2008:
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards® are announced. Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille
receives five nominations (the most ever for a Disney/Pixar film). In addition to being a nominee for Best
Animated Feature Film, the film also earns director Brad Bird a nomination in the Original Screenplay
category (along with Jan Pinkava & Jim Capobianco). Ratatouille also receives nominations for Achievement
in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) for composer Michael Giacchino; Achievement in Sound
Editing (Randy Thom and Michael Silvers); and Achievement in Sound Mixing
(Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane).
Hong Kong Disneyland kicks off the Chinese New Year
with the "Year of the Mouse" Celebration (through February 24.)
2006:
A celebrity-attended premiere for Disney's newest attraction Monster's, Inc.: Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! takes place at Disney's California Adventure. A dark ride that replaced Superstar Limo, it follows the story of the 2001 animated feature. In soft-openings since December 2005, Monster's, Inc. will officially open the following day.
1934:
Actor/director Bill Bixby is born Wilfred Bailey Bixby in San Francisco, California. He will go on to appear in Disney's 1975 film The Apple Dumpling Gang and direct the short-lived TV series Herbie, the Love Bug. (TV fans will know Bixby best for his roles on My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father and The Incredible Hulk.)
1940:
Actor John Hurt, the narrator of Disney's 2000 release The Tigger Movie and the voice of The Horned King in the 1985 The Black Cauldron, is born in England.
Film fans will know him from such features as Alien, The Elephant Man, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
1949:
A radio show out of Nashville called Wormwood Forest - featuring
puppeteer Tom Tichenor - airs. This episode features Mickey Mouse and
Donald Duck, voiced by Walt Disney and Clarence Nash!
1958:
The Disneyland TV series airs episode 90 - part 1 of "The Littlest Outlaw."
1960:
The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode "Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason." The series, starring actor Leslie Nielsen, is based on a real-life Commander named Franics Marion.
A leader in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, he was nicknamed "The
Swamp Fox" by the British for disrupting their plans with his outstanding guerilla warfare tactics.
1961:
Walt Disney Presents airs "A Salute to Father."
2001:
The Walt Disney Company re-launches its lucrative Winnie the Pooh franchise with a new television series, The Book of Pooh. Using a mix of ancient Japanese puppeteering techniques as well as state-of-the-art computer technology, Pooh and friends come to life as never before.
It is reported that five World War II Royal Navy bombs were detonated at Penny's Bay, the site of the future Disney theme park in Hong Kong.
1989:
At Super Bowl XXIII, quarterback Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers declares, "I'm going to Disney World!" upon his team's 20-16 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
2000:
Mickey Mouse Works airs on ABC-TV with the shorts "How to be a
Baseball Fan" (featuring Goody), "Locksmiths" (featuring Mickey
Mouse), and "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto".
The Disney Channel Original Movie Up, Up, and Away, the story of Scott Marshall, whose parents are superheroes - Bronze Eagle & Warrior
Woman, debuts.
The original 10-elephant
Dumbo ride at Disney World
(running since 1971) was replaced with an improved
16-elephant version in 1993.
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2005:
Disney Channel airs "Dragon Breath," the second episode of the
new animate series American Dragon: Jake Long, for the first time.
1984:
Super Bowl XVIII is played at Tampa Stadium in Florida. The halftime show is a Disney production called "Salute to Superstars of Silver Screen," featuring the University of Florida and Florida State University bands. The Los Angeles Raiders beat the Washington Redskins 38-9.
1954:
The Golden Globes are handed out at Club Del Mar in Santa Monica,
California. Disney's The Living Desert is given a Special Golden Globe Award "for artistic merit."
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"I'll say one thing for television. It has taken children and educated them far beyond anything I was ever involved with as a child." -Bill Bixby
2009:
Tickets for Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion’s 40th anniversary event (at a cost of up to $475 each) sell out within 10 minutes!
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1964:
The live-action comedy The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is released in select U.S. cities. Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent college student, played by future Disney Legend Tommy Kirk, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine! Annette Funicello plays his girlfriend Jennifer (and sings the film's title song written by brothers Robert and Richard Sherman).
2010:
About 400 Walt Disney World employees volunteer to staff phones during a
global telethon aimed at raising money for earthquake-devastated Haiti. They
field calls and process donations out of the resort’s Orlando reservations center during the two-hour Hope for Haiti Now television telethon.
Disneyland's Main Street Cinema opens after a brief refurbishment to install new floor.
Maria Helen Alvarez, one of the original financiers of the Disneyland Hotel, passes
away at age 88 in her Rancho Santa Fe, California home. A millionaire by age 29, she helped
create Tulsa, Oklahoma's very first television station.
Dick Van Dyke, one of the original stars of the 1964 feature Mary Poppins, makes a
surprise appearance in the touring stage version of Mary Poppins at the Ahmanson
Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The 84-year-old Disney Legend does not portray Bert, the Cockney
chimney sweep he made famous in the film ... instead he reprises his other (and less well known) screen role as Mr. Dawes Sr., the crotchety bank president and boss of Poppins’ boss, Mr. Banks! After seeing the Disney-Cameron
Mackintosh production when it first opened in November, Van Dyke volunteered to join the cast for a cameo (and
the role had to be written in - as the character doesn't appear in the stage version). In the audience this evening is
Disney Legends Richard M. Sherman (one of the film’s songwriters) and historian/archivist Dave Smith.
"Old actors don't die, they keep doing the same part over and over." -Dick Van Dyke
