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.
Alice's cat Julius wins a bucking bronco contest at the rodeo!
1955:
Emmy-award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer, the voice of Stinky Pete the Prospector in Toy Story 2 and the narrator of both Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story and Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, is born in St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands. His Disney voice credits also include the 1995 short Runaway Brain and the 2004 Teacher's Pet. (TV fans know Kelsey from both the hit sitcoms Cheers and 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.
The very first Star Wars Weekend ever debuts at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida.
They will be held for the next 5 consecutive weekends. (Although they weren't "weekend" events as they are
known today, Disney World did stage two Star Wars events in 1977 and again in 1980. A success in 1997, Star
Wars Weekends won't be held again until 2000.)
2001:
Grammy Awards are given to 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).
Riders In The Sky are also presented with a Grammy for their
album "Woody's Roundup Featuring Riders In The Sky"
(a Walt Disney Records release).
Actress Isabella Acres, the voice of Katie, one of the Fireside Girls,
on Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb, is born in Atlanta, Georgia.
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.
1989:
Actor, singer & dancer Corbin Bleu is born in Brooklyn, New York. First known for his role of Chad Danforth on Disney's hit film series High School Musical, his credits also include the 2007 Disney Channel original Movie Jump In! Bleu's debut album, Another Side, was released in May 2007 on Disney's Hollywood Records.
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. But under the pseudonym "Gil George," she co-write over 90 songs for Disney! Her work includes songs for films like The Light in the Forest, Perri, Tonka, Westward Ho the Wagons, and Old Yeller. She also contributed to television shows including the original Disneyland show, Zorro, and the original Mickey Mouse Club. Hazel's songwriting career ended when studio composer/partner Paul Smith retired in 1962, although as a nurse she continued treating Walt right up until he entered St. Joseph's Hospital in 1966. (Incredibly, her contributions to the musical
heritage of Disney are often overlooked.)
Since 1955, Disneyland's Market
House (on Main Street) has
given free refills on coffee.
Purchase a cup of coffee and
save your receipt. No need to
keep the cup - simply bring
back the receipt and enjoy
free refills all day!
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1980:
4017 Disneya, a Main-belt Asteroid is discovered by Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named for Walt Disney.
"Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it."
-Kelsey Grammer
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1965:
The episode "An Otter in the Family Airs" on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Produced by Roy E. Disney, the hour-long program tells the tale of a young boy who finds an orphaned baby otter and decides to adopt him into the family.
1978:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney receiving 3 for:
Pete's Dragon - Music, Original Song Score
"Candle on the Water" (from Pete's Dragon) - Music, Original Song
"Somebody's Waiting for You" (from The Rescuers) - Music, Original Song
The 50th Academy Awards will be presented April 3.
2010:
Walt Disney's Broadway production of The Lion King celebrates another milestone
when it plays its 5,125th performance to become the eighth longest-running
show in Broadway history! With today's performance, the show moves up the top ten list of long runs,
surpassing the musical Rent (with 5,124 performances). In its 13th year, The Lion King first officially opened
1956:
Clarence Nash (the voice of Donald Duck), Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket) and José
Oliveira (José Carioca) appear on the ABC-TV series Mickey Mouse Club.
Today is Guest Star Day.
1977:
Episode 26 of The New Mickey Mouse Club airs. Donald Duck and his nephews appear in
the Halloween themed cartoon, Trick or Treat and Nessie, the Loch Ness monster tells the history of
monsters and of the legends that surround Loch Ness.
1979:
Actress, producer, television director and one-time singer-songwriter
Jennifer Love Hewitt is born in Waco, Texas. As a child actor, she appeared
in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. Her Disney credits
include The Hunchback of Notre Dame II as Madellaine, the main protagonist's love interest, and as a choir member in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (a Touchstone production). Hewitt starred in the television series Ghost Whisperer (co-produced by Touchstone/ABC) for 5 seasons.
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1970:
Boys' Club Days at Disneyland kicks off for the next two days.
