2004:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the concert DVD
Hilary Duff: The Girl Can Rock.
In 1987, Disneyland veteran Chuck Abbott conceived and initiated the Cast Member seeing-eye dog fund, which became a highly successful volunteer group.
1914:
Known for the Walt Disney live-action adventures The Story of Robin Hood (1952), The Sword and the Rose
(1953) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960), he also directed the madcap comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and the World War II epic The Longest Day. Annakin, a friend of George Lucas, was used by
Lucas as the source of the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars!
1951:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon R'coon Dawg, featuring James Macdonald as the voice of Mickey, is released. Directed by Charles Nichols, Mickey hunts for raccoons, with help from Pluto. But the raccoon outsmarts Pluto at every turn, with help from a vine, a stream, and ultimately grabbing Mickey's coonskin cap and puppeteering it as a baby coon.
1955:
Chuck Abbott begins work at Disneyland as a ride operator on the Autopia. Abbott has to really pay attention - as there is no track on the attraction (at this time) and drivers frequently crash into anything and everything - including Cast Members! He will go on to become a foreman at Disneyland for 36 years and be named a Disney Legend in 2005 (two years after his death) - a first for an hourly theme park Cast Member.
1959:
Walt Disney reads an article in The New York Times about the upcoming 1964 World's Fair in New York. He immediately sees opportunities for his company.
1960:
Disney's True-Life Adventure documentary Jungle Cat - narrated by
Winston Hibler - is released. The film, written and directed by James Algar, chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.
1994:
The Concourse Steak House opens at Walt Disney World, on the site of
the former Concourse Grill. It is located next to the escalators to the monorail station at Disney's Contemporary Resort's Grand Concourse (4th floor). (It will close in May 2008 to make way for the counter service Contempo Cafe.)
1999:
Doreen Tracey, an original Mouseketeer (from 1955-1958), appears as a chat guest at Disney.com.
2001:
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Rated Aargh" debuts on Disney Channel.
2007:
"Muppets, Music and Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy," takes place at the Cinema Arts
Center in Huntington, New York (for the next 3 days). A traveling series of films, workshops and
discussions, “Muppets, Music and Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy” also features special guest puppeteers.
Corbin Bleu from the Disney Channel's High School Musical, Jump In!, and
High School Musical 2 appears on ABC-TV's "Live! with Regis & Kelly."
High School Musical 2 debuts on iO's and Verizon FiOS's Disney on Demand. (This
much-anticipated sequel will premiere on Disney Channel seven days later.)
1934:
Walt and Lillian Disney sail for Hawaii from Los Angeles aboard the Matson Lines vessel SS Lurline. It is their first visit to the islands. SS Lurline is the third Matson Lines vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, & the island of New Guinea) runs from the West Coast of the U.S.
1874:
Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first United States President, is born in West Branch, Iowa (the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River). Visit him and all the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World's The Hall of Presidents.
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"That’s one of the cool things that I really love about animation, that you know it’s all phony. You know it’s just a bunch of drawings or in our case computer images, but when it’s done well, you totally get sucked into it. You fall into it and fall into love with these characters. You cry. You laugh. There’s something really intriguing about that duplicity, or whatever, of knowing that it’s fake and yet getting totally drawn into it."
-Pete Docter (film director, animator and screenwriter - best known for directing Monsters, Inc. and Up)
Disneys set sail for Hawaii
1945:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Duck Pimples is released. Directed by Jack Kinney, Donald's
over-active imagination is set-off by scary stories on the radio and in books, thus giving him goose pimples!
1929:
Director Vincent McEveety is born in New Rochelle, New York. His Disney credits include The Million Dollar Duck, The Biscuit Eater, Superdad, The Strongest Man in the World, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and Herbie Goes Bananas. His two brothers Bernard and Joe directed films for Disney as well!
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2011:
At dawn prior to the park opening, the annual Cast Canoe Races at Disneyland (a tradition since 1963) takes place. Twelve teams in three divisions row around the Rivers of America in canoes from Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes. Employees of the Davey Crockett’s Explorer Canoes sweep the divisions, taking first in the men’s, women’s and co-ed divisions.
The Help, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, is released. A film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name about a young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids during Civil Rights era America in early 1960, the film stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Sissy Spacek, Mike Vogel and Allison Janney.
