1954:
Guitarist-composer Trevor Rabin, who wrote the music for Disney's Remember the Titans film and Epcot's Mission: SPACE attraction, is born in Johannesburg,
South Africa. (Music fans may remember him as a member of the progressive rock group, Yes.)
2006:
Walt Disney Pictures releases the film Glory Road.
1927:
Disney Legend Antonio Bertini is born in Milan, Italy. He will go on to
work as a sales representative for Disney in character merchandising.
1930:
The first Mickey Mouse comic strip is published in the New York Mirror and
other Randolph Hearst-owned newspapers throughout the country. The strip
(licensed by King Features Syndicate) is written by Walt Disney himself, drawn by Ub Iwerks and inked
by Win Smith. The first week or so of the strip will feature a loose adaptation of the animated short
Plane Crazy. (Later Floyd Gottfredson will take over the Mickey strip and draw it for 45 years.)
1934:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The China Shop is released. Directed by
Wilfred Jackson, when the "Ye Olde China Shop" closes, the china pieces come to life and dance!
Released the same day is Shanghaied, a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Directed by
Bert Gillett, Mickey and Minnie are captured on Pete's pirate ship, but fight their way to freedom
against a whole crew of identical, bulldog roughnecks!
1938:
Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has its New York premiere at the Radio City Music Hall. It is the first Disney film to ever debut at the famous theater.
1939:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Lucky Day is released. Directed by Jack King, mail carrier Donald has to avoid a number of bad luck omens because it's Friday the 13th!
1961:
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the voice of Princess Atta in Disney's 1998 A Bug's Life, is born in New York City. (You may recognize her from both hit series Seinfeld & The New Adventures of Old Christine.)
1963:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs "Little Dog Lost."
1970:
Actor Keith Coogan, who stars in Disney's 1989 Cheetah and is the voice of Young Tod in Disney's 1981 The Fox and the Hound, is born in Palm Springs, California. (Movie fans may recognize him as Kenny in the 1991 comedy feature Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.) Keith is the grandson of actor Jackie Coogan!
1993:
Disney Legend and Imagineer Ken Anderson passes away in La Canada-Flintridge, California. Often referred to as Walt Disney's "Jack of All Trades,"
Anderson worked as an architect, artist, animator, storyteller and designer.
2001:
Disney's House of Mouse (narrated by comedy veteran John Cleese)
debuts on ABC-TV with the episode "The Stolen Cartoons."
House of Mouse is a series centering on a nightclub-type theater, where Mickey
Mouse himself emcees. Stars of every Disney film ever made are seated in the audience, often becoming part of the show themselves! Wanting to shut down the House of Mouse and kick out Mickey and his crew, Pete steals this day's cartoons! The high-energy "House of Mouse" opening title theme is written, produced, and performed by rocker Brian Setzer.
1977:
Actor Orlando Bloom - known for his role of Will Turner in all 3 of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean feature films - is born in Kent, England.
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2007:
Johnny and the Sprites, a new half-hour series, debuts on Disney Channel.
1931:
Tony Award-winning actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher Charles Nelson Reilly is born in the Bronx, New York. He is the voice of King Midas in Disney's TV series Hercules, and the voice of Dutch Sparkle in Goof Troop. (Reilly is best known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game.)
In February 1986, an additional
150 rooms were added to Disney World's Golf Resort and its name
was changed to the Disney Inn. Located near the Magic Kingdom and just southwest of the Polynesian Resort, today it is known as Shades of Green - a United States Department of Defense-owned resort.
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1966:
Actor Patrick Dempsey is born in Lewiston, Maine.
He appears as Robert "Rob" Philip in Disney's 2007 feature Enchanted.
2008:
Entertainment news anchor Brooke Anderson announces the Best Animated Feature Film winner Ratatouille at The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards Announcement at the Beverly Hilton in California. (Due to the on-going WGA strike, no formal ceremony takes place.)
Brazil's Adriano Bastos races to his fourth straight victory in the 15th
Walt Disney World Marathon, easily winning in 2 hours, 20 minutes,
56 seconds. John Garton of Voorhees, New Jersey, comes in second in 2:35:02, and Lance Jones of Saranac, Michigan, finished third in 2:37:57. In the women's race, St. Petersburg runner Melanie Peters races to victory in 2:47:29. Sonja Friend-Uhl of West Palm Beach, Florida, finishes second in 2:49:25.
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"I write for what I think is best for the film. In the case of "Remember the Titans", an orchestral score seemed appropriate. Given the choice, I would say I love writing orchestral scores most. Jerry Bruckheimer told me recently that "Remember the Titans" is his most licensed score, which is very flattering." -Trevor Rabin
"Ken Anderson generated a lot of those original storylines in the late 1950s before the team that went on to do the Haunted Mansion were even on the scene. And elements of those stories work their way into the urban legends, you know the sea captain the bride, he killed her on their wedding night all that stuff. A lot of those elements did have their basis in legitimate stories and I all the original treatments at home. You know so I could see the progression and some of the treatments were literally only weeks apart when Ken worked on these. And you know we never throw anything away at Imagineering, ideas never die so to speak." -Imagineer Jason Surrell
1942:
The Disney Studio delivers an animated film to the National Film Board of Canada titled All Together. Featuring Mickey Mouse and all his pals, it encourages the purchase of war bonds to finance the ongoing world war.
