2005:
It is reported that a London Lorry driver named Nick Pain
has named his newborn son Disney.
1918:
Maxine Andrews, one-third of the popular singing trio The Andrews Sisters, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Aside from frequently playing themselves in movies, the sisters sold over 60 million records and lent their singing voices to Disney's Make Mine Music (1946) and Melody Time (1948).
1965:
Disneyland observes its tenth anniversary with a Tencennial parade.
Walt Disney introduces a host of coming attractions
to Disneyland on TV's Walt Disney's Wonderful World
of Color. He is joined in this episode by Julie Reihm, the first Disneyland Ambassador - who he refers to as Miss Disneyland.
1989:
Actor Alex D. Linz, the star of Max Keeble's Big Move, is born in Santa
Barbara, California. His Disney credits also include the voice of Young
Tarzan in the 1999 animated Tarzan.
2001:
Ken Goldstein, executive vice president and managing director of Disney Online, announces that executives Dan Sherlock and Jodie Resnick have been named vice president of marketing and president of entertainment.
2004:
NASA's Spirit rover lands on Mars. Administrator Sean O'Keefe sums up the amazing feat with the simple phrase:
"We're back ... and we're on Mars."
(That quote, along with a replica of the twin robot geologists roving Mars, will later be enshrined outside the Mission:SPACE attraction at Epcot.)
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Disney World's Pop Century Resort features ‘larger than life’ icons of the 20th Century, including 4-storey Rubik’s Cubes & yo-yos and 55-foot mobile phones.
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1994:
At EPCOT, The Kitchen Kabaret Revue, better known as simply Kitchen Kabaret, an Audio-Animatronics theatrical presentation about nutrition, closes. An original attraction in The Land pavilion, it will later re-open as
Food Rocks (and ultimately Soarin'.).
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