Scuba diving plays a major role for 54
employees at the Disneyland Resort.
Divers are responsible for maintaining
and fixing rides and equipment in the
waterways, such as the lagoon for the
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.
2005:
Roy Disney and Stanley Gold make public their withhold vote for all Directors at this year's shareholders meeting (to be held February 11 in Minneapolis).
"Julie Andrews is quite possibly the most regal, elegant person alive."
-Actress Anne Hathaway (co-star of Disney's The Princess Diaries)
1828:
Writer Jules Verne, known for such classic novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, and From Earth to the Moon, is born Jules Gabriel Verne
in Nantes, France. His depictions of fantastic technological advances, including space & underwater travel and television (years before their inventions), helped create the genre of science fiction and influenced many - including Walt Disney.
1872:
The first performance in Italy of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida
takes place in his home town of Milan.
1886:
Actor Charles Ruggles is born in Los Angeles, California. His Disney credits include The Parent
Trap, Follow Me, Boys!, The Ugly Dachshund, and Son of Flubber. It was Ruggles who voiced Benjamin Franklin
in Disney's animated short Ben and Me. (With a career spanning six decades, cartoon fans knew him best as the
narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated The Bullwinkle Show.)
1932:
Composer, conductor & pianist John Williams is born in Floral Park, New York. He has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history including Star Wars and Indiana Jones (whose music can be heard in Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland Paris). With 45 Academy Award nominations, Williams is, together with composer Alfred Newman, the second most nominated individual after Walt Disney!
1952:
The Disney 8-minute animated short Lambert, the Sheepish Lion, featuring the narration of Sterling Holloway, is released. Lambert, a lion that is mistakenly left with a flock of sheep by a stork, lives his life thinking he is a sheep - until he is forced to defend the flock from an attack by a wolf!
(The short will win an Oscar for Best Animation.)
1956:
The Disneyland television series airs
"Survival in Nature," narrated by Winston Hibler.
1965:
Julie Andrews receives a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy for her role in Disney's Mary Poppins. Dick Van Dyke is nominated for Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy (also for his role in Mary Poppins), but is edged out by Rex Harrison (for his role in My Fair Lady). Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy goes to My Fair Lady - beating out Mary Poppins. Although the Sherman Brothers are nominated for Best Original Score (for their contributions to Mary Poppins), the Golden Globe is given to Dimitri Tiomkin (for his work on The Fall of the Roman Empire).
1974:
Ringo Starr's single "You're 16" is released in the UK. The tune (already a hit in the U.S.) is written by Richard and Robert Sherman (of Disney songwriting fame). It is the second version of their song, as Rockabilly singer Johnny Burnette released his "You're 16" back in 1960.
"A Fare of the Heart" Valentine's Party takes place at Disney World's Magic Kingdom. The special evening event features Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Grass Roots, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and Gabriel's Brass.
Actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer Seth Green is born in Pennsylvania. Well known as the voice of Chris Griffin on Family Guy, Green's image was used as the
nine-year-old Milo in Disney's 2011 Mars Need Moms.
1987:
The TV series The Wonderful World of Disney airs "The Liberators."
1993:
The television sitcom Blossom - starring Mayim Bialik, Joey Lawrence and Ted Wass - airs the episode "Of Mice and Men" ... which takes place at Disneyland!
2002:
Disney World's Downtown Pleasure Island begins its Mardi Gras celebration.
Disneyland officially announces the upcoming additions to Disney's California Adventure in a short ceremony celebrating the park's first birthday. Two new attractions, "A Bug's Land" and the "Twilight Zone Tower of Terror" will be added to the California park.
The Lizzie McGuire episode "First Kiss" debuts on Disney Channel.
2006:
Gordon Goodwin wins a Grammy for Best Instrumental
Arrangement for "The Incredits" a track from The Incredibles
Soundtrack. Goodwin, a composer/arranger & consumate jazz musician, is a three-time Emmy
Award winner and the leader of Big Phat Band (a Los Angeles based jazz group).
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1953:
Walt Disney appears as a guest on a one-hour special tribute of Ed
Sullivan's hit TV show The Toast of the Town. Sullivan narrates "The Life Story of Walt Disney" with a little help from Donald Duck, as the company celebrates Mickey Mouse’s 25th birthday and the release of Peter Pan. Other guests include animators Ward Kimball and Frank Thomas, Pinto Colvig (the voice of Goofy) and even Walt's secretary Beverly Jordan.
