1912:
Director, writer, producer, narrator, & Disney Legend James Algar is
born in Modesto, California. After receiving his master's degree in journalism, he will join the Disney Studios in 1934. At Disney he will create many nature and animal motion pictures, such as The African Lion and In Beaver Valley. Algar will also pen 5 Academy Award-winning films for Disney, including
The Living Desert.
1919:
Actor & Disney Legend Richard Todd is born in Dublin, Ireland. His Disney credits include the live-action features The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Robin Hood, The Sword and the Rose as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue as Rob Roy.
1928:
Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short Sky Scrappers is released.
1929:
Walt Disney's trademark application for the image of Mickey Mouse is filed with the United States Patent Office.
1961:
The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the segments
"The Titlemakers" and "Nature's Half Acre."
1969:
Disney's family feature Rascal, starring Steve Forrest and Bill Mumy, is released along with the drama Hang Your Hat On The Wind, featuring Rick Natoli.
1975:
Recording artist Mylin Brooks, a member of Disney Channel's
The All New Mickey Mouse Club, is born in the Philippines.
1977:
Walt Disney World's version of the Main Street Electrical Parade debuts. (It will run
through September 1992 when it is replaced with Spectromagic, and then return to the park again in May 1999.)
1986:
Actor Shia LaBeouf, the star of Disney Channel's Even Stevens and the Disney
feature films The Greatest Game Ever Played and Holes, is born in Los Angeles,
California. LaBeouf is also the host of the 2002 documentary Beauty and the Beast: Disney's Animation Magic.
(Sci-fi fans know him for his role of Sam Witwicky in both the features Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of
the Fallen.)
1993:
At Disneyland, the Motor Boat Cruise located on the border of Fantasyland
and Tomorrowland (& opened since June 1957) closes permanently.
2004:
The Disney Channel Original Movie Zenon: Z3 premieres.
2005:
The National Kidney Foundation of Florida hosts the Gift of Life 5K Race for Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness at Epcot. The race is designed to raise financial donations as well as awareness for organ donations.
2006:
Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone close the 2006 Flower Power Concert Series at Epcot with 3 final performances of a 4-day run.
1983:
At EPCOT, the Refreshment Outpost snack bar opens in World Showcase.
In 2000 the
United States Library of Congress deemed Disney's 1953
The Living Desert (co-written by James Algar) "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the
National Film Registry.
1960:
Disney's film The Sign of Zorro, starring Guy Williams, Henry Calvin,
Gene Sheldon, and Romney Brent, is released. Don Diego (Guy Williams)
returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of his mute servant Bernardo, free the pueblo from his oppression! The film was created from 8 edited episodes of Disney's hit TV series.
2007:
Disneyland's newest attraction Finding Nemo: Submarine Voyage (based on the Disney/Pixar animated feature) opens to the general public.
Variety reports that Pixar's release for 2009 will be an animated feature titled Up, about a 70-year-old man who teams with a wilderness ranger to fight beasts and villains. Pete Docter (of Monsters, Inc.) is directing along with Pixar veteran Bob Peterson - who is also writing the script.
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2008:
Disney Channel kicks off the promotion machine for its movie Camp Rock with a star-studded premiere at the legendary Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. The stars of the telepic, most notably the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato, arrive at the event greeted by screaming young fans.
1992:
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is widely released in theaters in Australia.
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Actor Shia LaBeouf born
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