2005:
It is announced that Kyle Petty, a 26-year NASCAR veteran and son of racing legend Richard Petty will run in the 2006 Walt Disney World Marathon on January 8.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Anything Can Happen Day.
The Disneyland television series airs episode 35 -
"Man and the Moon." Walt Disney introduces the program and presents scenes from the Disneyland attraction Rocket Ship To The Moon before turning the show over to host Ward Kimball. Featured is an animated dramatization of Wernher von Braun's two-stage plan to reach the moon, starting with the construction of a space station and continuing with the launching of a rocket from there to the moon. (This is the second of a 3-part series promoting space travel and the final Disneyland episode of 1955.)
1969:
The television series The Wonderful World of Disney airs part 2 of "Babes in Toyland."
1982:
Attendance at Walt Disney World reaches a high of 123,000!
1986:
The Wonderful World of Disney airs the episodes "Tiger Town" and "Star Tours."
"Tiger Town" stars Roy Schneider as an aging all-star for the Detroit Tigers. In "Star Tours" a group of visitors
are taken on a bumpy trip through the Star Wars universe.
2000:
Holiday crowds force Disneyland to suspended ticket sales for about 5 hours.
2004:
Veteran actor Jerry Orbach, the voices of Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast and
Sa'luk in Aladdin and the King of Thieves, passes away in New York City.
An eye donor; his eyes will save two people from blindness. (TV fans will remember Orbach as Detective Lennie
Briscoe on the hit series Law & Order.)
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2006:
Disney announces its studio division generated $3.26 billion in global box
office revenue in 2006 and claimed the year's top two box office and top three
DVD domestic releases for the first time. Disney claimed the year's top-grossing
box office releases with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which has reached $1.06 billion since its May release, and the computer-animated Cars, which grossed more than $462 million globally.
Imagineer and Disney veteran Don Edgren passes away at the age of 83. He was an
an engineer who led the team building the first Space Mountain and had a role in building various Disney
parks. Edgren supervised construction of the Matterhorn and original Pirates of the Caribbean attractions.
"Walt Disney was a great man. To think I worked for Disney studios - my god, it was great. It wasn't just a plain old job." -Disney Legend Don Edgren (Class of 2006)
Designed to resemble a
turn-of-the-century
Nantucket seaside resort, Disney World's Yacht & Beach Clubs are situated on
a 25-acre
freshwater
lake.
DEC
1856:
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth United States
President, is born in Staunton, Virginia. Visit him and all the
U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World's The Hall of Presidents.
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1956:
Animator & story artist Rick Farmiloe is born in Santa Rosa, California. Among his Disney credits - The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid. (Farmiloe has also worked on Shrek, Curious George, and The Simpsons Movie.)
1997:
Disney Channel debuts "The Best of Muppets Tonight."
Gonzo and Rizzo host a collage of video clips of the best moments from past episodes of Muppets Tonight.
1930:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Playful Pan, directed by Bert Gillett,
is released.
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DECEMBER 28
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THIS DAY MADE
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DECEMBER 28
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1977:
An amazing 82,938 guests visit Walt Disney World on this day!
(Keep in mind - at this time there is just 1 theme park, the Magic Kingdom.)
"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
-Woodrow Wilson
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"Man and the Moon" airs
