FEB 19 Disney History

2002:

The annual meeting of shareholders of The Walt Disney Company

is held at the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut at 10:00 a.m.

1941:

Disney's Technicolor feature Fantasia opens in Chicago, Illinois. (The film first premiered last November 1940 in New York City.)

1955:

Actor, musician & playwright Jeff Daniels is born in Athens, Georgia. He will go on to

appear in such live-action Disney films as the 1999 My Favorite Martian as Tim O'Hara, the 1996 101

Dalmatians as Roger, and the 1990 Arachnophobia as Doctor Ross Jennings. (Film fans also know him from

such features Dumb and Dumber, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Terms of Endearment.)

1960:

The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode

"Texas John Slaughter: Apache Friendship."

1961:

Walt Disney Presents airs part 1 of the 1956 film "Westward Ho! The Wagons."

1967:

An article titled "Florida's Disney World Aims at '70 Opening"

by C. E. Wright appears in the Sunday New York Times.

1985:

Mickey Mouse is welcomed to China as part of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. (The touring mouse will visit 30 cities in 30 days.)

1987:

Paul Terry, the voice of James in the 1996 James and the Giant Peach, is born.

2000:

Episode 10 of Mickey Mouse Works airs on ABC-TV. The program features the shorts "Goofy's Radio," "Car Washers" (with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy), and "Pluto's Seal Deal."

1952:

The Disney short Hello Aloha is released by RKO. Directed by Jack Kinney, this cartoon finds Goofy living out the working-man's dream of walking away from his job and moving to a tropical island paradise.

2007:

Engineers Week, an event to raise public awareness of engineers’ positive contributions to our quality of life and the importance of math, science and technical literacy, begins at Epcot's Innoventions West on this Presidents' Day.

The Walt Disney World College Program is a U.S. national internship program operated by

The Walt Disney Company,

which is stationed at the

Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.