (This past September, the

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]band performed at Epcot during the International Food and Wine Festival.)
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1888:
Elias Disney (an Irish Canadian) and Flora Call (a German American) are married in Acron, Florida - a town in eastern Lake County. They will later move to Chicago, Illinois and in 1901 Flora will give birth to their 4th son Walter. (Although no longer in existence - Acron was located 40 miles due north of where Walt Disney World stands today!)
1901:
Disney Legend Grace Bailey is born Elizabeth Grace Randall in Willoughby,
Ohio. In 1932 she will begin working for the Disney Studios in the Ink and Paint department. Bailey will work her way up through the ranks of the department from painting supervisor to inking supervisor - where she will train new artists to ink the animators' drawings. In 1954, she will be selected as head of the entire Ink and Paint department, a position she will hold until her retirement in 1972.
1938:
The Tournament of Roses Parade takes place in Pasadena, California. This year's theme is Playland Fantasies. Coming immediately on the heels of the film's December 1937 premiere is a parade float featuring Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
1943:
Disney's anti-Nazi propaganda piece Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland) is released. Donald Duck has a nightmare that he is living in Nazi Germany, envisioning bayonet discipline, starvation, hard work on the munitions assembly line, and "heiling Hitler." He awakens to find himself in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and glad to be a U.S. citizen. Directed by Jack Kinney, it will win the 1943 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and be voted #22 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time!
1955:
The publication McCalls features an article on Disneyland. Readers are informed that - "This July, Walt Disney will realize a lifelong dream, when the fabulous wonderland he is raising out of the dust of a 160-acre tract in the heart of California's orange-growing country opens to the public."

The 66th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade kicks off in California.
Debuting is the very first Disneyland themed float with 7,000 pink roses (although Disney
had a Snow White float in the 1938 parade). Sponsored by Helms Bakery (a notable
industrial bakery of Southern California) the Disneyland float features Disney
characters and attractions from the not-yet-opened Anaheim park. Appearing in the parade on this rainy day
is the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a Dixieland jazz band made up of Disney Studio employees.
1966:
Walt Disney serves as Grand Marshal of the Tournament of the Roses
Parade in Pasadena, California. He and Mickey Mouse (portrayed by Paul Castle) ride together in a white Chrysler Imperial. Sitting curbside with his parents watching the parade is a young John Lasseter - future Jungle Cruise ride operator and Toy Story filmmaker! Also sitting curbside is the Burke family - watching their very first Rose Parade. When Walt's vehicle stops to make a corner turn, teen Pat Burke runs up and shakes Mr. Disney's hand. Six years later Pat will begin work at WED ... becoming one of Disney's top Imagineers!
1977:
Bob Allen - originally a ride operator at Disneyland in 1955 - is named vice president of Walt Disney World. He will be inducted a Disney Legend in 1996
1978:
Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade makes a rare appearance outisde of a
theme park, when it entertains fans during the halftime show of the annual
Orange Bowl college football game in Miami, Florida.
1995:
At Epcot, Symbiosis (the last of the three original attractions in The Land pavilion) closes. Symbiosis was a cinematic presentation that discussed both the positive and negative aspects of human relationship with the land. (It will re-open a few weeks later as Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable.)
2000:
Walt Disney's nephew Roy serves as Grand Marshal of the
Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.

Disney's Fantasia/2000 is generally released.
2001:
Rip Van Winkles, a landmark motel near Disneyland in California, closes its doors after a half century in business. The motel will be destroyed sometime later in the year to make way for Pointe Anaheim, a roughly $545 million retail-and-hotel complex that will front Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue. The Rip Van Winkles deal, a long-term land lease, destroys one of the last mom-and-pop motels that have housed Disney visitors, convention-goers and other guests for five decades.

The Villas at Wilderness Lodge, a Disney Vacation Club Resort property, opens in Walt Disney World.
2004:
The Disneyland Resort presents a parade float inspired by the park's new attraction "The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror," at the 115th Rose Parade in California. Standing at nearly 100 feet, "A Sudden Drop in Pitch" is the tallest float in Rose Parade history.
2009:
At 7:31 a.m., Andrew DaCosta (from Seattle, Washington), becomes the first person in the nation to receive free admission to a Disney theme park on his birthday as part of Disney’s “What Will You Celebrate?” campaign.
DaCosta, who turns 49 today, is visiting Disney World's Magic Kingdom with his wife and two children.
2010:
Disney Parks kicks off "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day," a national program designed
to boost philanthropic outreach. The program has been created to inspire 1 million people to lend a
helping hand and give back to communities in need. In return for their volunteer service, Disney will award these 1
million people with a free one-day admission ticket to a Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort theme park.the promotion ended just 10 weeks after it started because it had reach 1,000,000 already

 

