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 feature Tarzan
and the 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie Full Court Miracle (as Alex Schlotsky).
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:
After some seven months of interplanetary travel, 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."
NASA's $820 million dual Mars Exploration Rover project - Spirit and still en route Opportunity -
are designed to build upon a legacy of earlier discoveries about Mars. (O'Keefe's quote, along
with a replica of the twin robot geologists, will be enshrined outside the Mission:SPACE
attraction at Epcot on April 6.)
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JAN
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 cell phones. Phase I,
the Classic Years,
opened
JANUARY 3
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'.).
1916:
Artist Lou Debney is born. At age 17 he will join the Disney Studio and begin his career
in the Cutting Department. Debney will soon become assistant director on Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs, and work on most of the sequences directed by Ben Sharpsteen. His Disney
credits will also include all of the Goofy shorts (between 1939-1943), producer of The Mickey
Mouse Club and Zorro, and production coordinator on The Wonderful World of Color. (Lou Debney is the
father of award-winning composer John Debney - known to Disney fans for his work on such features as
Hocus Pocus and Chicken Little.)
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The resort is built around Hourglass Lake and features a bridge called Generation Gap Bridge that joins the Classic Years and the still unbuilt Legendary Years together.
JANUARY 03
THIS DAY MADE
IN THE
USA
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Actor Alex D. Linz born
1931:
A letter (dated January 3) is sent to animator 'Grimm' Natwick in New York City from
the Walt Disney Studio in Hollywood, California. Written by Roy Disney on behalf of Walt, it
offers Natwick a position at the studio. (Roy had traveled to New York City earlier to meet Natwick in an attempt
to persuade him to move to the west coast. Natwick will finally work for Disney starting in 1934.)
Kitchen Kabaret closes
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." -Walt Disney
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SEASON 11 EPISODE 13
