2004:
Disney's animated short Lorenzo has its European premiere in Annecy, France. It is based upon pencil sketches and a story idea created by Disney
veteran Joe Grant 20 years ago!
1975:
Walt Disney World's version of Mission to Mars - developed with
NASA - debuts in Tomorrowland. It replaces the Flight to the Moon attraction (which opened in
December 1971). Guests first enter a viewing area known as Mission Control, which is modeled after a typical
mission control center with chairs and control panels for about ten seated Audio-Animatronic "technicians" whose
backs are to the audience. Facing the audience is the Audio-Animatronic flight director Mr. Johnson (voiced by
radio & TV announcer George Walsh) who shows film clips and explains how man has made numerous advances
in space travel. After the pre-show, guests board their spacecraft - a circular theater with stadium-like seating
featuring circular flat screens on the ceiling and floor. Third Officer Collins (voiced by veteran Pete Renoudet)
serves as the guests' in-flight narrator.
(Mission To Mars will close its doors October 4, 1993 and later re-open as the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien
Encounter. Today the area is known as Stitch's Great Escape!)
1989:
Disney Channel airs episode 33 of MMC. Today is Anything Can Happen Day!
1999:
Bear in the Big Blue House - Live on Stage opens at Disney-MGM Studios
in Florida. The interactive stage show will run through August 2001.
2002:
Disney's animated series Kim Possible premieres on Disney Channel with 3 back-to-back episodes. The series revolves around the life of Kimberly Ann Possible (voiced by Christy Carlson Romano), a junior adventurer who deals with super-villains trying to take over the world and her own family & school life. The debut episode "Crush" finds Kim taking on the evil Dr. Drakken - who is using stolen Japanese game technology to build a giant robot! In episode #2 "Sink or Swim," Kim, on her way to a cheer competition with the Middleton Cheer squad, gets stranded at an old camp with Ron Stoppable. "The New Ron" - episode #3 - finds Ron gaining attention with a haircut Kim convinced him to get.
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1946:
BBC-TV in England returns to the airwaves after a near 7-year absence (due to the
second World War). In an attempt to emphasize continuity, the first day's program includes the cartoon
Mickey's Gala Premiere (the same Disney cartoon that had been abruptly interrupted in September 1939 - the day Germany attacked Poland).
The Mickey Mouse cartoon Squatter's Rights, directed by Jack Hannah and featuring
the voice of Jim Macdonald as Mickey, is released. Chip 'n' Dale take up residence in Mickey's
stove while Pluto tries to chase them out!
1894:
Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky, an aviation pioneer, inventor, and
influential advocate of strategic air power, is born in Georgia. He is famous as the
author of the influential 1942 book, Victory Through Air Power, which Disney adapted into a motion picture
and released in July 1943. Seversky served as the film's technical consultant. Appearing less than six
months after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the United States' entry into World War II, his book was
extremely popular, influential, and controversial. Seversky advocated the formation of an independent air
force, the development of long-range bombers and a commitment to strategic use of air power to win World
War II.
2006:
Disney World announces that the Cinderella Castle apartment will be
completely decorated and upholstered as a 'royal bedchamber', which
can sleep up to four people. It will become available as a once-in-a-lifetime experience
during the Year of a Million Dreams celebration taking place at all eleven Disney theme parks. An
overnight stay in the apartment will be a prize randomly awarded to a guest at the Magic
Kingdom, or any park at the Walt Disney World Resort.
1993:
Actor Jordan Fry - the voice of Lewis in Disney's 2007 Meet the Robinsons - is born in Washington.
1950:
Walt Disney pens a letter of agreement between himself and writer Cameron Shipp, who is to write a serialized biography of Disney for the Saturday Evening Post.
(It will take another 6 years before the series of articles appears in print.)
1940:
Disney's Donald Duck film Mr. Duck Steps Out, directed by Jack King and written by Carl Barks, is released. Donald visits the house of his new love interest for their first date. But their time alone is soon interrupted by Huey, Dewey and Louie who have followed their uncle and compete with him for the attention of Daisy! Clarence Nash supplies the voices for Donald as well as Daisy, and Huey, Dewey & Louie.
1990:
The Disney Channel Premiere Film Back Home debuts.
2005:
Disney Channel debuts the That's So Raven episode "Mismatch Maker." The episode is directed by Fred Savage (star of the TV series The Wonder Years.)
Disney releases the album Disney Girlz Rock featuring Hilary & Haylie Duff, Raven, Everlife, Christy Carlson Romano, Christina Aguilera, and Aly & AJ.
Mighty Sound releases Got No Strings, the newest album from singer Michelle Shocked. The most kid-friendly of Michelle Shocked's three simultaneous June 2005 releases, Got No Strings is a collection of Disney soundtrack tunes.
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1969:
Actress Kim Rhodes is born in Portland, Oregon. Fans of The Suite Life of Zack &
Cody know her as Carey Martin, a headlining singer at the Tipton Hotel as well as the mother of Zack and Cody.
(Soap opera fans will recognize Rhodes from both Another World and As the World Turns.)
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WDW's Mission to Mars debuts
"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard our McDonnell-Douglas DC-88 space liner for today's Mission to Mars. The captain has asked that you remain in your seats at all times. And please, no smoking."
-Tomorrowland Cast Member
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1997:
Disney's Nightmare Ned airs on ABC-TV with two new episodes - "Girl Trouble" and "Canadian Bacon."
Celebration, Florida (the town that Disney built) is located on the south side of Route 192, five miles south of Walt Disney World at the intersection of I-4 and
U.S. Highway 192 East.
Kim Possible premieres
2010:
Toy Story 3 is featured in Apple's iPhone OS 4 Event with Steve Jobs demoing a
Toy Story 3 themed iAd written in HTML5.
1980:
"Disneyland presents Top 40 Night" takes place in Anaheim to help celebrate the
park's 25th birthday. Nighttime entertainment includes K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Shalamar, Papa Doo
Run Run, and Teddy Buckner & His Jazz All-Stars.
1918:
Disney storyman and artist Del Connell is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. First hired at Disney's Hyperion Ave studios in 1939, Connell worked under Joe Grant in the Character Model Department. His contributions included sculpting animation models for Dumbo, Lady and the Tramp, Fantasia and The Reluctant Dragon, and creating, writing, and storyboarding the short The Pelican and the Snipe. Just prior to being drafted into the U.S. army, Cornell (along with Bill Peet) spent a year adapting Lewis Carroll’s "Alice in Wonderland" into a feature film. From 1954-1987 he wrote and/or edited thousands of stories for Western Publishing comic books for various studios including Disney. Connell also wrote and sketched the very earliest drafts of Disneyland's first guest brochure.