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1898:
Animator, story director, writer & Disney Legend D ick Huemer
is born in New York City. He will first begin his career in animation at the Raoul Barré cartoon studio in 1916, before joining the Fleischer Studio in 1923 where he will develop the Koko clown character. Later he will move to Hollywood as an animator and director for the Charles Mintz studio, and then to the Disney Studio, where he will remain for the duration of his career. His vast Disney credits will include The Wise Little Hen, The Reluctant Dragon, Peter and the Wolf, Dumbo, Fantasia, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom and Alice in Wonderland.
1937:
Disney's Mickey Mouse film The Worm Turns - featuring the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey and Billy Bletcher as the dog catcher - is released.
1977:
At Disneyland's Frontierland, the Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland attraction closes. (It will later be replaced by Big Thunder Mountain.)
1984:
The Astuter Computer Revue, a show in EPCOT Center's CommunCore East, closes. The attraction took place on a second-floor terraced theater that overlooked a large room housing some of the computers used to operate the park. It was hosted by a projected host who sang and danced his way across computer banks in the foreground of the room in an attempt to explain the role of computers at Walt Disney World. The Astuter Computer Revue will be the first attraction ever to be removed from EPCOT. It will be replaced in February 1984 by Backstage Magic.
1996:
Today is World of Motion's final day of operation at Epcot. An opening day
attraction, visitors traveled on Omniover vehicles through humorous technology-themed scenes. (Test Track will eventually take its place.)
2001:
Disney unveils its Grand Californian Hotel, offering a few hundred guests a preview of the high-end rooms and service the company hopes will transform the updated Anaheim vacation spot. The hotel is the first in the U.S. to be located inside a Disney theme park. The Grand Californian Hotel features 2 full-service restaurants (Storytellers Cafe & Napa Rose) and a snack bar (Whitewater Snacks). Although its grand opening will be in February, the first paying guests are welcomed today.
2006:
In observance with the Tournament of Roses “Never on Sunday”
tradition, the 117th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California takes
place on a Monday. Disney takes part in the event with a float
featuring recreations of all 5 castles from each of its theme parks
2008:
Disney Legend & Imagineer Joyce Carlson passes away in Florida. She is 84. Retired since February 2000, Carlson helped create the original It's A Small World attraction (for the 1964-65 World's Fair & later for its Disneyland refitting). She also helped create a new version of the attraction for Disney World in 1971 and Tokyo Disneyland in 1983.
"I always wanted to be in the creative end and I got my dream." -Joyce Carlson
Sadly on this same day, Brice Harvey Mack, who painted backgrounds for such classic Disney features as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, passes away in Hollywood, California at the age of 90. Spanning the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, Mack’s career at Disney also included work on Fantasia, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Lady and the Tramp, in addition to the Oscar-winning 1942 short film Lend a Paw. Mack also worked as a writer in the story department at Disney and created illustrations for children’s books based on the studio’s films.
2010:
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs a concert of symphonic arrangements
from the Walt Disney Studio archives at Powell Symphony Hall in Grand Center. The
concert is synchronized with images from such Disney classics as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary
Poppins and Tarzan.

It is reported that The United Way of Palm Beach County, Florida is offering a
program in which volunteers can earn a day at a Disney park.

Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram visits the Disneyland Resort. (Later that week, his
team the Alabama Crimson Tide will win college football's national championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.)

 

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1916:
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Artist Lou Debney is born. He joined the Disney Studios at age 17 and began his career
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in the Cutting Department. Debney soon become assistant director on Snow White and the
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Seven Dwarfs, and worked on most of the sequences directed by Ben Sharpsteen. His Disney
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credits also include all of the Goofy shorts (between 1939-1943), producer of Mickey
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Mouse Club and Zorro, and production coordinator on The Wonderful World of Color. (Lou Debney is the
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father of award-winning composer John Debney - known to Disney fans for his work on such features as
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1931:
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A letter (dated January 3) is sent to animator 'Grimm' Natwick in New York City from
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the Walt Disney Studio in Hollywood, California. Written by Roy Disney on behalf of Walt, it
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offers Natwick a position at the studio. (Roy had traveled to New York City earlier to meet Natwick in an attempt
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]to persuade him to move to the west coast. Natwick will finally work for Disney starting in 1934.)

1965:
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Disneyland observes its tenth anniversary with a Tencennial Parade
1994:

At EPCOT, The Kitchen Kabaret Revue, better known as simply Kitchen Kabaret, an Audio-Animatronics theatrical presentation about nutrition, closes. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]An original attraction in The Land pavilion, it will later re-open as Food Rocks (and ultimately Soarin'.).

2004:
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After some seven months of interplanetary travel, NASA's Spirit rover lands on Mars. Administrator Sean O'Keefe sums up the amazing feat
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with the simple phrase: "We're back ... and we're on Mars."
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NASA's $820 million dual Mars Exploration Rover project - Spirit and still en route Opportunity -
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are designed to build upon a legacy of earlier discoveries about Mars. (O'Keefe's quote, along
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with a replica of the twin robot geologists, will be enshrined outside the Mission:SPACE
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1905:

Character actor & Disney Legend Sterling Holloway - the original voice of Winnie the Pooh - is born in Cedartown, Georgia. His countless Disney voice credits include Dumbo (as Mr. Stork), Bambi (as Adult Flower), The Three Caballeros (as Professor Holloway), Make Mine Music (narrator of "Peter and the Wolf"), The Jungle Book (as Kaa), and The AristoCats[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (as Roquefort).

1937:

The first cels of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are taken to the Disney Ink and Paint department at the studio on Hyperion Avenue in California. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Walt wants the film completed for a Christmastime release.

1939:
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Walt Disney Productions signs a contract with Igor Stravinsky for the use of his Rite of Spring in a future animated film. Widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century, Stravinksy's Rite of Spring is a ballet which first premiered in May 1913. Stravinksy will receive $1,200 for the use of his music for Disney's 1940 Fantasia[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
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Walt Disney and a handful of his staff lunch with animation pioneer
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Max Fleischer and his son ________ at the Disney commissary.
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1989:
T[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Walt Disney World attraction If You Could Fly (opened since June 1987) closes. (It will reopen the following June as Delta Dreamflight.)

1996:

M[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ichael Eisner speaks to a group of Disney shareholders in New York. He discusses Disney's plans for Animal Kingdom, Disney World's 25th anniversary, the Florida community of Celebration, and the Disney Cruise Lines.

2002:
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The two-day 2002 Disney Marathon Health and Fitness Expo in the Milk House at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex kicks off. The Expo will lead up to the 2002 Walt Disney World Marathon and Half Marathon on January 6.
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The Orlando Sentinel reports that the U.S. Army is planning to double the size of Shades of Green, its 287-room hotel at Walt Disney World, in a $50 million expansion project that could start as soon as April. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In sharp contrast with Disney's recent closings of thousands of rooms at some of its resorts because of slow business, Shades of Green (located near the Magic Kingdom) has been turning guests away lately with occupancy rates consistently ranging from 90 to 99 percent.

