2005:
The world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe takes place at Royal Albert Hall in London, England.
1910:
Trumpeter, bandleader, singer, composer, and actor Louis
Prima, known for his memorable contribution to Disney's The
Jungle Book as the voice (and live-action reference) for King
Louie, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prima will ride the
musical trends of his time, starting with a New Orleans style
jazz band in the 1920s, a successful Swing combo in the 1930s, a Big Band in the 1940s, a hot Vegas lounge act with his wife Keely Smith in the 1950s, and a pop-Rock go-go band in the 1960s! Referred to as the King of the Swingers, he will also write the jazz anthem "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)".
1929:
Publisher and Disney Legend Gaudenzio Capelli is born in Milan, Italy. During his 33-year career he will help make Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters wildly popular through his Topolino magazine.
1935:
Disney artist John Lounsbery (one of Walt's "Nine Old Men") weds Florence
Hurd at the Forest Lawn Chapel in California.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Anything Can Happen Day.
ABC-TV's Disneyland series presents episode 33 - "The Goofy Success Story" (a compilation of cartoon shorts) featuring Pinto Colvig, the voice of Goofy.
1961:
At Disneyland, the Babes in Toyland Exhibit on Main Street opens.
1964:
Compass East Corporation is incorporated in Delaware. It will be responsible for buying up the Florida land that will eventually become Walt Disney World.
1986:
The Disney Channel begins to broadcast 24 hours a day.
(It had previously been broadcast only 18 hours a day.)
The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Swiss Family Robinson."
1997:
The first (of what will be 4) official "Toad Ins" take place at Disney World's Fantasyland. Toad fans peacefully converge on the Magic Kingdom wearing matching green Save Toad t-shirts to show their support for the Mr. Toads' Wild Ride attraction (which is scheduled to close).
The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book"
on ABC-TV.
Disney Channel debuts a new episode of Muppets Tonight. Titled "The Cameo Show," the Muppets search frantically for a host after Bobo the Bear accidentally kills Arsenio Hall, the original guest star! Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks, Little Richard, Christopher Darden, and Kathy Ireland make cameos.
1999:
Cynthia Harriss is named president of the Disneyland Resort.
Disney's direct-to-video Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is released.
2001:
The Lizzie McGuire episode "The Courtship of Miranda Sanchez" debuts on
Disney Channel as does the Disney Channel Original Movie 'Twas the Night.
2004:
Disney releases 7 DVDs on this day. They include Mickey Mouse in Black& White Volume 2, The Complete Pluto: Volume 1, The Mickey Mouse Club: Week One, "Gargoyles" Season 1, The Lion King Movie Collection, Kim Possible: The Villain Files, and That's So Raven: Supernaturally Stylish (Volume 1).
2006:
Roy E. Disney attends the release party of a new Disney DVD -
True-Life Adventures Vol 1 - at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. It is the first release of
the new Walt Disney's Legacy Collection. (True-Life Adventures was a series of 13 groundbreaking film shorts
and short features released between 1948 - 1960.)
MouseFest 2006 - an unofficial, international annual convention bringing together the people behind independent Disney books, newsletters and Web pages - invades Disney World.
The current owners of the house Elias Disney built for his family in Chicago, put
the home up for auction on eBay. The four-bedroom frame house at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue was
constructed in 1893. This is the house Walt Disney was born and lived in for the first 4 years of his life. The
auction is to last 30 days with a starting bid of $280,000.
The 49th Grammy Nominees are announced.
Among The Walt Disney Company's 15 nominations are:
Baby Einstein Meet The Orchestra (Walt Disney Records) for Best Musical Album for Children
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! by Bob Newhart (Hyperion Audiobooks)for Best Spoken Word Album
Cars (Walt Disney Record/Pixar) for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album
The Chronicles Of Narnia -The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe & Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (both Walt Disney Records) for Best Score Soundtrack Album
(Grammy Sunday will take place February 11, 2007)
1941:
Sunday - Walt hears the news over the radio of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. He receives a phone call from his studio manager telling him that army troops are moving onto their Burbank lot! The troops are going to provide an anti-aircraft installation to protect the nearby Lockheed factory (which manufacture airplanes for the armed forces).
Walt Disney's 1953 True-Life Adventure The Vanishing Prairie was originally banned in New York State because of a scene showing for the first time - a buffalo giving birth!
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1989:
The Little Mermaid, the twenty-eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, is released in Argentina.
2007:
Disney Channel premieres the Hannah Montana episode "I Will Always Loathe You," featuring Dolly Parton and Vicki Lawrence.
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1998:
The cover of TIME features "100 Builders & Titans" with photos of Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Akio Morita, and Bill Gates against a background of construction workers.
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1945:
Disney's Pluto cartoon Canine Patrol, directed by Charles Nichols, is released.
Pluto (a member of the Coast Guard) tries to keep a baby turtle from off-limits beach territory.