1968:
Disney's live-action fantasy-comedy Blackbeard's Ghost - starring Peter
Ustinov (as the ghost of Blackbeard the pirate), Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette,
and Elsa Lanchester - is released. Based upon the novel of the same name written by Ben Stahl, the
film tells the story of the famous pirate's ghost who returns to modern times. Blackbeard has been cursed by his
last wife (a notorious witch) so that he will never die and the only way to "break" the curse is to do a good deed.
2008:
The 35th Annual Annie Awards
take place at UCLA’s Royce Hall
in California (the first change of
venue for the awards in nine years).
Pixar’s Ratatouille (which is nominated
in 13 categories) is the big winner taking
home 10 awards!
Actress/singer Eartha Kitt is awarded
Voice Acting in an Animated Television
Production for her contribution to
Disney's The Emperor's New School.
Among the Disney nominations are
Kim Possible (Best Animated Television Production),
My Friends Tigger & Pooh (Directing in an Animated Television Production) and Meet the Robinsons (Music in an Animated Feature Production and Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production).
1980:
Midnight Madness, a cult comedy film from Walt Disney Productions & starring David Naughton, is released. About a group of college students who participate in an all night puzzle solving race, it features Michael J. Fox in his very first film role. It is rated "PG" - only the second film from the Disney company to receive anything other than a "G" rating.
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2009:
Disney Channel's newest live-action series Sonny With a Chance (starring Demi Lovato) debuts with back-to-back episodes.
At the 62nd British Academy Film Awards, Wall-E wins for Best Animated Film.
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Best Musical Album For Children goes to "Here Comes The 123s" by
They Might Be Giants.
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1967:
Sherie Rene Scott, an actress, singer and writer, is born in Topeka, Kansas. Among her Broadway Disney credits - Amneris in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award, and the original role of Ursula in The Little Mermaid, for which she received her second Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.
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Ratatouille is awarded:
-Best Animated Feature
-Best Animated Video Game
-Character Animation in a Feature Production (Michal Makarewicz)
-Character Design in an Animated Feature Production (Carter Goodrich)
-Directing in an Animated Feature Production (Brad Bird)
-Music in an Animated Feature Production (Michael Giacchino)
-Production Design in an Animated Feature Production (Harley Jessup)
-Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production (Ted Mathot)
-Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Ian Holm)
-Writing in an Animated Feature Production (Brad Bird)
2010:
Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew Brees joins Mickey Mouse in a celebratory parade in the
Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
2007:
At the annual Disney Investor Conference, it is announced that Disney-ABC Television Group has rebranded Touchstone Television as ABC Television Studio.
2011:
The soundtrack for the movie Gnomeo and Juliet is released by Walt Disney (3 days before the film's intial release).
1977:
It's Let's Go day on episode 17 of The New Mickey Mouse Club. The serial "Mystery at Rustler's Cave" premieres its third installment, "Prime Suspect," and Donald Duck appears in the short
New Neighbor.
2001:
Disney's second Anaheim park (and 8th theme park in
the world), Disney California Adventure officially opens along
with its new Grand Californian hotel. DCA is the centerpiece of a $1.4-billion expansion of what will now be called the Disneyland Resort. The new park, which has its own distinct identity separate from the 45-year-old Magic Kingdom's, is divided into 3 main theme areas: Paradise Pier
(a nostalgic California beachfront amusement section), Hollywood Pictures Backlot (a district inspired by Hollywood Boulevard and the movies), and the Golden State (a more sprawling area devoted to the people, natural beauty and industries of California).
The Grand Californian, a Craftsman-style hotel, resembling a luxury lodge at a Western national park, has 751 rooms. The hotel sits at the edge of the new park and shares its theme celebrating the Golden State.
Michael Eisner's dedication on this day includes these words:
"To all who believe in the power of dreams … Welcome! Disney California Adventure opens its golden gates to you. Here we pay tribute to the dreamers of the past … the native people, explorers, immigrants, aviators, entrepreneurs and entertainers who built the Golden State. And we salute a new generation of dreamers who are creating the wonders of tomorrow … from the silver screen to the computer screen … from the fertile farmlands to the far reaches of space. Disney California Adventure celebrates the richness and the diversity of California … its land, its people its spirit and above all, the dreams that it continues to inspire."
1884:
Character actor Burt Mustin is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He appeared in the Disney films Son of Flubber, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, Now You See Him Now You Don't, Herbie Rides Again and The Strongest Man in the World. (Fans of classic TV will recognize Mustin for his roles in The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., and Leave It to Beaver.)
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1960:
Walt Disney receives two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for television and
one for movies. The TV star is located on the North side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard, while the
Movie star is at the North side of the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard
