2002:
Disney's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is released on DVD & video. The movie features the voice of Jennifer Hale as Cinderella (whose voice-over work includes the 2002 movie The Powerpuff Girls and the Disney TV series House of Mouse).
An unclaimed Mickey Mouse snow globe clears out a section of the Sacramento International Airport after being mistaken for a bomb. The unlabeled cardboard box causes 150 people to be evacuated from the B-1 terminal and 5 outbound flights to be delayed.
Kmart and Disney debut a colorful and fun new line of Disney-branded apparel at Kmart's Astor Place store in New York City.
1920:
Actor Tony Randall is born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He appeared in the 1989 TV special "The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening," and hosted the 1987 TV special "Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus." (TV fans know him best as Felix Unger on the classic
sitcom "The Odd Couple" and for his 70 appearances on David Letterman's "Late Show.")
1934:
Disney's Building a Building and Three Little Pigs are both nominated for the same Academy Award ... Short Subjects, Cartoon! Ironically so is Walt Lantz's The Merry Old Soul - starring Oswald the Rabbit. Winners will be announced March 16.
1941:
Walt Disney sends an inter-office communication stating that "Under present
conditions, the laying out of cash for equipment is out of line. Our situation is plenty tough
and after returning from a session with the bankers we have to stretch things out as far as we can and we still
have to cut further." Disney is being forced to focus on cutbacks.
1942:
It's a blockbuster night for Disney as Walt himself receives a special Academy Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (given to creative producers) at the 1941 Academy Awards. Music conductor Leopold Stokowski receives a special Oscar for his work on Disney's Fantasia. Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company are also awarded a special Oscar for "their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia." The Disney/RKO short cartoon Lend a Paw is presented with an Academy Award as well (beating out 9 other cartoon shorts including Disney's Truant Officer Donald). Songwriters Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace take home Oscar for Scoring of a Musical Picture, for their work on Dumbo.
1958:
The Disneyland TV series airs episode 92 - "The Saga of Andy Burnett:
The Land of Enemies." It is the 4th episode of the Burnett serial.
1960:
The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs "Texas John Slaughter: Kentucky Gunslick," the 12th of a 17-part miniseries starring Tom Tryon.
1961:
Walt Disney Presents airs part 2 of the film"Westward Ho! The Wagons."
1962:
Academy Award nominations are announced. Disney's The Absent Minded Professor earns 3, Parent Trap is nominated for 2, Babes in Toyland is also recognized for 2, and the animated short Aquamania is nominated for 1. Winners will be announced April 9.
1995:
Grand opening ceremonies begin for Disneyland's newest attraction, Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye. The dark ride attraction will open to the public March 3.
1998:
The All Star Café (a 240-seat restaurant) opens at Disney's Wide World of Sports
Complex in Florida. A chain of sports themed restaurants developed by Planet Hollywood, it features
"stadium cuisine" and sales of professional sports merchandise and souvenirs. (The franchise will ultimately be
unsuccessful and the last Official All Star Café, the one at Disney's Wide World of Sports, will close on
September 23, 2007.)
Disney Legend James Algar, who brought nature and history documentaries as
well as animated classics to Disney fans for more than four decades, passes
away at age 85 in Carmel, California. Best known for the Disney True Life Adventure series he directed, including the films Beaver Valley, Bear Country and The Living Desert, Algar also created shows for Disney theme parks. He wrote and produced the Hall of Presidents attraction for Walt Disney World.
2000:
The Disney animated series The Weekenders debuts with the episode "Crush Test Dummies." The show's title music is written and performed by Wayne Brady.
ABC-TV airs episode 11 of Mickey Mouse Works. The program features the shorts "Mickey's Mixed Nuts," "Goofy's Extreme Sports: Shark Feeding," "Mickey's Mountain," and "computer.don" (featuring Donald, Daisy, Mickey & Goofy).
2006:
The Timekeeper - located in Disney World's Magic Kingdom - permanently closes (although it hasn't operated since late 2005). A poorly attended Tomorrowland attraction, it first opened in 1994.
1732:
Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army and later Brigadier General in the South Carolina Militia during the American Revolutionary War, is born near Georgetown, South Carolina. Known as the "Swamp Fox" - for his ability to use decoy and ambush tactics to disrupt British communications, capture supplies, and free prisoners - his exploits will be the inspiration for the late 1950s television anthology series The Swamp Fox starring Leslie Nielsen and produced by Walt Disney.
Port Discovery is an Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, children's museum that opened in 1998.
Port Discovery's permanent
exhibits were designed by
Walt Disney Imagineering. Located in the old Fish Market building, “kid-powered” Port Discovery is for kids age 2 to 10.
2008:
The Little Mermaid Original Broadway Cast Album is officially released. The album features hits from the animated film plus 10 all-new songs written for the Broadway production.
1953:
Walt Disney is given the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 10th Annual Golden Globe
Awards held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Given for lifetime
achievement in motion pictures by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the award is named in honor of
Cecil B. DeMille, one of the industry's most successful filmmakers. Walt Disney's award is only the second
ever given (Cecil B. DeMille himself was awarded the very first one in 1952).
1940:
Disney's Pinocchio is first released in Brazil.
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2009:
The Atlanta Braves play their first game of the spring training season against a Major League team at Champion Stadium (located at Disney's Wide World of Sports) in Florida. They take on the Houston Astros in an afternoon game and win 8-7. The first 2,000 fans receive a lanyard, notepad and pen.
Walt Disney World Resort launches a new Online Check-In Service, designed to simplify and streamline guest arrivals. The new service is complimentary and available to guests staying at select Walt Disney World Resort hotels and certain Disney Vacation Club resorts.
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"Jim (Algar) was a great storyteller, who made invaluable contributions to our animated classics, theme parks and especially, our nature films. He added tremendously to the Studio's reputation for superior storytelling."
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