2005:
Robert B. Sherman and his brother Richard M. Sherman are inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. They have written tunes for such Disney features as The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and The Tigger Movie. Their theme park music includes There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow for the Carousel of Progress and It's A Small World for the attraction of the same name.
1931:
Actress Joan Marshall, whose Disney credits include the live-action featuresThe Happiest Millionaire and The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1934:
Donald Duck makes his very first film appearance in The Wise Little Hen,
a Silly Symphony short
by Walt Disney.
Donald's appearance in this cartoon, as created by animator Dick Lundy, is similar to his modern
look except his features are more elongated, his body plumper, and his feet bigger.
The short features the voices of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Pinto Colvig as Peter Pig.
1939:
The Donald Duck short Beach Picnic is released. This cartoon features a
frustrated Donald & Pluto dealing with a rubber sea horse named Sylvester and a marauding tribe of Red Indian ants!
1989:
The Disney Channel airs episode 35 of MMC. Today is Hall of Fame Day!
1961:
Actor Michael J. Fox, the voice of Milo James Thatch in Disney's 2001 release Atlantis: The Lost Empire, is born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is also
the voice of Chance in Disney's 1993 live-action feature Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
(Fox's most famous roles include Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy, Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties, and Mike Flaherty from Spin City.)
1963:
Actor Johnny Depp, the star of Disney's live-action
Pirates of the Caribbean series, is born in Owensboro, Kentucky.
1984:
Laserphonic Fantasy, a show at Disney's EPCOT, begins. (The show is essentially a less sophisticated version of Illuminations, without the spotlighting of individual countries.)
Donald Duck and Clarence Nash (the voice of Donald) lead a ticker-tape parade through Disneyland. The event (which includes balloons, bands, singers, dancers and a host of his Disney character pals) celebrates 50 years since Donald Duck's film debut in The Wise Little Hen.
2002:
Toon Disney celebrates Donald Duck's 68th birthday with a special event called
"A Whole Darn Day of Ducks." Starting at 10 a.m., the channel broadcasts nine hours of cartoons starring ducks.
Starting on this day, a credit card is required to secure priority seating for Walt Disney World's very popular Cinderella's Royal Table Once Upon a Time character breakfast.
2004:
Donald Fauntleroy Duck celebrates his 70th birthday with a party at Disneyland Paris!
2006:
The Disney/Pixar animated feature Cars is generally released.
The 4th and final Star Wars Weekend of the 2006 season takes place at the Disney-MGM Studios in Florida.
A brush fire flares up near Walt Disney World, causing parts of U.S.
192 to be closed.
1998:
Walt Disney Records releases the CD Disney's Instrumental Impressions.
After Clarence Nash's
passing, Donald Duck's
voice was taken up by
Disney animator Tony
Anselmo, who had been
trained under Mr. Nash
personally.
Happy B-day Donald!
1932:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Musical Farmer is released in theaters.
1978:
Disney's live-action The Cat from Outer Space, starring Ronnie Schell
(as an army sergeant & the voice of Jake the cat), Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, McLean Stevenson (making his film debut),
Alan Young, and Roddy McDowell, is released.
2007:
Press Previews begin this day for Disneyland's newest attraction Finding Nemo: Submarine Voyage (based on the Disney/Pixar animated feature). The attraction will open to the general public June 11.
Donald Duck turns 73!
1962:
Meet Me at Disneyland (a limited TV series broadcast live on KTTV directly from the Anaheim park) airs the episode "Main Street, USA." Hosted by Johnny Jacobs, the program includes musical numbers and performances by the Dapper Dans, The Firehouse Five, and The Disneyland Band. The series is designed to boost park attendance during the summer weeknights.
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1935:
Voice actor Peter Renaday is born Pierre L. Renoudet in Louisiana. He is the voice of the
milkman (who chases O'Malley and the other cats out of his truck) in Disney's 1970 The Aristocats. You may have
also heard Renaday's voice in such park attractions as Country Bear Jamboree (as Henry the Bear), Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (as the narrator of the "Walt Disney Story" film), and Adventure Thru Inner Space (as
Comchatman).
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"Germany, the land of Goethe, Thomas Mann and Beethoven, has an unlikely pop culture hero:
Donald Duck. Just as the French are obsessed with Jerry Lewis, the Germans see a richness and complexity to
the Disney comic that isn’t always immediately evident to people in the cartoon duck’s homeland."
-literary critic Susan Bernofsky
2009:
Happy birthday Donald Duck! Thanks for quacking us up for 75 years!
"Disney Channel Playlist," an all-new compilation featuring Disney Channel stars performing show theme songs and soundtrack cuts, hits stores and digital outlets.
Drew Seeley joins the Broadway cast of The Little Mermaid as Prince Eric.
Seeley is known to fans as pop star Joey Parker in the romantic musical comedy "Another Cinderella Story" (opposite Selena Gomez), which will receive its Disney Channel premiere July 11.
1908:
Actor Bob Cummings is born in Joplin, Missouri. In July 1955 he will help host the grand opening of Disneyland. (Cummings, an affable, ever-youthful actor starred in scores of films and four television series, including the situation comedy "The Bob Cummings Show.")
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