2005:
Singabration (a song & dance event that includes 750 students performing on the Forecourt of Cinderella's Castle) kicks off at Walt Disney World.
Star Wars filmmaker Geroge Lucas visits the Disney-MGM Studios in Florida.
It is reported that the Florida Board of Governors has appointed Walt Disney World Resort President Al Weiss to the University of Central Florida board of trustees.
1786:
Writer and linguist Wilhelm Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany. (He and his brother Jacob will be the first to write down such classic folktales as Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.)
1939:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Practical Pig
(featuring the Three Little Pigs) is released.
1940:
Florida-born Frances Langford records the song "When You Wish Upon a Star." The release of Disney's Pinocchio prompts the successful singer-actress to record her own version of the tune. (Eight years later Langford's singing voice will be used in the Disney animated feature Melody Time.)
1950:
Disney's first full-length animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(originally released in the U.S. in 1937) is released in West Germany.
1955:
Steve Jobs, one of the leading figures in the computer industry, is born to an
American mother and Syrian father in San Francisco, California. A co-founder & CEO of
Apple Computer, Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division in the mid-1980s and turned it into Pixar
Animation Studios. As of 2009 Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder and a
member of its Board of Directors.
1956:
The Disney short Chips Ahoy, featuring Donald Duck and
Chip 'n' Dale, is released. It is Disney's first short release of 1956.
1957:
The LP record Firehouse Five Plus Two - Firehouse Five Plus Two Goes to Sea
is released on the Good Time Jazz label. The Dixieland group features animators Ward Kimball (on trombone) & Frank Thomas (on piano), and songwriter George Bruns (on tuba).
1960:
Disney's live-action adventure feature Kidnapped, starring Peter Finch, Peter
O'Toole, and James MacArthur is released. It is based on the Robert Louis
Stevenson classic historical novel Kidnapped - first published in 1886.
1963:
The TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
airs part 2 of "Banner in the Sky."
1969:
Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is nominated for an Academy Award.
1975:
Disney's Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too is nominated for an Academy Award.
1999:
Disney's The Lion King wins Best Musical Show Album at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards, which are announced at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
2001:
The animated series Disney's House of Mouse airs episode 6 "Timon & Pumbaa."
2003:
It is reported that baggage searches at Walt Disney World parks (which began
after September 11, 2001) may continue for a long time. Disney has begun building a permanent bag check area at the Magic Kingdom to take the place of the folding tables now being used.
2004:
Today is the last day for Walt Disney World guests to
view "75 InspEARations" (a tribute to Mickey Mouse).
The statues will begin a U.S. tour in May.
The ABC-TV comedy series According to Jim airs part 1 of "When You Wish To Be A Star," an episode filmed aboard the Disney Magic. It is the first time ever an entertainment program has been filmed aboard either of the premier Disney Cruise Line ships.
2006:
Comedic actor Don Knotts passes away at age 81 in Beverly Hills, California. Best known to fans of TV's The Andy Griffith Show as the loveable but nerdy Deputy Barney Fife, Knotts was a five-time Emmy winner. His Disney voice credits include Chicken Little (as Mayor Turkey Lurkey) and 101 Dalmations: The Series (as the dog catcher). Knotts also appeared in the Disney live-action features The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, No Deposit, No Return and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.
Sadly actor Dennis Weaver passes too in Colorado at age 81. Best known for his TV roles in Gunsmoke and McCloud, Weaver was the voice of Abner in Disney's 2004 animated feature Home on the Range. He also appeared in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color "Gallegher Goes West" series
(which aired in 1966).
1943:
Master Disney animator Vladimir "Bill" Tytla resigns from the Disney Studios.
His perception that he is unwelcomed at the Studio, has been given less challenging work, his wife's three-year long illness with tuberculosis, and a desire to live on his Connecticut farm has led him to this decision. Considered by
many to be the best character animator working during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation, Tytla's credits
include Grumpy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stromboli in Pinocchio, and Chernabog in the "Night on
Bald Mountain" sequence from Fantasia.
1985:
The Disney Clothiers shop opens in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World.
1951:
Actress Debra Jo Rupp is born in Glendale, California. Best known from the hit TV series That '70s Show, her Disney credits include Air Buddies and the animated Teacher's Pet (both feature film & TV series).
Actors Dennis Weaver and Clint
Howard played father and son on
the 1967 television series Gentle
Ben. Weaver went on to voice
the character of Abner in the
2004 Home on the Range and
Howard went on to supply the
voice of Roo in the 1974 Winnie
the Pooh and Tigger Too!.
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2008:
Brad Bird accepts the awarded for Best Animated Feature
for the Disney/Pixar Ratatouille at the 80th Academy Awards.
After spending several weeks at Walt Disney World, nine sea turtles are
released back into the Atlantic Ocean this morning. The turtles originally washed up on the
Brevard County shore in December 2007 during a red tide bloom and needed to be nursed back to health.
1993:
It's a big night for Beauty and the Beast at the 35th Grammy Awards, held at the
Shrine Auditorium. Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal goes to "Beauty and the Beast,"
performed by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. Best Pop Instrumental Performance is awarded to "Beauty and the
Beast," - Richard Kaufman conducting Nurenberg Symphony Orchestra. Best Instrumental Composition Written
for a Motion Picture or for Television is given to composer Alan Menken for Beauty and the Beast. Best Song
Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television is awarded to "Beauty and the Beast," written byHoward
Ashman and Alan Menken.
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2009:
Disney's Animal Programs team releases a manatee, named Bock, into the warm waters of the St. John’s River. The manatee, rescued as an orphan from the St. John’s River in 2001, arrived at Epcot in 2003 weighing only about 500 pounds. At Epcot, marine mammal experts weaned him from a bottle and began feeding him a diet of romaine lettuce, fruits and other vegetables. Bock now weighs more than 1,000 pounds and is approximately eight years old.
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