1909:
Songwriter Jerry Livingston is born in Denver, Colorado. He co-wrote the Oscar nominated "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" as well as "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" (for Disney's Cinderella) and "The Unbirthday Song" (for Disney's Alice in Wonderland) along with Mack David and Al Hoffman. One of the leading songwriters of American popular music from the Tin Pan Alley and big band years of the 1930s until the coming of rock 'n roll in the 1960s, Livingston composed the music for such standards as "It's The Talk Of The Town," "Mairzy Doats," and "The Twelfth of Never." Along with David he also wrote "This Is It!" - undoubtedly familiar to fans of Bugs Bunny, and the theme song to Casper the Friendly Ghost.
2003:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is released on
a 2-disc DVD set and a special edition VHS.
1947:
Singer, songwriter & pianist Elton John - the man behind the music for Disney's The Lion King and Aida - is born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex, England. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music.
1954:
Disney is awarded 4 Oscars at the 1953 Academy Awards. The Short
Subjects, Cartoon category is won by Disney's Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom. Disney's True-Life Adventure
Bear Country wins an Oscar for Short Subjects, Two-Reel (ironically beating out Disney's Ben and Me). The
Disney/RKO The Alaskan Eskimo is awarded for Documentary, Short Subject and The True-Life
Adventure The Living Desert wins for Documentary, Feature.
1956:
Actor and 2004 Disney Legend Matthew Garber is born in London, England.
Although he appeared in The Three Lives of Thomasina (his screen debut at age seven) and The Gnome-Mobile, Disney fans know him best as young Michael Banks in the 1964 Mary Poppins.
1960:
The ABC-TV series Walt Disney Presents airs episode 150 - "Elfago Baca: Gus Tomlin is Dead." It is the 10th and final part of the mini-series starring Robert Loggia as a frontier lawyer.
1962:
The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
airs part 3 of "The Prince and the Pauper."
1991:
Touchstones Pictures' Dick Tracy walks away with 3 Oscars at the 1990
Academy Awards (held at the Shrine Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles)
including one for Best Song - Sooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man).
1996:
Animator John Lasseter accepts the Academy Award for Special Achievement for
his "inspired leadership of the Disney/Pixar Toy Story Team resulting in the first
feature-length computer animated film."
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz win Best Song for their "Colors of the Wind,"
from Pocahontas (beating out Randy Newman's "You've Got a Friend in Me" from
Toy Story). The Oscar for Original Musical or Comedy Score also goes to Menken &
Schwartz for their work on Disney's Pocahontas (once again beating out Randy
Newman's score for Toy Story).
Although Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow are nominated for their work on Toy
Story, the Oscar for Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen is given to Christopher McQuarrie for his The
Usual Suspects.
1999:
Elton John appears on TV's Late Show with David Letterman promoting Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, a concept album containing songs that will be used in next year's Broadway stage version of Aida (a Disney production).
2001:
Two-time Academy Award winning producer, director and 1998 Disney
Legend Lawrence M. "Larry" Lansburgh passes away at age 89 at his
home in Eagle Point, Oregon. He worked on a number of well-known
Disney productions, including the original Fantasia and Cinderella. In the
1970s, he produced and directed shows for television's The Wonderful
World of Disney from his southern Oregon home.
2006:
Richard Fleischer - 2003 Disney Legend & veteran director of Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - passes away at age 89 in California. The son of animator Max Fleischer, Richard's directing credits include such well-known motion pictures as Fantastic Voyage, Doctor Dolittle, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Soylent Green, and The Jazz Singer.
Mike Peterson, a linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars, marries his fiance Chantel at Disney World's Wedding Pavilion in Florida.
1986:
Walt Disney World welcomes Don McGrath - the 500 millionth guest to enter a Disney park!
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2007:
Disney's 2005 live-action feature Sky High premieres on Disney Channel.
1964:
The live-action Disney feature The Misadventures of Merlin Jones - starring Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, and Leon Ames - premieres in New York.
1989:
Singer-actress Alyson Michalka, of the sister pop group Aly & AJ, is born in Torrance, California. Disney Channel fans know her both as Keely Teslow on the series Phil of the Future and as Taylor Callum in the 2006 Cow Belles.
2005:
Disney Channel airs the Phil of the Future episode "Milkin' It" for the first time.
Also debuting is The Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode "Maddie Checks In."
The bowling pin icons at Walt
Disney World's Pop Century
Resort tower more than 65 feet high! (A regulation bowling pin
is a mere 15
inches tall.)
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1969:
U.S. President Richard Nixon presents
Lillian Disney with a special
Commemorative Medal (authorized by
Congress) honoring her late husband Walt.
The medal, designed by C. Robert Moore of Walt Disney
Productions and struck by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, bears a likeness of Walt Disney on one side and Mickey Mouse on
the other. The presentation takes place in the State Dining
Room at the White House. Among the guests are some 200
third and fourth grade Washington, D.C. area schoolchildren.
"Mrs. Disney, members of the Disney family, ladies and gentlemen, and all of our younger guests here today. Many ceremonies are held in this White House, but none that I
think will have more meaning to all of us, young and old, than
this one today, because it is my great privilege to present to Mrs. Walt Disney, on behalf of the Congress of the United States, by reason of a joint resolution, and on behalf of all the people of the United States and, I think, of the world, a gold medal; a gold medal honoring Walt Disney for his service through so many years not only to the people of the United Sates, but to the people of the world." -President Nixon
"I am very grateful to be here, and to see all of you wonderful children who knew him and loved him, too. I think this is a wonderful time in our life. Thank you." -Lillian Disney
1954: Disney wins 4 Oscars
2009:
The North American National Tour of Mary Poppins officially opens in Chicago
with the two original Broadway stars, Ashley Brown as "Mary Poppins" and
Gavin Lee as "Bert."
1988:
A Super Hooper Duper takes place at Disneyland with 1,527 hula-hoopers setting
a new Guinness Record (at the time the largest hula hoop gathering)! The event
is part of the park's "Blast to the Past" - a tribute to the 1950s.
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"The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star." -Elton John
Elton John born
2000:
A joint press premiere takes place at Disneyland Paris for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril: Backwards! (a refitted version of the attraction) and The Tarzan Encounter (a stage show). Official openings will take place April 1.
1994:
Thunder in Paradise, a one-hour action-adventure TV series, debuts in syndication.
Originally premiering as a straight-to-video feature film in 1993, Thunder in Paradise follows the adventures of two ex-Navy SEALS, Randolph J. "Hurricane" Spencer (played by Hulk Hogan) and Martin "Bru" Brubaker (Chris Lemmon). They work as mercenaries out of their tropical resort headquarters along Florida's Gulf Coast, using their futuristic, high-tech boat, nicknamed "Thunder" to fight crime. The show's production company is based out of Disney-MGM Studios with the Grand Floridian Resort being used as its primary filming location. Other filming locations at Walt Disney World include Disney's Old Key West Resort, Fort Wilderness Campground, and EPCOT - used heavily due to the wide variety of futuristic and architectural styles available.
Thunder in Paradise will run for one season.
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