2005:
At Tokyo DisneySea, Raging Spirits (a high-speed roller coaster) begins operation. Located in the Lost River Delta section of the park, the attraction takes riders through the ruins of an ancient ceremonial site.
1924:
Veteran actor Don Knotts is born Jesse Donald Knotts
in Morgantown, West Virginia. His live-action Disney credits include the
1975 The Apple Dumpling Gang, the 1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, the 1978 Hot Lead and Cold Feet, and the
1979 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Knotts also supplied voices for the animated 101 Dalmatians: The
Series, and is the voice of Mayor Turkey Lurkey in the animated 2005 Chicken Little. (TV fans will know him best for
his Emmy Award winning role of Deputy Barney Fife on the classic series "The Andy Griffith Show.")
1939:
Disney releases the Mickey Mouse short The Pointer (directed by Clyde Geronomi) in which Mickey and Pluto go hunting for quail. Many animation experts consider this short to be a milestone in the evolution of Mickey Mouse. Beautifully animated and realisitic, it is a turning point in Mickey's appearance.
1943:
Mouseketeer Margene Storey - who will join The Mickey Mouse Club for
its second season in 1956 - is born in El Centro, California. She will appear
extensively in production numbers due to her ability to dance.
1952:
Comedian-actor Robin Williams, the voice of the Blue Genie of the Lamp in Disney's 1992 Aladdin and the voice of Timekeeper in the 1992 From Time to Time (which played in the Disney World attraction The Timekeeper) is born in Chicago, Illinois. He also stars in Disney's 1997 live-action feature Flubber.
1967:
Actor Basil Rathbone (known for his role of Sherlock Holmes) passes
away in New York City. His Disney voice credits include the 1986 The Great Mouse
Detective (in which an old sound bite was used) and the 1949 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (as
the narrator of the "Wind in the Willows" segment).
1992:
The Boiler Room Barbecue, a restaurant at Tokyo Disneyland, opens for business.
1999:
Disney Wonder - the second of the Disney cruise ships - visits Southhampton, England on her delivery voyage from Italy (where she was built) to Florida. The vessel is 965 feet long and can hold a maximum of 3,325 passengers.
2002:
Herman's Hermits featuring Peter Noone begin a
2-day engagement at Disney's California Adventure.
The Country Bears, a live-action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures & based loosely on the Disney attraction Country Bear Jamboree, premieres.
2003:
An unfortunate accident occurs at Disney World's Animal Kingdom when a giraffe is struck and killed by lightning.
2006:
The Disney Channel Original Movie Read It and Weep, starring sisters Kay Panabaker and Danielle Panabaker, debuts.
Disneyland replaced individual ride tickets (in use since 1955) with its
new passports (single admission price to the park)
in 1982.
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2004:
The NFFC's 20th Anniversary Convention kicks off at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove, California. The Club for Disney Enthusiasts, is an international, non-profit organization committed to preserving and sharing the rich legacy of Walt Disney.
Legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith, whose Disney credits
include the animated feature Mulan and the theme park attraction
Soarin' Over California, passes away at 75 in Beverly Hills, California.
1951:
Tony Award-winning singer & actress Lillias White - the voice of Calliope, Muse of Epics in Disney's animated Hercules - is born in Brooklyn, New York.
2008:
Animator Charlie Downs (retired since 1992) passes away. He began his career in Disney's
Animation Department in 1950 as an inbetweener, breakdown artist, key rough artist and cleanup assistant to
several of Walt's "Nine Old Men" (such as Ward Kimball & Les Clark). Downs also worked as a staff animator on
many Disney features including Peter Pan and The Black Cauldron.
He later worked on such television cartoons as The Pink Panther, Casper, Scooby-Doo, and The Jetsons.
1986:
At a press conference on the Empress Lilly at Downtown Disney Marketplace in Florida, Disney CEO Michael Eisner announces plans for a new addition - to be called Pleasure Island. (Construction will begin in August.)
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1962:
Actor, producer, voice actor, and sound effects specialist Ike Eisenmann is born in Houston, Texas. As a child, his most recognized role was the character Tony in the Disney films Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel Return from Witch Mountain. (As an adult. he appears in the 2009 Race to Witch Mountain - playing a sherriff.) During the late 1970s Eisenmann also appeared in episodes of Disney's anthology series - most notably Shadow of Fear and Kit Carson and the Mountain Men. His voice can be heard in Disney's 2002 The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.
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Pleasure Island project announced
"We did Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a
financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year." -Walt Disney
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1954:
Construction officially begins on Disneyland.
Amazingly it will be built in less than a year!
2009:
Here We Go Again the second studio album from Demi Lovato is
released on Disney's Hollywood Records.
