2005:
A joint statement from The Walt Disney Company and Roy E. Disney & Stanley P. Gold announces that they have agreed to put aside their differences.
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1909:
Publisher and Disney Legend Mario Gentilini is born in Luzzara, Italy. As director of "Topolino" magazine, he will popularize Mickey Mouse throughout his home land.
1913:
Radio & voice actor Bill Thompson - the voices of Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty, and Uncle Waldo in The Aristocats - is born in Terre Haute, Indiana. (His most famous voice creation is the mush-mouthed cartoon hound, Droopy.)
1926:
Disney Legend Horst Koblischek is born in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia.
Working in character merchandising, he will go on to create the Sport Goofy Trophy and negotiate Disney's first television contract in Germany.
1938:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Good Scouts is released.
(It will be nominated for an Academy Award.)
1956:
The Disney animated short How to Have an Accident in the Home, featuring Donald Duck and J.J. Fate (an imaginary personification of Donald's bad "luck"), is released.
1958:
Disney's live-action feature The Light in the Forest, starring Fess Parker,
James MacArthur, and Jessica Tandy is released. The film centers around the
struggles of a boy named John Cameron Butler/True Son, who has been
taken from his parents by Indians while young. It is based on a novel first
published in 1953 by author Conrad Richter.
1964:
Disney's live-action feature film The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills and Eli Wallach, is generally released.
1977:
The New Mouseketeers appear on CBS-TV's Dinah!
1994:
The premier opening of the Legend of The Lion King in the Fantasyland Theater (at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom) takes place with a
5-minute ceremony.
1995:
Disney's live stage show Beauty and the Beast first opens
internationally at The Princess Theatre, in Melbourne, Australia.
1997:
Michael Eisner attends the first preview of Disney's new musical
The Lion King at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2002:
Academy Award-winning Disney animator/director Ward Kimball passes
away of natural causes at Arcadia Methodist Hospital in Arcadia,
Kimball first joined the Disney Studios in 1934.)
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Disneyland's Flying Saucers attraction of the early 1960s was not technologically perfect and was constantly breaking down. After several years it was closed.
JULY 8
2007:
The Disney Broadway musical Tarzan - based on the animated film of
the same name - plays its final performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. Running since May 2006, the musical has played 35 previews and 486 regular performances.
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1877:
Actor Nigel De Brulier, the inspiration for the model of the Sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia, is born in Bristol, England.
JULY
"We thought we were always going to be 21 years old. We thought we would always be putting goldfish in the bottled drinking water, balancing cups of water on the light fixtures, changing the labels on cans of sauerkraut juice. We were 21 years old, Walt was 30, leading the pack. Working there was more fun than any job I could ever imagine." -Ward Kimball
1776:
According to tradtion, the Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is
rung to summon citizens for the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Today a replica of the Liberty Bell sits on display in Disney World's Liberty Square. The replica was cast from the mold of the actual Liberty Bell!
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