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1924:
Disney's Alice Comedy Alice and the Dog Catcher - a short mixing live-action and animation - is released. The film features Virginia Davis as Alice.
2005:
Disneyland's improved Space Mountain begins soft openings.
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1911:
Entertainer Charles David Thomas is born in Lewistown, Montana. Better known as "Bub," he will go on to become one of the original singing Dapper Dans of Walt Disney World.
1932:
Walt Disney signs a merchandising arrangement with Herman Kay Kamen. This makes
Kamen the sole representative for Walt's company.
The Official Bulletin of the Mickey Mouse Club (Volume II Number 12) is published.
1933:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premiere (or Premier - as Disney uses the spellings of both) is released. A "movie within a movie," Mickey is the guest of honor at the debut of his latest film. Caricatures of movie stars - animated by Joe Grant (his first Disney credit) - include Laurel & Hardy, Clark Gable, Mae West, Jimmy Durante, Greta Garbo, and the Marx Brothers.
1946:
Original Mouseketeer Karen Pendleton is born in Glendale, California.
She also appears in the 1956 Disney feature Westward Ho the Wagons!
1951:
Singer/actor Terrence Mann is born in Kentucky. In 1994 he will originate
the role of the Beast in Disney's Broadway musical hit Beauty and the Beast.
1959:
Disney's Donald Duck film How to Have an Accident at Work is released.
Popular Mechanics runs the article "Disneyland Adds Submarine and Monorail."
1966:
Primeval World debuts at Disneyland. Originally featured as part of the Ford Magic Skyway attraction for the 1964-1965 World's Fair, guests aboard the Disneyland Railroad travel through a diorama featuring animatronic dinosaurs.
1970:
Disney's comedy film The Boatniks, starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell, Wally Cox, Don Ameche and Bob Hastings, is released.
1975:
At Walt Disney World, the WEDway PeopleMover, a futuristic way of shuttling people around Tomorrowland, opens. It is located at Rockettower Plaza, where passengers enter and exit onto a circular moving platform. The ride is based on Disneyland's PeopleMover.
1986:
Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom celebrates Bub Thomas - of the popular Dapper Dans barbershop quartet - turning 75 years young!
1988:
The Norway Pavilion opens at EPCOT.
1994:
The Lion King Celebration Parade debuts at Disneyland. Moving down the street to the music of "I Just Can't Wait to be King," the parade features detailed floats that depict artist interpretations of various African landscapes, and stars all the characters from the hit The Lion King. It is the first parade to include an Animatronic character on a moving float!
At Disney World's EPCOT park, Innoventions East and West
open replacing the outdated CommuniCore
with all new exhibits. Innoventions is a showcase of new
products and ideas covering 100,000 square feet.
1996:
At Walt Disney World, the last of the Epcot resorts planned
around Crescent Lake, Disney's BoardWalk Inn opens at 2101 N. Epcot Resorts Blvd. The resort re-creates the vacation charm of the Mid-Atlantic coastal cottages of the 1930s. It is located on a small lake on the Epcot-Studio waterway, visible to and just across from the Yacht and Beach Club Resorts. The resort's Atlantic Dance Nightclub, ESPN Club, BoardWalk Bakery, and Spoodles Restaurant all debut as well. The BoardWalk Villas (a Disney Vacation Club property) opens on this day too.
1997:
The sound effects demonstration attraction ABC Sound Studio opens at the Disney-MGM Studios Park in Florida.
1999:
The Dapper Dans are invited to perform a set on the SPEBSQSA International Convention contest stage after the quartet semi-finals. After a warm reception from the audience, Mickey Mouse enters to greet over 10,000 barbershoppers who have come to Anaheim. The Dapper Dans then officially receive the Charter and Resolution for the Honorary Main Street U.S.A. Disneyland Chapter from SPEBSQSA President Ed Waesche. (SPEBSQSA stands for Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.)
Euro Disney releases the theme park album A Day At Disneyland Paris.
2002:
At Disney World, the Atlantic seaboard-inspired Disney's Beach Club Villas opens at 1800 Epcot Resorts Blvd. Essentially an add-on to the Beach Club and Yacht Club resort complex, the villas are a Disney Vacation Club property and are located just a short walk from Epcot.
2003:
The Florida Indoor Clean Air Act takes effect at Walt Disney World. It requires all enclosed
indoor workplaces (including resort lobbies, convention spaces, common areas, dining locations and enclosed
backstage areas) to be designated as non-smoking.
At Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Goofy's New Country Dance Party premiers
at The Diamond Horseshoe.
2004:
Villain's Lair, a shop in Disneyland's Fantasyland opened since October 1998, closes.
1998:
The Disney Magic departs from Venice, Italy (where she was built) on her way to Florida, USA.
The sci-fi/disaster film Armageddon - distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures and starring Bruce Willis - is released in theaters. When an asteroid the size of Texas heads for Earth, the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside!
1935:
As of this date, any employee who has been with the Disney Studio a full year is
granted a two-week vacation.
Disneyland's original Tinker Bell
was a 71-year-old Hungarian
circus performer named Tiny
Kline. She was the first
to fly off the top of the
Matterhorn on a zip
line, which was probably easy for
her - she previously worked as a
stunt aerialist, hanging from a
flying airplane
by her teeth!
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"Tomorrowland Transit Authority Metroliner non-stop now departing Rockettower Plaza Station for a round trip Super Skyway tour."
1960:
Future Disney Legend Antonio Bertini joins Disney as an assistant to the
Company's Italian sales representative Major John "Jack" William Holmes.
Bertini had answered an anonymous ad in the local newspaper for a job.
Little did he know at the time, the Company was Walt Disney Productions
and he was about to embark on his life-long career.
"Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?" -Phil Silvers
(co-star of The Boatniks)
1957:
Disneyland's Casa De Fritos, a Mexican eatery in operation since August 1955, opens at a new location - a one-story adobe structure (which will later become Casa Mexicana). Its famous chip dispensing machine is also relocated ... to a fenced-in area just outside the entrance.
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1987:
Adventures in Babysitting, a comedy-adventure starring Elisabeth Shue, is released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures. It is the first PG-13 rated film released by a Disney film division and the 13th feature by Touchstone.
Disneyland's Primeval World debuts
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