2005:
The Disneyland Resort Alumni Club hosts a 50th Reunion/Dinner at the Disneyland Hotel Grand Ballroom.
1907:
Disney Legend Roy Williams, Roy, the "Big Mooseketeer" on TV's Mickey Mouse Club, is born in Coleville, Washington. He began working for Disney in 1930 and as a writer/gagman contributed to such animated classics as Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Cured Duck, Donald's Double Trouble, and Make Mine Music. As a sketch artist, Williams designed more than 100 insignias for the armed forces during Word War II, including the award-winning Flying Tigers insignia. He also designed the famous "Mouse" ears!
1932:
Disney's first full-color animated film (and the studio's first Technicolor cartoon),
Flowers and Trees premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Disney's
short preceeds the MGM feature film Strange Interlude. This 29th Silly Symphony will be considered a landmark in
Disney animation and earn Disney the first Academy Award ever given for Best Cartoon Short Subject.
Also released is Disney's cartoon short Just Dogs - the final black & white Silly Symphony and one of only two
Symphonies to feature a character named Pluto.
1956:
At Disneyland, the Mineral Hall Exhibit opens. Operated by Ultra-Violet Products, the Mineral Hall features a free exhibit, which includes a mineral display lit by black-light. (The attraction will remain in operation until 1963.)
1973:
TIME magazine runs the article
"Disney After Walt Is a Family Affair" in this week's issue.
1975:
Tiffini Hale, a member of Disney Channel's The All New Mickey
Mouse Club, is born in Palm Springs, California.
1986:
Disney's Flight of the Navigator, starring Joey Cramer, is released in theaters.
A 12-year-old boy named David is abducted by an alien space craft and sent 8 years into the future. The film also features Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright, Sarah Jessica Parker and Howard Hesseman.
1993:
Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril (French for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril) debuts at Disneyland Paris. A wild roller coaster, it is based on the Indiana Jones films. Sponsored by Esso, guests are taken on an adventure riding in a mining train through a lost temple.
1998:
Disney launches its first cruise ship, the Disney Magic.
It is one of the three largest ships in the world.
1999:
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, officially opens to all guests as part of the largest property-wide expansion in Disney World history. The indoor steel roller
coaster features a high-speed launch of 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds, three inversions, rock-concert lighting
and a specially created Aerosmith soundtrack blasting from 120 on board speakers in each coaster
train - all firsts for a Disney World attraction.
Also at Walt Disney World, FASTPASS begins in the Magic Kingdom
on Space Mountain and Splash Mountain.
2006:
The Cheetah Girls perform at Disney's California Adventure.
High School Musical premieres on Disney Channel Brazil.
To commemorate the 40th
anniversary of Disneyland, Disney
created a series of collector
cards, one for each year the park had been open. A card for each
year represented an event or an
attraction. The cards were handed out to visitors to the park starting with the "1955" card on January
21,1995 and ending March 2, 1995
with the "1995" card.
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1943:
Disney's Goofy cartoon Victory Vehicles is released. Directed by Jack Kinney and animated
by Ward Kimball, Goofy demonstrates different modes of transportation for wartime travel.
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1942:
Disney delivers the animated short Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line to the Conservation Division of the War Production Board. Minnie Mouse is taught the importance of conservation and recycling of bacon grease, which can be turned into glycerine for the war effort.
1948:
Disney releases the animated short The Trial of Donald Duck, the last cartoon directed by Jack King. All Donald wants is a cup of coffee, but he gets mixed up in a misunderstanding about the abnormally huge bill. (Animator Jack King will retire later in the year.)
1982:
Walt Disney Productions releases the live-action drama Tex, directed by Tim Hunter and based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. A coming-of-age adventure about two brothers who struggle to make it on their own when their mother dies and their father leaves them in their Oklahoma home, Tex stars Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler and Meg Tilly.
July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years).
There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year.
1963:
Actress Lisa Kudrow is born in Encino, California. Best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay
on the television sitcom Friends, Kudrow provided the voice of Aphrodite for episodes of Disney's Hercules:
The Animated Series.
1971:
The summer edition of My Weekly Reader (Vol. 40 issue 7) features the article "Disney World Rushes To Get Ready." A publication for young readers, it gives children a peak at what is coming from a little Disney project in central Florida. The cover shows a child constructing his own castle and encouraging his dog to help out as opening day is only two months away!
