2005:
Today's Disney DVD releases include: Disneyland - The Secrets,
Stories and Magic of the Happiest Place on Earth, The Best of the Original Mickey Mouse Club, Mickey Mouse Club: The Best of Britney,
Justin and Christina, and Vintage Mickey.
Also released is the audio CD Walt Disney Takes You to Disneyland, the album that marked the beginning of Disneyland Records in 1956.
1925:
Disney's Alice Comedy Alice Wins the Derby, featuring Margie Gay as Alice, premieres at the Piccadilly Theater in New York City.
1942:
First-year Mouseketeer Dennis Day is born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1961:
The first draft of a screenplay is completed for a new Disney film titled Mary Poppins.
Disney's live-action adventure film Nikki, Wild Dog of the North is released. Based on the
book "Nomads of the North" by James Oliver Curwood, the films tells the story of a French-Canadian hunter, his
orphaned bear cub and his dog Nikki. A collaboration between Disney Studios and Canada's Cangary
productions, the film was shot with an all-Canadian cast and crew near Banff, Alberta.
1972:
Disney's live-action comedy Now You See Him, Now You Don't starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, and Jim Backus, is released. A chemistry student named Dexter Riley (played by Russell) invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible.
Now You See him, Now You Don't is a sequel to the 1969 film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
1998:
Disney opens its first ESPN Zone (a sports themed restaurant, bar, and sports arena) in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jodi Benson (the voice of Disney's Little Mermaid) finishes her 2-day engagement at Walt Disney World with performances at Epcot's America Gardens Theater.
2002:
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Over the Hill" debuts on Disney Channel.
1895:
Richard Buckminster Fuller - visionary, designer, architect,
futurist, and inventor - is born in Milton, Massachusetts. It is widely believed he developed and
named the geodesic dome first - from field experiments with Kenneth Snelson and others at Black Mountain College (in North Carolina) in the late 1940s. (The invention of the geodesic dome was a solution to the pressing housing
problem at the time.) More than 500,000 geodesic domes have been built around the world since then, including
the 265-foot wide Spaceship Earth at Epcot! Fuller actually coined the phrase "Spaceship Earth" - to express
concern over the use of limited resources available on our planet.
2006:
Hong Kong Disneyland unveils 3 new Tomorrowland attractions - Stitch Encounter, Autopia and UFO Zone. They will officially open to visitors the next day.
1989:
Star Tours (sponsored by Panasonic) opens at Tokyo Disneyland.
It is the second Star Tours attraction in existence (the first opened at Disneyland in 1987).
2000:
The Tonight Show features a skit in which host Jay Leno steals a Disneyland Autopia car, and drives it onto the show with Donald Duck chasing him!
1948:
Four time Academy Award-winning sound designer and sound editor Ben Burtt is born in Jamesville, New York. Best known for his work on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Burtt is responisble for the voices of WALL-E, M-O, and other robots in the 2008 Disney/Pixar computer-animated feature WALL-E. (Most of the characters do not have human voices, but communicate with sounds which resemble voices.)
2008:
The Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra present "Salute to
Disney" a free open air summer concert held in Worcester.
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Tokyo Disneyland's Star Tours opens
"The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow." -Richard Buckminster Fuller
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2011:
The Disneyana Fan Club begins its annual 5-day convention at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden Grove, California.
It is reported that Jiko — The Cooking Place at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge has been named to Wine Enthusiast magazine's Top 100 best in wine and fine dining in the country. The Jiko wine list features one of the largest selections of South African vintages in North America.
