1865:
British author & poet Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, British
India. One of the most popular writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his best
known work - the 1894 children's novel The Jungle Book, was released as a Disney
animated feature in 1967.
2003:
A Holiday Inn replaces the Courtyard by Marriott at Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney.
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1890:
Raymond Arnold Disney (one of Walt's older brothers and the second child born to Flora and Elias Disney) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1928:
Disney's The Gallopin Gaucho premieres at the Mark Strand Theater in New York City, with synchronized sound. Although
it is the second Mickey Mouse film to be created, The Gallopin Gaucho
(directed by Ub Iweks) is the third Mickey short to be released.
1937:
Donald Duck is published under his Italian name Paolino Paperino for the first time. Paolino Paperino e il mistero di Marte (later reprinted in the USA as The Mystery of Mars) by Federico Pedrocchi, is the first to feature Donald in an adventuring rather than a comedic role. It is also the first of many to portray Donald as a space traveler.
1955:
Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent
Round-Up Day and Mouseketeer Paul Petersen's final episode.
1956:
Walt Disney appears on TV's The Ed Sullivan Show (along with
Sid Caesar and Edward R. Murrow).
1980:
The longest-running series in prime-time television history, The Wonderful World of Disney, is canceled (on NBC) after more than 25 years on the air.
The Selective Service System, in the midst of reminding 18-year-olds to register for
the draft, send a warning to Mickey Mouse at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
The Selective Service says that Mickey is in violation of registration compliance.
Disney releases its 1964 musical feature Mary Poppins to VHS tape for the
very first time.
1997:
As of this day, Disney holds eight of the top ten spots on the All Time Movie Video Sales Chart with The Lion King (1); Aladdin (2); Cinderella (3); Beauty and The Beast (4); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (5); Toy Story (7); 101 Dalmatians (8); and Pocahontas (10).
2001:
Animator Ray Patterson passes of natural causes at age 90 at his Encino,
California home. His seven-decade career included Oscar-winning work for MGM, bringing Marvel
Comics superheroes to television, and animation for Disney's Fantasia, Dumbo, and several Pluto shorts (such
as Bone Trouble and Pluto's Playmate). He was also responsible for the classic animation of Jerry Mouse
dancing with Gene Kelly in the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh.
1917:
Country singer/movie star Wesley Tuttle is born in Lamar, Colorado. He yodeled as Dopey in Disney's 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Hidden Mickeys started out as
an inside joke by Disney
Imagineers in the 1980s.
2008:
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announces the
names of 25 important motion pictures (classics and genres
from every era of American filmmaking) to the National Film
Registry of the Library of Congress. Among the 25 chosen is a
Barstow family (from Connecticut) who were among 25 families to win a free trip to the
newly opened Disneyland as part of a "Scotch Brand Cellophane Tape" contest
sponsored by 3M. (The 25 films were chosen for there cultural, historical or aesthetical significance - they are not selected as the "best" American films of all time.)
Ironically a few weeks later, actor/director Steve Martin (a self-described "Disneyland
junkie") will discover himself in the film!
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"At age eleven I worked at Disneyland. I sold guidebooks at the park from 1956 to about 1958. I am as positive as one can be that I appear about 20:20 into your film, low in the frame, dressed in a top hat, vest, and striped pink shirt, moving from left to right, holding a guidebook out for sale." -Steve Martin
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Gallopin Goucho premieres with sound
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"I think the majority of urban legends about Disney aren’t based on him, or hearing his voice. They’re based on anecdotes other people have told without knowing him personally. As a consequence, it spread this view Walt Disney as something other than flesh-and-blood. You have Disney lovers and haters who talk about things that may not connect to the real guy." -Ted Thomas, film director & son of legendary animator Frank Thomas
1993:
New York City Deputy Mayor Barry Sullivan and the Walt Disney Company sign a "memorandum of understanding" for the renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre and renewal of the Times Square area.
(The New Amsterdam will officially be unveiled on April 2, 1997.)
1988:
Tin Toy, a short by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter, is released. The first testing of PhotoRealistic RenderMan, it will win the 1988 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
1957:
Dave Digs Disney by The Dave Brubeck Quartet is released on Columbia Records for the first time. It marks the first time a musician (or in this case, a group of musicians) dedicates an entire series of tunes to interpretations of children's fare - the films of Walt Disney! The Dave Brubeck Quartet is comprised of Dave Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Norman Bates (bass) and Joe Morello (drums).
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2011:
It is reported that a $5,000 grant has been given to the Appalachian Bear Rescue
