2003:
Actress Julie Andrews takes a spin on Cinderella's Golden Carrousel as
five members of television's "The Brady Bunch" make an appearance at Disney
-MGM Studios as part of Disney World's Magical Gatherings celebration. They join
dozens of celebrities this weekend who are helping Disney World open new attractions and shows.
Epcot closes at 3:00 pm for a special evening press event for the
opening of Mission: SPACE. The dedication is presided over by Walt Disney Co.
Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and
NASA President Sean O'Keefe. In attendance are legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim
Lovell and Wally Schirra. The event also includes beamed in remarks and well-wishes
from Russian Cosmonaut Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA science officer Ed Lu - who are both aboard
the International Space Station.
Sugar Ray and The B-52s perform on the Fountain Stage in Epcot after the
Mission: SPACE ceremony and prior to the evening's display of Illuminations.
1925:
The Apollo Theater in Los Angeles, California premieres Disney's Alice comedy film Alice Rattled by Rats. The short won't be officially released until November.
1942:
The Goofy cartoon The Olympic Champ, directed by Jack Kinney, is released.
1957:
ABC-TV's Disneyland series airs the second episode of "The Saga of Andy Burnett."
1959:
The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs episode 127 - part 2
of "Moochie of the Little League."
1960:
Walt Disney Presents airs the episode "The Plausible Impossible" on ABC-TV.
1963:
Ronald Miller, Walt Disney's grandson, is born to Ron Miller and
Diane Disney in Los Angeles County, California.
1966:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "Savage Sam" on NBC-TV.
Walt Disney is honored for "advancing the cause of international understanding and friendship through motion pictures and television" at a meeting of People to People (a service organization based in Kansas City). Seated next to Walt is
J.C. Hall (founder of Hallmark Cards) and entertainer Bob Hope!
1982:
The CBS-TV series Walt Disney airs part 1 of "Freaky Friday."
1988:
Disney's long-running television series debuts under the new title The Magical World of Disney on NBC.
1999:
Singing group 98 Degrees, featuring Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, Jeff Timmons, and
Nick Lachey, visit Animal Kingdom to tape the holiday special Walt Disney World's
Very Merry Christmas Parade.
The Disney Channel Original Movie Don't Look Under the Bed first airs on television.
2001:
Disney re-releases its 1937 classic
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs on DVD.
1956:
Walt Disney pens a letter to the future (to be placed in a time capsule) from his Burbank, California studio entitled:
PREDICTION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN WORLD 50 YEARS FROM NOW.
Mr. Disney believes that the world will be overturned by technology.
2006:
Disney inducts the 2006 Disney Legends at The Walt Disney Company headquarters in Burbank, California. Songwriter Sir Elton John and news anchorman Peter Jennings are among the 12 inductees to receive the award.
1919:
Walt Disney, who has served as a Red Cross volunteer in France, arrives back in the United States. Aboard the SS Canada, he pulls into New York Harbor after a long slow trip.
(Walt will be discharged the following day and arrive back in Chicago October 11.)
"When you're lying on your back and see all the smoke billow up around the windows before you rocket off, that's just like it is inside the space shuttle."
-Winston Scott
(retired
astronaut)
on Epcot's
Mission: SPACE
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1983:
Tiger Town, the very first Disney Channel television film, debuts. The film stars Roy Scheider as an aging baseball player for the Detroit Tigers, and Justin Henry as a young fan who believes in him. Tiger manager Sparky Anderson, who is managing the team in real life, appears frequently throughout the movie, as does Mary Wilson, a former Supreme, singing the national anthem.
2007:
High School Musical on Tour, a new stage version of the hit Disney
Channel movie, begins a series of performances at Bushnell
Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut.
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1992:
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is widely released in theaters in the United Kingdom.
2008:
Disney welcomes a new Mary and Bert when Scarlett Strallen and Adam Fiorentino join the hit Broadway musical Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. Strallen was in the London version of Mary Poppins in fall 2005 and returned to the show in the
spring 2007 after a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Life on Mars, a new science fiction crime drama distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, premieres on ABC-TV. Actor Jason O'Mara plays police detective Sam Tyler who suddenly finds himself inexplicably transported from 2008 to 1973.
OCTOBER 9
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OCTOBER 09
Mission: SPACE officially opens
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"As you can see, astronaut flight training isn't like anything you've ever experienced before. It is intense. And, if you would like to opt out, you can sign up for Mission Control training in the advanced training lab. Just ask any member of the ISTC crew for directions. As for the rest of you, report for your pre-flight briefing. It's go time."
-Mission: SPACE
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2006 Disney Legends
2009:
Some 4.6 million viewers tune in to watch "Franken Girl," the third
season debut of the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place.
1940:
Singer-songwriter John Lennon, who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, is born in Liverpool England.
In August 1965 Walt Disney met with Brian Epstein - manager of The Beatles - to discuss the possibility of the popular Fab Four performing songs for the upcoming film The Jungle Book. Later Lennon supposedly
nixed the idea and Walt ended up using semi-soundalikes to voice what wound up being vultures in the film.
In late 1973 Lennon visited Disneyland with his son Julian, girl friend May, ex-wife Cynthia (mother of Julian), and friends Mal Evans (once a Beatles roadie) and Jesse Ed Davis. Lennon, who had not seen Julian in 4 years, thought the Anaheim park was a good place to reconnect with his 9-year-old son.
On December 29, 1974 Lennon, while staying at Disney's Polynesian Village Hotel (today known as Disney's Polynesian Resort), signed the paperwork that officially broke up The Beatles. Although the group hadn't worked together since 1970, it took another 4 years for the proper legal paperwork to be agreed upon. He was the last Beatle to sign the documents thus ending The Beatles at Walt Disney World.
1968:
Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up, is born in
Bloomington, Minnesota. Starting at Pixar at age 21 (the third animator on the
staff and the tenth person hired by the company), he's also been an integral part of such
classics as Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life, Cars, and Wall-E. Docter has also
contributed voices for Up, The Incredibles, and Monsters, Inc.
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