2004:
The 76th Academy Awards are held at the Kodak Theatre in
Hollywood, California. Screenplay writer & director Andrew Stanton is awarded an
Oscar (Best Animated Feature Film) for Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo. Although nominated for Best Sound, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is edged out by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Howard Shore's original score for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King beats out Thomas Newman's Finding Nemo score.
Today is Leap Day
A leap year is a year in which one extra day has been inserted at the end of February. Leap years are needed
to keep our calendar in alignment with the earth's revolutions around the sun.
The next Leap Year will be 2012.
1916:
Singer/actress/TV celebrity Dinah Shore (whose voice can be heard
in Disney's 1946 Make Mine Music and 1947
Fun and Fancy Free) is born in Winchester, Tennessee.
1940:
Disney is awarded an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoon) for the Silly Symphony short The Ugly Duckling at the 1939 Academy Awards (held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles).
1956:
The Disneyland television series airs a look at Disneyland's Adventureland via the Jungle Cruise attraction. Also presented is a look at the nature film
Water Birds.
2000:
Disney's An Extremely Goofy Movie makes its home-video premiere. It features the voice of Bill Farmer as Goofy.
During World War II,
93 percent of Disney Studios' output was under
government contract
to benefit the
war effort.
2008:
ESPN The Weekend kicks off at Disney World.
Meanwhile over at Disney's Animal Kingdom, a giraffe is born. Makena,
which means “Happy One” in Swahili, weighs in at 118 pounds, standing
5 feet, 6 inches tall. Makena is the first calf for her mother, 4-year-old
Malaika, who was also born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
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SEASON 2 EPISODE 21
1952:
Science fiction and fantasy author Tim Powers is born in Buffalo, New York. His
1987 novel On Stranger Tides was adapted into Disney's 2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
(the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series).
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