2005:
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The largest Disney theme park ticket give-away takes place at the Fed Ex Orange Bowl National Championship game in Miami, Florida. Seventy-two thousand ticket holders shout “I’m going to Disneyland!” after each of them receive a surprise free ticket to any Disney theme park in the world. Mickey Mouse makes a surprise appearance at the end of the third quarter and personally invites each of them to the global celebration saluting the 50th anniversary of Disneyland Park in California.
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The Southern California Trojans win over the Oklahoma Sooners by a score of 55-19.
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The Wonders of Life pavilion "closes" at Epcot as it is now considered a seasonal attraction. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]It will reopen when the park is projected to hit near capacity during the high spring months and big holiday season.[/FONT]
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It's a busy day at the Disneyland Resort when "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience"
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closes so that the Tomorrowland theater can be prepared for the February return
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of Captain EO.
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Meanwhile workers begin to empty the Rivers of America - a waterway surrounding Tom Sawyer Island for a 4-month rehabilitation and upgrade project. The 6 million gallons of water will go to a recycling facility instead of
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being dumping into the ocean, as Disney has done the previous times it drained waterways. Among the
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improvements (once the river is drained) - installing a new 2,500-foot track for the Mark Twain Riverboat and
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the Sailing Ship Columbia for the first time since the parks opening in 1955.
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Later in the day, walls go up in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of Disney’s California Adventure, as workers
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begin the first phase of the Red Trolley Cars attraction. The project is part of a major, $1 billion renovation, and
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when completed in 2012, the trolleys will travel and carry guests from the park’s entrance around to the Twilight
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Zone Tower of Terror ride area

2011:

At approximatley 6:30 a.m., Disney's newest cruise ship the Dream arrives at Port Canaveral, Florida for the very first time. Four years in the making, the 130,000 ton ship can carry 4,000 passengers. Port Canaveral made $32 million in improvements to its facilities in order to accommodate the new ship, which will set sail on its maiden voyage later this month.



The Producers Guild of America announce the television and motion picture nominations for the 2011 Producers Guild Awards. Among the nominations:

Toy Story 3; Producer: Darla K. Anderson for The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Toy Story 3; Producer: Darla K. Anderson for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Winners will be announced at the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 22nd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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1913:

Animator, director, writer and Disney Legend Jack Hannah is born in Arizona. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]At the Walt Disney Studios he started as an inbetweener and clean-up artist on many early Mickey, Donald and Silly Symphony cartoons. Hannah also helped Carl Barks (the man drew the comic book adventures of Donald Duck) create his first two comic book stories. He later directed some 94 Disney animated films. Hannah retired in 1959, and spent a number of years creating and then heading the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.

1932:

Disney's 26th Silly Symphony film The Bird Store is completed. Directed by Wilfred Jackson (who played an important role in synchronizing sound to the movements of animated characters) the film will be released January 16[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

1986:
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The Biscuit Barrel, a shop in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT Center, closes.
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2002:

Atlanta Braves spring training tickets go on sale at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex. This will be the team's 5th season of spring training at Disney's Florida complex, which includes a 15-game home schedule starting[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]in mid-February.

2003:
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Cinderella's Gala Feast, a character buffet at the Grand Floridian's 1900
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Park Fare (located in Walt Disney World) officially welcomes guests.
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Television's animated family The Simpsons visit a Florida
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theme park called EFCOT

2004:

The 2003 Annie Award nominations, presented by the International Animated Film Society, are announced. Disney nominees include Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo (with multiple nominations), Brother Bear, Jungle Book 2, 101 Dalmatians II, Destino, Piglet's Big Movie, and Stitch! The Movie. (Winners will be announced on February 7th[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)

2009:
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Disney World announces that it will offer free five-day multi-park passes to members of the U.S. military. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Both active and retired military personnel are eligible for the “Disney’s Armed Forces Salute” promotion, which will run through December 23, 2009.
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1938:
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A story meeting for sequene 1 of Pinocchio takes place on this Thursday morning at Disney's Projection Room #4. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Among those in attendance for the 3 hour session: Walt, Ben Sharpsteen, Otto Englander, Bill Cottrell, ________ Huemer, Joe Grant, Ted Sears, Ham Luske, Frank Thomas, and Fred Moore.

1955:
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Actor, writer & funnyman Rowan Atkinson, the voice of Zazu the hornbill in
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Disney's animated feature The Lion King (and the star of the Mr. Bean British TV series) is born[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] in Consett, County Durham, England.

1985:
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The Hallmark Card Shop on Disneyland's Main Street closes.
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It will re-open in March as Disney Clothiers LTD
1997:

At Disneyland's New Orleans Square, the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction closes for its 30th Anniversary renovation. (It will reopen and be rededicated[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] March 7, 1997.)

2002:
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The Travel Channel airs Great Hotels - Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge for the first
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2003:
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Disneyland's 6-million gallon Rivers of America is drained, putting a stop to the boat cruises and cutting off access to Tom Sawyer Island. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Although a 2,000-foot long, 8-foot tall blue fence surrounds the dried up area, park guests still peek through cracks to view the boats' underwater tracks. To entertain guests until the Rivers of America are refilled, Disney employees dressed as Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher re-enact the fence-painting scene from Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

2008:

Today is the last day of existence for Disney-MGM

Studios in Florida. As of tomorrow, the Disney World

park will be called Disney's Hollywood Studios.



Today is also the closing date for Block Party Bash,

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]a hybrid stage show and parade running at Disney's California Adventure (since May 2005). It will be transferred to Disney's Hollywood Studios - replacing the Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade.

