2005:
Conductor John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra pay tribute to
Walt Disney with a performance of Walt Disney: 75 Years of Music. Special guests include Dick Van Dyke, Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, and Alan Menken.
1907:
Veteran radio actor Alan Reed, the voice of Boris in Disney's 1955 classic Lady and the Tramp, is born Edward Bergman in New York City. (Cartoon fans may know him as the original voice of Fred Flintstone!)
1928:
Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Hot Dog is released.
It is the final Oswald short produced.
Imagineer and Disney Legend Harriet Burns is born Harriet Tapp in San Antonio,
Texas. Burns will be the first woman ever hired by Walt Disney Imagineering in a creative rather than an
office capacity. She will begin working at Disney Studios in 1955 as a prop and set painter for the Mickey
Mouse Club. Burns will go on to help create Sleeping Beauty Castle, New Orleans Square, the Haunted
Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, and many other theme park and World's Fair attractions.
1932:
Disney's black & white Mickey Mouse cartoon Trader Mickey is released. A spoof of the
1931 MGM film Trader Horn, it is directed by David Hand. While taking a shipload of musical instruments along the
African coast, Mickey and Pluto are captured by cannibals!
1933:
United States political leader George Mitchell is born in Waterville, Maine. A member
since 1995 of the Walt Disney Company board of directors, he became Disney’s board chairman in 2004.
2003:
Disney releases the CD Disney's Greatest Hits, Vol 3. The collection includes performances by Elton John, Sarah McLachlan and Randy Newman.
2006:
The evening performance of Disney's Tarzan (at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City) benefits the Actors' Fund of America.
(The Actors' Fund, which was founded in 1882, is a non-profit organization that provides
for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals.)
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1989:
Lionel Hampton and his Big Band perform at Disneyland for the first of a seven-day engagement. A jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, bandleader and actor, Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history.
Great Moments with
Mr. Lincoln was the
first Disney-created
attraction
to feature an
Audio-Animatronics
human figure.
The attraction
made its debut
at the 1964
1974:
Actress Amy Lou Adams is born in Vicenza, Italy to American parents. She
appears as Princess Giselle in the 2007 Walt Disney Pictures fantasy animated-live action film Enchanted.
1833:
Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third United States President, is
born on a farm in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio. Visit him and all
the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World's The Hall of Presidents.
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1992:
Actress and singer/songwriter Demi Lovato is born in Dallas, Texas. Best
known to Disney Channel fans as Mitchie Torres in Camp Rock, she also appears in the series As
The Bell Rings (as Charlotte Adams) and stars in Sonny With a Chance (as Sonny Monroe).
Lovato's debut album Don't Forget was released on Disney's Hollywood Records in 2008.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is widely released in theaters in Hong Kong.
1917:
Roy O. Disney (brother of Walt) begins his naval training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, located north of Chicago, Illinois.
(He had enlised in the Navy June 22.)
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2004:
The annual 3-day Winnie's Hometown Festival kicks off in White River, Ontario.
The theme of this year's festival is "Winnie Goes Hawaiian."
2009:
Variety reports that director Robert Zemeckis is in talks with Disney for a remake of
the 1968 animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine. Zemeckis plans to make the new Yellow
Submarine in the same cutting-edge 3-D process he has used for other films like The Polar Express and his
upcoming version of A Christmas Carol.
