1997:
Gibson Guitars holds a demonstration at Disney World's Pleasure Island. Guitarists
have the opportunity to see new models and check out a display of classic guitars.
1924:
Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company merge to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ... or MGM.
1961:
At the 33rd Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Bob Hope,
an Oscar (Documentary, Feature) is won for the Disney film The Horse with the Flying Tail. Fifteen-year-old actress Hayley Mills wins an Oscar (Honorary Award) for most outstanding juvenile performance of 1960 for her role in Disney's live-action
Pollyanna. Although Disney's Islands of the Sea is nominated for
Short Subjects, Live Action ... it is edged out by Day of the Painter.
1964:
Disney's "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" exhibit is flown from California to New York
for the upcoming World's Fair. Unfortunately once in New York, the truck delivering the exhibit to the
Illinois Pavilion is caught in heavy traffic around the Flushing Meadows area of Queens (one of the 5 boroughs of
New York City). The cause of traffic ... Shea Stadium - a new ballpark and home to the New York Mets - is hosting
their official opening day! The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Mets 4-3 and Lincoln never makes it to the fair.
2006:
Two of the stars of Disney/Pixar's new computer-animated feature Cars race straight off the movie screen and into the real world as actual life-sized models for a 40 plus city promotional tour. Disney/Pixar's "CARS Road Trip 06" presented by State Farm kicks off this day in Akron, Ohio. (The movie will premiere May 26.)
1998:
Walt Disney Records/Pony Canyon releases the theme park album Disney Carnivale in honor of Tokyo Disneyland's 15th anniversary.
1931:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Mother Goose Melodies, directed
by Burt Gillett, is first released. The Mother Goose characters come to life to entertain Old King Cole
with their nursery rhymes. (Mother Goose is the name given to an archetypical country woman, who issupposedly
the originator of the Mother Goose stories and rhymes. Yet no specific writer has ever been identified!)
"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained." -Walt Disney
2008:
Disney announces a new mobile Web site and texting program. Developed in conjunction with mDisney, part of the Walt Disney Internet Group, the new mobile site allows users with Web-enabled phones to receive Radio Disney information, listen to Radio Disney, view the last 10 songs played on the Radio Disney station, send shout-outs, request songs and take polls.
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THIS DAY MADE IN THE USA
"Cars Road Trip '06" kicks off
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1958:
Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World’s Fair, opens. It is the first major
World's Fair following World War II. Featured at the Fair is the first Disneyland-
style attraction to ever live outside the Magic Kingdom ... America the Beautiful,
a live-action Disney film in Circarama. (The film will open at Disneyland 2 years later.)
1980:
The Watcher in the Woods, a horror film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, first premieres. The film, about a teenage girl and her little sister who become encompassed in a supernatural mystery regarding a missing girl in the woods surrounding their new home, stars Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Lynn-Holly Johnson, and Kyle Richards.
1973:
An amazing 73,168 guests visit Walt Disney World on this day! (A large number considering Disney World only consists of the Magic Kingdom at this time.)
The Tip Top Club
"occupies" the top floor
of the Hollywood
Tower Hotel at
Walt Disney
World.
