1963:
Actor Tate Donovan, the voice of Disney's
Hercules, is born in New Jersey. His voice can also be heard
in Disney's video game Kingdom Hearts II. (TV fans know him as
Jimmy Cooper from The O.C. and Tom Shayes from Damages.)
2004:
In preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Jeanne - which is expected to come ashore late in the evening or early the following day - Walt Disney World closes its theme parks at 7 pm. Preparations in Central Florida are rushed and sudden, as it was first thought the storm would pass safely offshore.
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1902:
Songwriter Hall of Famer Al Hoffman is born in Minsk, Russia. At age 6, he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington. Starting out as a drummer, he moved to New York City and began writing songs. Along with Mack David and Jerry Livingston, Hoffman wrote such classic Disney tunes as "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (for Cinderella). Among Hoffman's non-Disney hit songs: "Hot Diggity"
(a #1 hit for Perry Como), "Papa Loves Mambo," and "Mairzy Doats."
1931:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Fishin' Around is released. In this short (directed
by Bert Gillett) Mickey and Pluto fish in a "No Fishing" area ... until they have to escape from a
pursuing game warden!
1956:
Inventor, scientist, author and engineer William Daniel Hillis is born in Baltimore,
Maryland. He worked for a short time as vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering before starting
his own company Apple Minds, Inc. with Bran Ferren (also an Imagineer). At Disney, Hillis developed new
technologies and business strategies for Disney's theme parks, television, motion pictures, Internet and
consumer products businesses. He also designed new theme park rides, a full sized walking robot dinosaur
and various micro mechanical devices.
1957:
The Disneyland television series airs "Adventure in Wildwood Heart."
1959:
ABC-TV airs the last episode of the Mickey Mouse Club.
Later that evening, Walt Disney Presents airs the episode "Tomorrow the Moon."
1960:
The Walt Disney Presents TV series airs for the first time on a Sunday evening with
the episode "Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race." (The Disney series had previously
aired on Fridays and as the former Disneyland on Wednesdays.)
1966:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs the episode
"The Legend of El Blanco" on NBC.
1977:
The Wonderful World of Disney airs the 2-hour episode
"King of the Grizzlies" on NBC.
1982:
The CBS television series Walt Disney airs part 1 of
"The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again."
2001:
Disney's touring production of Aida opens in Dallas, Texas.
(The show will run through October 20th.)
In 1961, the monorail track
was expanded to connect
the park with the
Disneyland Hotel.
1944:
Actor Michael Douglas, who portrayed Danny in Disney's 1972 live-action Napoleon and Samantha, is born to actor Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Dill in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Co-starring in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, film fans will know Douglas from such features as The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, Wall Street, and Fatal Attraction.)
2007:
High School Musical on Tour, a new stage version of the hit
Disney Channel movie, begins a series of performances at Shea's Performing
Arts Center in Buffalo, New York.
The Haunted Halloween at Hong Kong Disneyland kicks off with over
ten mysterious attractions and entertainment offerings filled with ghostly
encounters! (The special event will run through the end of October.)
The Disney-owned Lyric Street releases Still Feels Good, the fifth studio album
by the American country music group Rascal Flatts.
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2005:
Disney Channel debuts "The Fall," the second episode of the new series Life With Derek.
Disney's premiere of the live-action feature film The Greatest Game Ever Played takes place at the El Capitan theater in Hollywood.
1946:
According to The Hollywood Reporter, many recording artists (such as Dinah Shore, the Merry Macs, Woody Herman, and the Modernaires) have already released their versions of Song of the South's music even before the film's premiere (which is scheduled for November).
1953:
Marvin Davis (future Disney Legend) completes his second-generation "hub" layout of the proposed Disneyland. Davis (not to be confused with animator/Imagineert Marc Davis) will continue
to work closely with Walt Disney in designing and laying-out virtually every aspect of the park's conceptualization and architecture.
2008:
Lester Robert "Bob" Jackson, former personal assistant to Walt Disney, passes away from leukemia at age 77. Jackson worked closely with Disney on projects such as the 1964 New York World's Fair and the press conference that announced Disney World's groundbreaking. He also handled dignitary relations such as meetings with presidents and their families, foreign leaders and celebrities. He worked for Disney until 1971 and went on to work with the U.S. Department of Commerce as director of Information Services, director of public relations for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, and later director of Tourism for the City of Miami Beach, Florida.
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2009:
The "most delicious time of the year" begins at Disney World with the 14th annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy kicks off the annual Eat to the Beat Consert Series. (The festival will run for the next 6 weeks.)
The final performance at the Adventurers Club at Pleasure Island, Florida takes place as part of Congaloosh 2009 (a weekend-long convention to celebrate the popular Adventurers Club). Although the final public performance had taken place September 27, 2008 (the final night for all clubs in Pleasure Island), the Adventurers Club was being used for private parties over the last year.
Over on the west coast, Disney's Halloween Time returns to the Disneyland Resort.
The science fiction film Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis, is released through Touchstone Pictures.
"I've wanted to work at Disney ever since I was a child... I remember listening to Walt Disney on television describing the 'Imagineers' who designed Disneyland. I decided then that someday I would be an Imagineer. Later, I became interested in a different kind of magic - the magic of computers. Now I finally have the perfect job - bringing computer magic into Disney." -William Daniel Hillis
1925:
Disney's Alice comedy short Alice Chops the Suey, featuring Margie Gay,
previews at Bard's Hollywood Theater in Los Angeles.
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The original Disneyland Monorail was a round trip sightseeing
ride with no stops.
1942:
The Donald Duck cartoon The Vanishing Private, directed by Jack King and written
by Carl Barks, is released. When soldier Donald (voiced by Clarence Nash) is put on camoulflage
duty to paint a large cannon, he comes across an experimental invisible paint. He finds that it works especially
well on himself when he is trying to hide from villainous commander Pete (voiced by Billy Bletcher).
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14th Food & Wine Festival begins
Dixieland at Disneyland
"Marvin was very conscientious about developing the Park. He worked extremely hard to help bring
Walt's dream to life, exactly as Walt envisioned it." -Disney Legend John Hench
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1964:
The 5th Annual Dixieland at Disneyland takes place for the first of two evenings.
Musicals guests include Louis Armstrong, Elliott Brothers’ Big Band Dixie, The Ward Singers, Kid Ory with the
Young Men from New Orleans, Burch Mann Dancers, Sharkey Bonano and his Kings of Dixieland, Sweet Emma
Barrett and her New Orleans Jazz Band, and Ben Pollack and his Pick-A-Rib Boys, and The Firehouse Five Plus 2.
2011:
Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World is featured on the season premiere of ABC-TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The two-hour episode focuses on the Marshalls, a military family residing in Fayetteville, North Carolina, who are committed to helping homeless female veterans. While the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team work their magic at the Steps-N-Stages Jubilee House in Fayetteville, the family vacations at Disney World, where they serve as the guests of honor at a military-family themed parade.
