AUG 02 Disney History

2005:

This day's Disney DVD releases include The Boatniks, Toby Tyler, Johnny Tremain, and The World's Greatest Athlete.

The audio CD Radio Disney: Move It is released.

1920:

Voice actor, writer and producer Bill Scott is born William John Scott in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His Disney credits include George of the Jungle 2 and The Gummi Bears. He is known most notably as the voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose in the animated Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. (During World War II Scott served in the U.S. Army's First Motion Picture Unit where he reported to Lt. Ronald Reagan ... and worked with Disney animator Frank Thomas!)

1998:

Passengers aboard the Disneys Magic's maiden voyage become the very first guests to set foot on Disney's private island, Castaway Cay (which officially opened July 30). Located 225 nautical miles from Disney's home port of Port Canaveral, Florida, the island stretches 3.1 miles long and 2.2 miles wide. Originally called Gorda Cay, the island was used for filming the 1984 feature Splash - where Tom Hanks first encountered Daryl Hannah on the beach.

1999:

Disney's newest ship the Disney Wonder is escorted into Port Canaveral

for the first time, by its sister ship the Disney Magic.

2001:

Dick Van Dyke, songwriter Richard Sherman, and Julie Andrews rededicate Soundstage 2 in Burbank, California, to The Julie Andrews Stage. Andrews filmed Disney's Mary Poppins and The Princess Diaries at this famous location.

The late Guy Williams - the star of Disney's 1950s Zorro

TV series - is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known for playing swashbuckling action heroes, Williams portrayed the father of the Robinson family on the sci-fi TV series Lost in Space.

2002:

The Bangles perform two shows at Disney's California Adventure.

The Bangles. an all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, are best known for their hits "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like An Egyptian."

1995:

Due to the threat of Hurricane Erin, all Walt Disney World theme parks open late at 11:00 AM. Hurricane Erin is the fifth named tropical cyclone and the second hurricane of the

unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season.

In Aspen, Colorado, 36 Disney executives gather (for the next 3 days)

to brainstorm ideas for a second Anaheim-based theme park to be built next to

Disneyland. The result will be a plan for Disney's California Adventure!

The August 1963 issue of

National Geographic featured

"The Magic Worlds of Walt

Disney," a 49-page article by

Robert De Roos. It also featured

a rare photo (taken by Thomas

Nebbia) of Walt, his wife, & their

grandchildren in the Disneyland