2005:
Disney's Soda Fountain and Studio Store on Hollywood Boulevard, adjacent
to the historic El Capitan Theatre, begins serving the public the same day
Herbie: Fully Loaded is generally released. The film features the Aly & AJ re-make of
"Walking on Sunshine" (originally a hit for Katrina & The Waves).
1917:
Walt Disney's older brother Roy O. Disney enlists in the U.S. Navy along with his friend Mitch Francis. Roy will first be assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station outside of Chicago, and eventually be transferred to Charleston, South Carolina - where he will be responsible for transporting material between New York and France. (Roy wil later marry Mitch's sister Edna!)
1918:
Character actor Richard Eastham is born in Opelousas, Louisiana. His Disney credits include the live-action features That Darn Cat! and Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus.
1949:
Disney re-releases Dumbo in theaters for the second time.
1955:
Disney's Lady and the Tramp, the studio's first feature-length cartoon produced in CinemaScope, is generally released. Directed by Clyde Geronomi, Wilfred Jackson, & Hamilton Luske, the film features the voices of Peggy Lee (who has also co-written the music), Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, and Bill Thompson. (The idea for the film comes from a short story by
Ward Greene entitled "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog.")
1970:
The Walt Disney Archives is established on the studio lot in Burbank, California -
with help from David R. Smith - and charged with recording and preserving the
history of Disney. Smith's connection with Disney dates back to 1967 when, as a librarian at UCLA, he
compiled an extensive bibliography on Walt Disney, spending over a year researching all Disney publications
and productions.
1976:
Terra McNair, a member of Disney Channel's The All New Mickey Mouse Club (for seasons 4-5) is born in San Jose, California.
1977:
Disney's 23rd animated feature film The Rescuers is released in U.S. theaters. The movie features the voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Joe Flynn, and James Macdonald. The song "Someone's Waiting For You," written by Carol Connors (lyrics), Ayn Robbins (lyrics), & Sammy Fain (music), will be nominated for an Academy Award.
1985:
Videopolis - a high-tech nightclub style outdoor entertainment
venue - opens in Disneyland's Fantasyland.
Actress Lindsay Ridgeway - who portrays the little girl in the Tower of Terror
pre-show video - is born in Riverside, California. (Fans of the TV series Boy Meets World will
remember her as younger sister Morgan.)
1988:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is generally released.
1997:
Disney's Hercules has its California premiere at Cal Arts in Los Angeles.
2001:
Disney's animated feature Atlantis: The Lost Empire is released. The film includes the voices
of Leonard Nimoy, Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Jim Varney, Don Novello, & David Ogden Stiers.
The Disney Channel debuts the Lizzie McGuire episode "Lizzie's Nightmares."
2004:
Walt Disney Records releases "The Cheetah Girls Special Edition," the soundtrack from the Disney Channel Original Movie.
Six classic Disney tunes are chosen as part of The American Film Institute's top 100 songs. Broadcast on CBS-TV,
AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs is hosted by John Travolta.
Disney is represented in the list with -
"When You Wish Upon A Star" (from Pinocchio) at #7
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" (from Snow White) at #19
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (from Mary Poppins) at #36
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (from Song of the South) at #47
"Beauty and the Beast" (from Beauty and the Beast) at #62
"Hakuna Matata" (from The Lion King) at #99.
2006:
The first of two special on-line Disney auction charity events (to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation) begin. Packages to bid on include a private boat ride with a Walt Disney Imagineer on Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland and two tickets to the July 6, 2006 sold out Pirates of the Caribbean: A Moonlit Voyage event. (The second auction begins July 6.)
Virgnia Davis, who starred in Walt Disney's early Alice Comedies, appears in person at the Hollywood Heritage Museum in Hollywood, California.
In Florida, Radio Disney hosts The Disney Channel's So Hot Summer Concert featuring Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus of the Disney Channel hit show performs twice as Hannah at Disney World's Typhoon Lagoon.
Hollywood Records'
(established by Disney in 1989)
very first release was the Arachnophobia motion picture soundtrack in 1990. Today the label releases albums by such artists as Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers, and Aly & AJ.
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2007:
Epcot's newly-updated American Adventure debuts. It now includes
moments from 9-11-2001, current military operations, and other
recent events.
A Red Carpet Premiere for Ratatouille takes place at the
Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California.
She's from the leash and license set ... he's footloose and collar free!
Two tiny heroes, one big adventure!
JUNE
A comedy with great taste.
2008:
Award-winning comedian-actor George Carlin passes away at age 71 in Los Angeles, California. Carlin is the voice of Fillmore the VW bus in Disney/Pixar's Cars and Zugor in Disney's Tarzan II. Known for his raunchy, but insightful humor, Carlin was best known for his routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television."
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?" -George Carlin
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1920:
Disney Legend Paul Frees, one of the most successful voice
actors of all time, is born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago, Illinois.
His large body of Disney work includes Goofy's Freeway Troubles, The Absent-Minded
Professor, the voice of Ludwig Von Drake for TV shows, and a number of voices for park
attractions such as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion. (Frees also
voices both John and George in the 1960s cartoon series based on The Beatles and the
Burgermeister in the 1970 TV special "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town.")
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THIS DAY MADE
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1971:
Disney releases the live-action feature film Scandalous John starring Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey, Harry Morgan, and John Ritter.
1935:
It is widely believed that producer, director, editor, animator, writer, publisher,
storyboard artist, and all-around fun guy Floyd Norman is born on this day in
California. Growing up in Santa Barbara, he will draw before he can even walk! Norman's Disney credits
will include Sleeping Beauty, Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, Mary Poppins, Sword in the Stone, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, and Dinosaur. His Pixar credits will include Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.
Walt Disney Archives established
1938:
Walt Disney receives an honorary degree from Yale University in New Haven,
Connecticut. Also receiving at the commencement ceremony are Lord Tweedsmuir, the governor
general of Canada, Justice Stanley Reed of the U.S. Supreme Court and German novelist Thomas Mann.
"He has accomplished something that defied all the efforts and experiments of the laboratories in zoology and
biology; he has given impressive significance to the word anima in animated; he has given animals souls. ... His
work has the elements of a great romantic art; the beautiful, the fantastic, the grotesque, all combining in
irresistible and ineffable charm." -Professor of English William Lyon Phelps
2009:
The new Luxo Jr. Audio-Animatronic (the small hopping desk lamp included in Pixar's corporate logo) unofficially premieres at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
1969:
Disneyland by Starlite - a 7-day promotion to get more guests in the park at night for the extended summer hours - kicks off in Anaheim. This evening's entertainment features country music singer/guitarist Roy Clark.