2010:
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The 36th annual People's Choice Awards are handed out in Los Angeles.
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Favorite Family Movie is awarded to Disney'Pixar's Up (beating out Hannah Montana: The Movie, Ice Age:
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Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and Where the Wild Things Are).
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Miley Cyrus wins Favorite Breakout Movie Actress (edging out Anna Kendrick, Emily Osment, Ginnifer
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Goodwin, and Zoe Saldana). Johnny Depp is named Favorite Movie Actor of the Decade!
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1800:
Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth United States President, is born in a log cabin in
Summerhill, New York. He is the second Vice President to assume the presidency upon the death
of a sitting president (succeeding Zachary Taylor). Visit Fillmore and all the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney
World's The Hall of Presidents.
1931:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Birthday Party, featuring the
voices of Walt Disney as Mickey and Marcellite Garner as Minnie, is
released. Virtually all of the early supporting Disney characters make an appearance at a
surprise party for Mickey.
1942:
T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer Dietrich Rempel introduce a protective Mickey Mouse gas mask for children. It has been one month since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and fears of saboteurs and submarines attacks on the U.S. are high. A critical need exists to protect the civilian population, especially children, from gas attacks. The design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask is presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. Upon approval, Sun Rubber produces sample masks for review. Other comic book character designs are to follow, depending on the success of the Mickey Mouse mask.
1964:
Actor, producer and director Nicolas Cage is born Nicolas Coppola in Long Beach, California. His Disney credits include the 2004 National Treasure, the 2007 follow-up National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and the 2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
1994:
Touchstone Pictures releases the fantasy comedy film Cabin Boy, directed by
Adam Resnick and produced by Tim Burton. Comedian Chris Elliott plays a snobby "fancy
lad" school boy named Nathaniel Mayweather, who mistakenly boards the fishing ship The Filthy
instead of the Queen Catherine, a luxury cruise liner.
2008:
Disney-MGM Studios is now officially
called Disney's Hollywood Studios.
2009:
The 35th People's Choice Awards, honoring the best in popular culture for 2008, is
held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Disney/Pixar's WALL-E
wins Favorite Family Movie (beating out Walt Disney Pictures' The Chronicles of
Narnia: Prince Caspian and DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda.
2010:
Allison Iraheta, the 17-year-old former American Idol contestant, visits Radio Disney in Burbank, California. She performs her new single "Friday, I’ll Be Over You."

 

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1936:
Walt Disney is decorated with France's highest award - the Legion of Honor.
At a ceremony held on the grounds of his Hyperion Avenue Studio, Jean-Joseph Viala, the French
Consul in Los Angeles, pins the medal to Disney's left lapel.
1956:
Due to poor attendance, Disneyland's the Mickey Mouse Club Circus,
an attraction running since November 1955, closes. The first major addition to Disneyland, the circus was held in a pink and white striped tent (which was set-up in the area that later will house the Fantasyland Autopia). Capitalizing on the success of the Mickey Mouse Club TV series, the 75-minute circus show featured a cast of well-known Mouseketeers in various roles.
1962:
Disneyland's Chicken Plantation Restaurant - in
business since the park's opening day - closes in Frontierland.
Sponsored by Swift’s Premium Meats, the restaurant served up fried chicken dinners along the Rivers of America. The space occupied by the restaurant is needed for the construction of New Orleans Square.

1981:
Gert Schelvis becomes the 200-millionth Disneyland guest!
2001:
Actor Don Brodie - who appears in Disney's 1975 Escape to Witch
Mountain and is the voice of Barker in Disney's 1940 Pinocchio -
passes away in Los Angeles, California.
2004:
Disneyland welcomes its 500,000,000th guest Bill Trow (from Wentworth Falls, Australia). Trow is accompanied by his wife Ann-Marie and their 5-year-old daughter Aspen.

The 35th NAACP Image Awards nominations are announced. The Walt Disney Company is nominated for several awards that honor companies who support positive images for people of color in arts and entertainment.
2007:
After spending about a year on a redesign project, the Walt Disney
Company unveils the new Disney.com at the Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Animator, television producer, and film director Iwao Takamoto passes
away at age 81 in Los Angeles. Best known for designing the Hanna-Barbera character Scooby-Doo, Takamoto first entered the world of
cartoons at Disney in 1947. He worked as an animator on such classics as
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Lady
and the Tramp.

New Orleans Square, the final land to be added to Disney's Virtual Magic
Kingdom, opens to players. (VMK is a free online game run by Disney.)

 

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He will go on to help Roy O. Disney build Walt Disney World and assist Company president Card Walker in developing [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]EPCOT Center[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. Later Tatum will succeed Roy O. Disney as chief executive and board chairman - becoming the first non-Disney family member to head the company!

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1916:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]dministrator and Disney Legend Card Walker is born Esmond Cardon Walker in Rexburg, Idaho. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A mailroom clerk for Disney in 1938, he will be elected president of The Walt Disney Company in 1971 - then called Walt Disney Productions. In 1976 Walker will be named chief executive officer, and finally in 1980 become chairman of the board, a position he will hold until his retirement in 1983.
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1938:

Leopold Stokowski conducts a

recording session in Culver City, California, for a Disney animated segment called

The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The musical piece, also called The Sorcerer's Apprentice,

is written by French composer Paul Dukas. Walt has had to rent a studio as the 85 musicians whom Stokowski has

selected cannot fit on Disney's Hyperion soundstage. The session is recorded late at night at the suggestion of

Stokowski. He chooses nighttime because the musicians will have to drink coffee to stay awake and this will make

them more alert! (The success of the session will help Walt decide to turn The Sorcerer's Apprentice into just one

segment of a bigger "concert feature" called Fantasia[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] ... featuring Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra!)

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1976:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isneyland opens the very first Disneyana Shop on Main Street. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]At this time, the shop sells all disneyana merchandise, including vintage collectibles purchased through secondary buyers. (The shop will eventually close in March of 1986, and a renovated Disneyana Shop will reopened in May 1998, selling only park-exclusive and limited edition merchandise.)[/FONT]
1987:

Disneyland's Star Tours attraction opens in Tomorrowland
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(occupying the space where Adventure Thru Inner Space once stood).
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A simulator ride based on the Star Wars movies by George Lucas, it is the park's first attraction not to use Disney-designed imagery. The celebration lasts for 60 hours and guests are given a Star Tours Watch when they enter.
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The attraction features the voices of Paul Reubens (a.k.a. ______ Wee Herman) as Rex the bumbling pilot droid,
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Anthony Daniels as the voice of C-3PO, Steve Gawley as Red Leader, Dennis Murren as one of three ILMers
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(visible in a Maintenance Bay window), and Brian Cummings as the Vid-Screen announcer. The supervisor who
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ducks under the desk at the end of the ride is Ira Keeler - not George Lucas!

