2002:
The Beach Boys kick off Disney's Rockin' the Bay (a six-week summer music series featuring 18 famed recording groups) at Disney's California Adventure.
1925:
Walt Disney marries Lillian Bounds (one of his first employees) at her brother's home in Lewiston, Idaho.
1935:
Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Garden is released. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, it is the second Mickey cartoon produced in color and the first color appearance of Pluto.
1940:
Actor Patrick Stewart, the voice of Mr. Woolensworth in the 2005 animated
feature Chicken Little, is born in England. (Science fiction fans will recognize him as Captain
Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek films & television series and as Professor Charles Xavier from X-Men films.)
1945:
Disney's Goofy cartoon Californy er Bust is released. In this short, directed
by Jack Kinney, Goofy takes a covered wagon on the overland trail to California.
1955:
Eighteen-year-old Bob Penfield begins working at Disneyland four days before the
park's grand opening. He is attending an orientation for Cast Members. Bob will earn $1.65 an hour. (He
will go on to work for Disneyland for the next 42 years, making him the longest working Cast Member in history!)
"The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland," the final
progress report on Disneyland's construction airs on the ABC series
Disneyland just four days before the theme park's grand opening. Guest stars
include Ronald Reagan, Art Linkletter, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Fess Parker (as Davy Crockett).
Walt and Lillian Disney celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary at the
not-yet-open Disneyland. Lillian Disney invites guests to a "Tempus Fugit
Celebration," at six o'clock in the evening. As the guests arrive, they are transported down Main Street and into
Frontierland via horse-drawn surreys. From there, everyone takes a ride around the Rivers of America aboard the
Mark Twain Riverboat while sipping mint juleps. Although they are already engaged, Roy E. Disney (Walt's
nephew) presents a ring to his fiance Patty. Afterwards guests head to the Golden Horseshoe Saloon for dinner
and the very first (although unofficial) performance of a show called the Golden Horseshoe Revue, created by
Wally Boag, the original Pecos Bill. (The record-breaking stage show will play an amazing 47,250 performances
through 1986!)
1962:
Comedian-actor Tom Kenny is born in East Syracuse, New York. Best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, Kenny appears in Disney's 2005 Sky High as Mr. Timmerman and supplies the voice for Mr. Willerstein in the Disney 2007 animated feature Meet the Robinsons.
1975:
Television/stage actor & Mouseketeer Braden Danner, who appears on the
Disney Channel series MMC (for season 1), is born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1992:
Jim Henson Productions and Disney Channel announce a distribution agreement for "Fraggle Rock" and other Henson properties.
1995:
Disney's Pocahontas soundtrack reaches #1 on the Billboard chart, knocking off Michael Jackson's album HIStory.
2001:
The Disney Channel Original Movie The Jennie Project premieres.
1928:
Actor Bob Crane is born in Waterbury, Connecticut. Famously known as Colonel Hogan on the classic TV series Hogan's Heroes, Crane appears in the live-action Disney films Superdad (as Charlie McCready) and Gus (as Pepper).
2006:
Comedian/actor Red Buttons passes away at his home in California at age 87. Disney fans will remember him as the cowardly Hoagy who assisted Doc Terminus in Disney's 1977 Pete's Dragon. An Academy Award-winning character actor, Buttons enjoyed a career that spanned more than seven decades!
1994:
The soundtrack to Disney's animated The Lion King is released on Walt Disney
Records. Among the 12 tunes featured on the disc is Elton John & Tim Rice's "Can You Feel The Love
Tonight" - which will win an Oscar for Best Song.
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The longest lines at the
1964-1965 World's Fair (in New York City) were for the 4 attractions created by Disney. Walt took some of the attractions and elements of others to his Anaheim park when the Fair closed.
1974:
Singer Deborah Cox, the last to portray Aida in Disney's Broadway production Aida,
is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1946:
Actor/comedian Cheech Marin (best known as half the comedic duo of Cheech and Chong) is born in Los Angeles, California. His Disney voice credits include Cars as Ramone, The Lion King as Banzai the Hyena, Oliver & Company as Tito, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Manuel. (Fans of TV's Nash Bridges may remember Marin for his role of Joe Dominguez.)
2007:
Disney-MGM's 13-story Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction marks its
13th anniversary on this Friday the 13th! (Actually the popular attraction
first debuted thirteen years ago on July 22.)
Disney Channel ranks number 1 in the Nielsen Media Research ranking
for this evening's broadcast between 8:00-9:30. Disney beats all of the
cable as well as broadcast stations, snaring 5.1 million total viewers! Original episodes of the
comedies Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Cory in the House are shown.
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2004:
A Cinderella Story: Original Soundtrack (featuring music from the movie A
Cinderella Story) is released in the U.S. by Hollywood Records. The CD features five
songs from Hilary Duff, including the hit collaboration with her sister Haylie, "Our Lips Are Sealed" (a cover song
originally recorded by The Go-Go's).
2008:
The official trailer for High School Musical 3 premieres on Disney Channel, ABC Family and Disney.com.
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Bob Penfield begins work at Disneyland
"I remember the first day, seeing Walt walking down Main Street. I'm an 18-year-old Iowa farm boy, and I'm watching Walt Disney walk down the street. That's one thing I'll always remember." -Bob Penfield
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1953:
Legendary animator Chuck Jones (already well know for his animation at Warner Brothers) begins working at the Disney Studios. He will only stay for 4 months before returning to Warner. Despite the fact that his brief tenure at Disney will not be satisfying for either himself or Walt Disney, Jones will still hold the Disney Studios and Walt in the highest regard for the rest of his life.
"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer." -Chuck Jones
