This Day in Disney History: FEB 21

2003:

The Lizzie McGuire episode "Bunkies"

debuts on the Disney Channel. Also premiering

for the first time is the That's So Raven episode "Saving Psychic Raven".

1927:

The Alice Comedy Alice at the Rodeo is released.

1955:

Emmy-award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer, the voice of Stinky Pete the Prospector in Toy Story 2 and the narrator of Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story and Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, is born in St. Thomas,

Virgin Islands. (TV fans will recognize him from the hit series Frasier.)

1997:

Club Disney, an interactive children's developmental play center and Disney's

first regional entertainment concept, opens its first unit in Thousand Oaks,

California.

2001:

Disney wins Grammy Awards for Elton John and Tim Rice's "Aida" (Best Musical Show Album) and "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2, written by Randy Newman and performed by Sarah McLachlan (Best Song Written For a Motion Picture, Television

or Other Visual Media category).

Also Riders In The Sky are presented with a Grammy for their

album "Woody's Roundup Featuring Riders In The Sky"

(a Walt Disney Records release).

2002:

A sneak preview is held at the Disney Gallery (located in Disneyland) for an exhibit featuring 100 images of Mickey Mouse by artist and former Disney Imagineer Eric Robison. The special evening is hosted by Mouseketeers Sherry Alberoni and Bobby Burgess.

The exhibit will officially open to the public 2 days later.

A Disneyland monorail stalls on a 25-foot high track, briefly stranding 65 passengers. The guests are led down to the ground by

firefighters using ladders!

Adam Vinatieri, who kick-started the New England Patriots' AFC playoff push with two clutch field goals and then booted his team into the Super Bowl winner's circle, appears at the Disney-MGM Studios. Surrounded by hundreds of cheering fans and autograph seekers, Vinatieri presses both his famous feet into a 2-by-3-foot mold filled with wet cement before signing his name for posterity.

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1989:

Actor & dancer Corbin Bleu is born in Brooklyn, New York. Best known for his role of Chad Danforth on Disney Channel's hit High School Musical, his Disney credits also include the 2007 Jump In!

1904:

Hazel Gilman, the Disney Studio nurse, is born in Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. (She was hired by Walt during the infamous studio strike of 1941.) Under the pseudonym "Gil George," she will co-write over 90 songs for Disney! Her work will include songs for films like The Light in the Forest, Perri, Tonka, Westward Ho the Wagons, and Old Yeller. She will also contribute to television shows including the original Disneyland show,

Zorro, and the original Mickey Mouse Club. Hazel's songwriting career will end when studio composer/partner Paul Smith retires in 1962 although as a nurse, she will continue treating Walt right up until he enters

St. Joseph's Hospital. (Incredibly, her contributions to the musical

heritage of Disney will be often overlooked.)

The shops on

Disney World's Main Street

are open for one hour

after the

Magic Kingdom closes.

FEBRUARY 21

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