1999:
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Horizons closes forever at Walt Disney World's Epcot park. Opened since
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1983, Horizons took guests on a fascinating 15-minute ride through theworld
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of the 21st century. The pavilion will be destroyed and years later be replaced
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]with Mission:SPACE.

2002:
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The Disney owned baseball team, the Anaheim Angels announce a new look for the team's uniforms. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Capturing the tradition of Angel baseball and a contemporary "back to basics" flare, the new logo features the signature halo surrounding the "A" while the uniforms are reminiscent of decades past. Red is the dominant color for all 4 of the new uniforms: home, road, alternate home and a batting practice jersey.

2009:

T[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Walt Disney Company and Hanes officially opens “Disney Design-a-Tee presented by Hanes”, an innovative next-generation store for apparel souvenirs at Downtown Disney in the Walt Disney World Resort.
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1904:
Actor Ray Bolger is born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Best known for his role as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, Bolger played the role of Barnaby in Disney's 1961 live-action feature Babes in Toyland.
1910:
An 18-year-old named Joyce Clyde Hall from Nebraska steps off a train in Kansas City, Missouri for the first time. Equipped with little more than two shoeboxes of picture postcards and his entrepreneurial spirit, he will start what today is Hallmark Cards, Inc.
(Interestingly, Hall will only live about a mile away from Walt Disney in Kansas City ... though they won't meet until they begin doing business in 1931!)
1930:
Roy Edward Disney, a longtime senior executive for Disney
and the nephew of Walt Disney, is born to Roy Oliver and
Edna Disney in Los Angeles, California. He will begin working for
his Uncle Walt after graduating from college in 1951 as an assistant director.
He'll continue to work as a writer, director, and producer until 1967 when he is elected to the Board of Directors of
the company. A strong supporter of Disney animation, Roy E. will best be known for organizing the ousting of two
top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005.
1970:
Walt Disney World's Preview Center, located on Buena Vista Boulevard near
the intersection of Interstate 4 and State Road 535 in Florida, opens. Housed
in a modern glass, concrete and steel structure, the center features displays of models and drawings of the soon-to-be-open Florida theme park.
1992:
Disney's Hollywood Pictures releases The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, a thriller starring Rebecca De Mornay as a vengeful nanny out to destroy a naïve woman and steal her family.
2001:
Disneyland Paris welcomes its 100-millionth visitor; Stefan and Andrea Seyffardt and their daughters Lisa, 6, and Marie, 4, from Germany.
2005:
Seventy-five six-foot tall Mickey Mouse statues begin their visit at Disney's California Adventure. They will be on display until February 22.
2010:
Adriano Bastos wins his sixth straight Walt Disney World Marathon
crossing the Epcot finish line in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 8 seconds
ahead of a field of an estimated 24,000 runners!

The late Roy E. Disney is honored (on what would've been his 80th birthday) at
a memorial service at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. About 1,000
people attend, including many animators, actors and studio heads. During the memorial, Disney's CEO and
President Robert Iger announces that the main animation building in Burbank will be renamed the Roy E.
Disney Animation Building.
"My dad was there from the beginning, so he had that connection with Walt and the connection
to the beginning, so he understood the core of what this place really is, and he understood how important it was and how important
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1931:

Author and composer Mary Rodgers is born in New York City. Her 1972 novel Freaky Friday will twice be brought to the big screen (and once as a made-for-TV movie) by Disney. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mary is the daughter of legendary Broadway and film composer Richard Rodgers.[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]

1963:
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Animator Priscillano "Pres" Romanillos is born in the Philippines. At the age of six, his family
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moved to Queens, New York City where he grew up. Later he enrolled at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan,
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successfully graduating with a Masters Degree in Fine Art. In 1988 Romanillos was hired by Disney Animation
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where he worked on such films as The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast,
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Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Princess and the Frog. But he is probably best
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1987:

Everyone's favorite VW Beetle returns to television when

The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Herbie Goes Bananas"
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1990:
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Disneyland kicks off its 35th anniversary celebration. On hand for the first
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time since 1955 are all three of the original hosts of the park's grand opening live broadcast. Art Linkletter,
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Bob Cummings, and Ronald Reagan reunite in front of Main Street station before taking part in the Party
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Gras Parade - featuring New Orleans-style floats and 40-foot-tall balloons.
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Meanwhile down in Florida, the Walt Disney World Swan Resort holds its
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grand opening. The deluxe hotel, designed by award-winning architect Michael Graves, is a 12-story
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building with an arched rooftop featuring a pair of graceful 47-foot swan statues. Located between Epcot
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and Disney-MGM Studios (later renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios), it is owned by Tishman Hotel
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Corporation and operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide under the Westin brand.
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Artist, animator & director Hugh Hennesy is born in New Lexington, Ohio. First
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joining Disney in 1932, his vast credits include Pinocchio, Fantasia, Saludos Amigos, Melody Time, and
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Lady and the Tramp. Hennesy's wife Helen was Disney's very first librarian
1936:

The New York Times publishes an interview titled "H.G. Wells in Close Up." (Wells is the author of such science fiction classics asThe Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in
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the Moon, and The Time Machine). [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He refers to Walt Disney as "a genius."

1999:
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Actress and Disney Legend Betty Lou Gerson, who supplied the voice for Cruella De Vil in Disney's 101 Dalmatians, and provided the narration for Cinderella, passes away in Los Angeles, California.
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GO Network, an Internet portal site created by Disney and Infoseek, is launched
2001:

Downtown Disney, a separate restaurant, shopping
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and nightclub zone beside Disneyland's new park,
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officially opens to the public. This new center links the two
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theme parks and the three Disneyland Resort hotels. AMC Theatres
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also debuts its newest megaplex in Downtown Disney. The theaters
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are housed in a 60,000-square-foot building showcasing architectural
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features reminiscent of the golden age of Hollywood.
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Disney and McDonald's start a New Collect-and-Build Happy Meal campaign starring Buzz Lightyear, the interstellar hero from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story and Toy Story 2 movies and an all-new animated television series.
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Disney Channel airs a special sneak peek of "Rumors" the very first episode of the new Lizzie McGuire series. Also debuting is Zenon: The Zequel, a Disney Channel Original Movie starring Kirsten Storms.
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Touchstone Pictures generally releases the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? starring George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](The film has been playing in select cities since December 2000.)

2004:

Tokyo Disneyland begins its 20th anniversary celebration with the live show "Remember the Dreams."



It is announced that Disney's Florida animation department

will close ... resulting in 258 jobs lost

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][/FONT]2007:

Disney Channel's newest series Cory in the House (a spinoff of That's So

Raven) premieres. Cory, which marks Disney Channel's first-ever series spinoff, features Raven's Kyle Massey and Rondell Sheridan reprising their roles as son and father Cory and Victor Baxter.

Also debuting is the Disney Channel Movie Jump In! starring Corbin Bleu, best known from the hit High School Musical. (Jump In! will draw 8.17 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in the network’s history!)



2007 Disney Dollars featuring Ariel, Princess Aurora and Cinderella are released at Disneyland, Walt Disney World and Disney Stores.



Shareholders are informed that Disney's 2007 Annual Meeting of shareholders, will be held on Thursday, March 8, 2007, at 10 a.m. at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.



Disney's Hollywood Pictures releases Primeval.
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The first Mickey Mouse comic strip is published in the New York Mirror and
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other Randolph Hearst-owned newspapers throughout the country. The strip
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(licensed by King Features Syndicate) is written by Walt Disney himself, drawn by Ub Iwerks and inked
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by Win Smith. The first week or so of the strip will feature a loose adaptation of the animated short
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Plane Crazy[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. (Later Floyd Gottfredson will take over the Mickey strip and draw it for 45 years.)[/FONT]
1931:

Tony Award-winning actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher Charles Nelson Reilly is born in the Bronx, New York. He was the voice of King Midas in Disney's TV series Hercules, and the voice of Dutch Sparkle in Goof Troop. (Reilly is best known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)[/FONT]​

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1938:

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1961:

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the voice of Princess Atta in Disney's 1998 A Bug's Life, is born in New York City. She also appeared in Gepetto, a 2000 made-for-television remake of Pinocchio, playing the Blue Fairy. (She is best known for her roles on both hit series Seinfeld and The New Adventures of Old Christine[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)[/FONT]
1966:

Actor Patrick Dempsey is born in Lewiston, Maine. Known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd ("McDreamy") on the ABC-TV drama Grey's Anatomy, he portrayed Robert "Rob" Philip in Disney's 2007 feature Enchanted. His credits also include Touchstone Pictures' Can't Buy Me Love and Hollywood Pictures' Run[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]

2007:
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Johnny and the Sprites, a new half-hour series, debuts on Disney Channel
2008:

Entertainment news anchor Brooke Anderson announces the Best Animated Feature Film winner Ratatouille at The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards Announcement at the Beverly Hilton in California. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Due to the on-going WGA strike, no formal ceremony takes place.)
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]uthor and mathematician Lewis Carroll, best remembered for his Alice books,
[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (1865) and [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Through the Looking-Glass[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](1871) dies suddenly of violent pneumonia. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]He was just 2 weeks away from turning 66
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]years old. (His work will have a lasting impression on many - including Walt Disney.)

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1990:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]E[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]pcot's Person of the Century attraction is [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]launched[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] at CommuniCore West.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he first of two four story dolphins are placed atop the Walt Disney World
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Dolphin Resort

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2001[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]S[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]tarting today, Disney Auctions offers Disney Parks and Resorts One-of-a-Kind Collector Pins. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]As part of the 15-month Millennium Celebration at Disney World, guests were
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]introduced to pin trading & collecting. While the pins are no longer available at the parks, collectors can
[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]now bid for one-of-a-kind collectors' pins at Disney Auctions (www.ebay.disney.com). For the first time ever
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2006:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]A[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ctress Shelley Winters passes away in Beverly Hills, California. A two-time Oscar winner, she appears in Disney's 1977 [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Pete's Dragon[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he NFFC (the club for Disneyana enthusiasts) host the World's Largest
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Strictly Disneyana Show & Sale at the Crowne Plaza Resort Hotel in
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Garden Grove, California.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]E[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]mmy-winning composer Harvey Cohen passes away at age 55 in Los
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Angeles. He orchestrated music for Disney's live-action 2006 feature [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]gy Dog[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], and composed music for both the 1998 [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Belle's Magical
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]World[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] and the 1994 TV series [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Aladdin[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2008:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]S[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]tarting on this day (and continuing through the next 10 days) Imagineers field test a wireless device at Disney World known as the Disney Magic Connection. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The hand-held unit has the potential to inform guests in real time what the current wait time is at a specific attraction! It will also let a visitor know whether there are any FastPasses left for a particular attraction ... and when they will be available. Sixty families will be randomly chosen each day at the Magic Kingdom to participate in the program.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Alice Comedy[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Alice the Toreador[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], featuring Virginia Davis, is released.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]In this short, directed by Walt Disney, Alice finds herself in a bullfight!

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1940:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]G[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]lenn Miller and his big band record "Give a Little Whistle" featuring singer
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Marion Hutton, a month before the release of Disney's [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Pinocchio[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

1955:

D[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]espite plans to open Disneyland without it, Walt Disney decides to go ahead and have Tomorrowland built. (It will be completed in 6 months.)

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1969:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Disneyland Hotel's new Marina Tower officially opens. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]With the opening of the 319 room tower, the entrance of the Disneyland Hotel has been moved from West Street to the northern side of the property. The Marina Tower's new registration lobby (300 foot long and 70 foot wide - at this time, the biggest in the U.S.) features sixteen check in stations.

1975:

The Space Mountain attraction (sponsored by RCA)

opens in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World,

Florida. The first official ride is taken by Colonel

James Irwin, the pilot of the Lunar Module on

Apollo XV. Also opening on this day in the Magic Kingdom is the Carousel of Progress, an attraction

brought in from Disneyland that traces 100 years of innovations in electricity. Through a rotating carousel, the attraction carries seated guests into the homes of four generations of the same family from the days before electricity to the present. (COP originally debuted at the New York World's Fair[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] as Progressland and then made its way to Anaheim before settling in Florida.)

1986:
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The third new Future World pavilion to be added to the
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original roster, The Living Seas opens at Disney World's EPCOT. The attraction features "Animated Atlas of the World," a new short film explaining the geological and meteorological aspects of the ocean. It also includes a 5.7 million gallon aquarium with some 8,500 living creatures.​

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1990:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]C[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]EO Michael Eisner announces plans to expand the Walt Disney World theme parks, and to add a fourth park during the 1990s. He also states that a pavilion from the Soviet Union will hopefully be added at EPCOT, and that
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]16 new attractions are planned for the Disney-MGM Studios.

1999:
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The final section of Disney World's All-Star Resort, All-Star Movies
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Resort (located at 1901 W. Buena Vista Drive) opens with The Mighty Ducks
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and 101 Dalmatians buildings. The property is decorated with giant Disney film icons such as the
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Fantasia Pool; a Mighty Ducks themed Duck Pond Pool; Herbie, The Love Bug, puppies from One Hundred and One Dalmatians and some of the residents of Andy's Room from Disney's Toy Story.

2005:

Actress Ruth Warwick, who portrayed Sally in Disney's 1946 Song of the South, passes away at age 88 in New York. Known for her performance in the classic 1941 film Citizen Kane, Warwick was also a fixture on the ABC-TV soap opera "All My Children."



Sadly on this same day, Pixar loses a member of its creative team when animator Dan Lee passes away at age 35 in California. In August 2003 he had been diagnosed with lung cancer - despite the fact that he was a nonsmoker. Best known as the creator of the title character from Finding Nemo, his credits also included Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., and Ratatouille. The 2007 Ratatouille[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], will be dedicated to Lee.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1890[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]E[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]dna Francis is born to pioneer parents in Reece, Kansas. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]She will go on to work, in the early days of the Disney Studios, as an ink artist. In April 1925 Edna will marry Roy O. Disney (a friend of her brother's) and five years later give birth to their only son Roy E. Disney. She will be named a Disney [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Legend[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] in 2003.

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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]New York Journal [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]reports that film[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]director René Clair feels that Charlie
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Chaplin and Walt Disney are both outstanding figures in the movies at this
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]time.[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] "They have no outside interference," he explains, "they act as their own producer, director,
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]and even attend to their own stories and musical scores. Their artistry is sublime."

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1952[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]W[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]alt Disney presents cartoonist George McManus, creator of the comic strip [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Bringing Up Father[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], with Banshee's Silver Lady award at a luncheon in Beverly Hills.

[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1957:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Disneyland[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] television series airs "Your Host, Donald Duck." [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Donald
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Duck convinces Walt to let him take over the hosting duties for this episode![/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's live-action black-and-white feature film [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Son of Flubber[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] (a sequel to the film
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]when approximately 12,000 runners from around the world line up for the very first
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]annual Walt Disney World Marathon. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The 26.2-mile route runs along normal and backstage
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Nagi of Hungary are the winners.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]D[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]isney's animated [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Teacher's Pet[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] is released. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Based on the animated television series, it features the voices of Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Debra Jo Rupp, David Ogden Stiers, and Jerry Stiller.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]P[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]ixel Perfect[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], the 50th Disney Channel Original Movie, first airs. [/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]When a teen named Roscoe (played by Ricky Ullman) uses holography to create a new pop star, things start to go awry.[/FONT]
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Statesman, inventor, scientist, printer, and patriot
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Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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In 1953 Disney released the short Ben and Me (adapted from the children's book written by
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author/illustrator Robert Lawson). The tale reveals the contributions of a mouse named Amos, to Franklin's
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]career. Visit Mr. Franklin at Epcot's Audio-Animatronic stage show The American Adventure.[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]

1922:
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Actress, comedian, author, and one-time game-show host Betty White is born
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in Oak Park, Illinois (though she will be raised in Los Angeles). She is best known
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for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls (a Touchstone production). In 1999 she supplied the voice for Hestia in Disney's animated TV series Hercules
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and in 2010 the voice of Mrs. Claus in the short Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa. White
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and the cast of Golden Girls (Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty) were awarded honorary Disney Legend[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] awards in 2009.she is currently starring as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland.[/FONT]​

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1927:

Actress, singer and cabaret star Eartha Kitt is born in Columbia, South Carolina. Kitt's distinctive voice can be heard as Yzma in Disney's The Emperor's New Groove, the straight-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove and the spin-off TV series The Emperor's New School[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], for which she won an Emmy Award and two Annie Awards for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production.
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1930:

Walt Disney, accompanied by his wife Lillian, leave for New York City.
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Tensions have increased between the Disney Studio and Pat Powers over royalties
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from Mickey cartoons. In 1928, Powers had sold Walt a Cinephone system so that he could make sound
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cartoons such as Steamboat Willie. Unable to find a distributor for the sound cartoons, Disney released
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his cartoons through Powers' Celebrity Pictures company. Walt wants to confront Powers face-to-face in
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]New York over money he feels he is due.
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1931:

Actor James Earl Jones, the voice of Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King and its sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, is born in Arkabutla, Missouri. Jones also narrated Disney's American Legends - a 2002 animated home video release, introduced a segment of Fantasia 2000, and narrated the 2007 Disneynature film Earth. He also supplied the voice of Santa for the 2001 video release Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street. His live-action film credits include Hollywood Pictures' Judge Dredd and Miramax Films' Cry, The Beloved Country[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]. (Star Wars fans know him as the voice of Darth Vader!)
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1962:

