1925:
Bard's Glendale Theater in Los Angeles, California previews Disney's Alice comedy film Alice's Balloon Race. (It won't officially be released until February 1926.)
1949:
Actress Teri Garr - who appears in the 1991 TV special The Best of Disney:
50 Years of Magic - is born in Lakewood, Ohio. A Disneyland Cast Member in her younger
days, movie fans may recognize her from such classics as Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the
Third Kind, Oh, God, and Mr. Mom.
1957:
The Disneyland television series presents "The Horse of the West."
Author, illustrator, and filmmaker William Joyce is born in Louisana. He has written and illustrated over twenty-five children's books including Rolie Polie Olie and A Day with Wilbur Robinson. Rolie Polie Olie was turned into an animated Disney Channel series (for which Joyce was awarded 3 Emmys). The 2007 animated feature Meet the Robinsons is based on Joyce's 1993 book A Day with Wilbur Robinson.
1959:
The television series Walt Disney Presents features the
episode "Texas John Slaughter: Wild Horse Revenge."
1960:
The television series Walt Disney Presents airs "Daniel Boone And Chase the Buffalo" (the second episode of Disney's 4-part miniseries based on the life of the famous frontiersman).
1963:
Disney's live-action feature film The Three Lives of Thomasina premieres. Starring
Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, and Laurence Naismith, the film tells the story of a cat named Thomasina
who brings a family together through her mysterious death and reappearance.
1966:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs "Joker, the Amiable Ocelot."
1976:
The Disney television special "Lt. Robinson Crusoe U.S.N." airs.
1982:
The television series Walt Disney airs "Winnie the Pooh and Friends."
1988:
The television series The Magical World of Disney airs
"Disneyland's All-Star Comedy Circus."
1995:
The Disneyland Pacific Hotel - formerly the Pan Pacific Hotel - opens in Anaheim. (In December 2000 it will be renamed the Paradise Pier Hotel.)
2003:
The Home Depot College Football Awards (broadcast on ESPN)
takes place at the Atlantic Dance Hall at Disney World's BoardWalk.
Santa's Pin List, a holiday event, begins throughout the Disney
World theme parks and selected resorts.
2004:
Mickey's Magical Gathering, a brief show featuring Disney characters and area performers appear for a free holiday gathering at Dallas' City Hall.
Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel (in California) is unique in the Western Hemisphere for being one of the few buildings to actually have a 13th floor - as opposed to the more common practice of going straight from 12 to 14. This is because the original owners were Japanese & they didn't consider the number bad luck!
1992:
Walt Disney Pictures releases The Muppet Christmas Carol - the fourth feature film to star The Muppets, the first distributed & produced by Disney, and the first produced after the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson. The film is directed by Jim Henson's son Brian and stars Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge.
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2007:
Actor Lucas Grabeel appears on Live with Regis and Kelly to promote today's release of High School Musical 2 on DVD.
Walt Disney Home Entertainment also releases three new 2-Disc DVD volumes -
The Adventures of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, Chronological Donald, Volume 3, and Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic.
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"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone." -William Joyce
2009:
The Princess and the Frog, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and loosely based on E.D. Baker's novel "The Frog Princess" and and the Grimm brothers' "The Frog Prince," is generally released. The 49th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics and the first theatrically released 2D animated movie by Disney since 2004's Home on the Range, The Princess and the Frog features the voice of Tony Award-winning singer and actress Anika Noni Rose as Tiana.