Construction begins on Disneyland's Swiss Family Treehouse. It will open the following November almost 2 years after the December 1960 release of Disney’s adventure movie, Swiss Family Robinson[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].
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1985:
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The 3D film Magic Journeys opens at Tokyo Disneyland in Tomorrowland​

1997:

T[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]he Department of Justice and the Walt Disney Company sign an agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure services to people who are deaf or hard of hearing at Walt Disney World attractions.
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Disney-Pixar's Up is twice awarded at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.
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Director Peter Docter accepts the award for Best Animated Film and composer Michael Giacchino wins for Best Musical Score / Motion Picture.
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Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes a new female calf when Kendi, an 11-year-old white rhino, gives birth to her third baby. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The baby (unnamed at this time) is the eighth white rhino born at DAK; her mother, Kendi, was the first.
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1952:

Donald Applecore, a Disney short featuring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale, is released. Directed by Jack Hannah, this short finds Donald an apple farmer trying to save his crop from two mischievous chipmunks
1958:

Ken-L-Land, a pet care facility (sponsored by Quaker Oats Ken-L-Ration Division) located outside the Disneyland main gate, opens for business
1963:

Buena Vista generally releases Disney's

live-action comedy Son of Flubber to theaters (two days after its debut). Starring Fred MacMurray[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif], the film has the distinction of being the first sequel produced by Disney.

1974:
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Buena Vista generally releases the Disney feature Superdad to theaters. A comedy
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directed by Vincent McEveety, the film stars Bob Crane as a worried father who feels his daughter Wendy
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(played by Cathleen Cody) is hanging out with the wrong crowd. Superdad also features Kurt Russell,
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Barbara Rush, Joe Flynn, ________ Van Patten, and Bruno Kirby
1978:

Junius Matthews, the voice of Rabbit for Disney's Winnie the Pooh from 1966 to
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1977, passes away in Los Angeles, California. He also provided the voice of Archimedes the Owl
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in Disney's 1963 The Sword in the Stone[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].

1991:
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Eastern Airlines, the official airline of Walt Disney World during the 1970s, officially shuts down. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](Just before Walt Disney World opened in 1971, Eastern established service at Orlando International and became the official airline of Walt Disney World.)

2009:

Singer Jay Mayer passes away in California. Disneyland fans knew him for his 13

years in the Golden Horseshoe Revue and as one of the singing busts in the

Haunted Mansion attraction. (Mayer appeared in countless television shows with people such as Ed

Sullivan, Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, & Bing Crosby, and sang in the chorus of such films as The Sound of
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Music and Bye Bye Birdie[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)

2010:
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It is reported that Disney’s feature film adaptation John Carter of Mars (based on
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the Edgar Rice Burroughs books) has begun principal photography in London.
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This film marks the live-action directing debut of Andrew Stanton (of Finding Nemo and WALL•E fame) and
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1924:

Lillian Bounds from Idaho (future wife of Walt Disney) starts working at the

Disney Studio in Hollywood. She will work for Disney as an ink & paint girl making fifteen dollars

a week. Lillian has been recommended by her sister's friend - who is also an employee. She has taken the

job because it is within walking distance of her older sister Hazel's house (where she is currently living) and doesn't require her to spend bus fare!
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The Mid-Winter Snow Carnival - dedicated to Mickey Mouse - continues at
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Lake Arrowhead, California. Walt Disney himself attends on this day and awards a Mickey Mouse
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doll to young Mildred Chanter, winner of the "Mickey Mouse" snowman building contest!
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(Years later Disney's The Parent Trap[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] will be filmed in Lake Arrowhead.)

1971:
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Recreacres, Incorporated (which was formed to help buy up property
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for the Walt Disney World Resort) changes its name to Buena Vista
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Land Company, Incorporated. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif](It will eventually be known as Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation.)

2001:
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A special celebration and preview of Disney California Adventure park
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is held from 4:00 p.m. to midnight. The event includes a scavenger
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hunt through Disney's newest park and a panel discussion with Imagineers and artists who created Disney
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California Adventure. (DCA will officially open February 8, 2001[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].)[/FONT]​

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2008:

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show,"

passes away at age 70 in Los Angeles, California. Her Disney credits included the live-

action features The gy D.A., The Ugly Dachshund, Blackbeard's Ghost, and The Adventures of Bullwhip

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2010:

Eleven-year-old Adam Carr of Tampa, Florida is announced the winner of the Walt
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Disney Company's "Mission Patch Design Challenge." The contest (a partnership between
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NASA and Disney) invited elementary school students to design an emblem for the 12-inch Buzz Lightyear's 468-
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day stay aboard the orbiting International Space Station in 2008. Carr's blue and yellow design features a hand-
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drawn and colored depiction of the cartoon character soaring forward from the space station as the trail from the
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STS-124 and STS-128 orbiters that took him to and from space create the patch's border.

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It is reported that Disney’s first resort in Hawaii has been named Aulani, a Disney
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Resort & Spa. The 21-acre resort, which is scheduled to open in fall of 2011, will have 360 hotel rooms and
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481 Disney Vacation Club villas. Aulani means "the place that speaks for the great ones" or "the place that speaks
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with deep messages."
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The Visual Effects Society announces the nominees for the 8th Annual VES Awards
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ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in over twenty categories of
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film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Among the nominations -
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Disney/Pixar's Up for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture and Disney's Prep and Landing for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
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The Disney Dream is officially christened at Port Canaveral, Florida. [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The special ceremony includes a helicopter hoisting a 16-foot "champagne bottle" across the bow of the new ship and a performance by Academy Award and Grammy Award winner Jennifer Hudson (whose career began as a performer on the Disney Wonder ship in 2003). Some 3,000 people witness the Disney Dream ceremony in-person while countless others watch its broadcast live over the Internet. The 4,000-passenger Disney Dream sails its maiden voyage out of Port Canaveral on January 26.
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