2005:
The premiere of Disney's live-action feature Sky High takes place at the El
Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California.
Disney Channel airs "Dinner Time," the 25th episode of Phil of the Future.
1948:
Christopher Milne (son of Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne) marries his cousin Lesley de Selincourt. His parents do not approve - in particular his mother does not get along with Lesley's father.
1949:
Comedic actor Michael Richards, who appears on the 1994 TV special The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic, is born in Los Angeles, California. TV fans know Richards best as Cosmo Kramer from the hit series Seinfeld.
1951:
Actress Lynda Carter, Principal Powers in Disney's 2005 feature Sky High,
is born in Phoenix, Arizona. Comic book fans know Carter as TV's Wonder Woman!
1964:
Chicago Tribune runs a story titled "Lincoln Still Holds Hearers Spellbound." The article describes a new animated figure (at the
New York World's Fair) created by Disney that is
"so lifelike many find it hard to believe he isn't alive."
1966:
The New Orleans Square area opens at Disneyland, California, with
a ceremony presided over by Walt Disney and the real mayor of New
Orleans, Victor Schiro. The 3-acre site, the first new themed "land" added to
Disneyland after its 1955 opening, has cost $18 million to build. New Orleans Square (not a
square so much as an intricate series of "streets") is the only land in the Magic Kingdom to
debut without a single attraction. Although filled with shops and restaurants like the One of a
Kind shop and Mademoiselle Antoinette's Parfumerie, the Pirates of the Caribbean and
Haunted Mansion attractions won't open until 1967 and 1969. (Sadly, due to his health, this will turn out to be
Walt's last major public appearance in the park.)
1985:
Walt Disney's 25th animated feature The Black Cauldron (based loosely on the first
two volumes of Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain) premieres in U.S.
theaters. This film was 12 years in the making, at a cost of over $25 million. It is the first Disney animated
movie to get a PG rating and the first animated movie to ever use 3-D graphics. The Black Cauldron is also the first animated Disney film made in cooperation with Silver Screen Partners II.
1989:
The Town Square Café, opened since 1971 and located on Disney World's Main Street USA, re-opens as Tony's Town Square Café.
1991:
The 100th Disney Store opens - in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1936:
Versatile comedic actress Ruth Buzzi is born in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Best known from the late 1960s TV variety series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Buzzi's Disney credits include The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, It's Tough to Be a Bird, and the original version of Freaky Friday. She is also the singing voice of Frou-Frou for the 1970 animated The Aristocats. (Buzzi was the only featured player to
appear in every episode of Laugh-In, which aired from 1968 to 1973 on NBC.)
Disneyland premiered its first
fireworks presentation in
1956. The show was actually
created by hand - with
employees touching off the
fuses with a flare! (A few
years later, technology
enabled fireworks to be
launched electronically and
synchronized with a
soundtrack.)
1940:
A story meeting takes place at the Disney Studios for The Reluctant Dragon.
In attendance is Walt and 9 of his employees including animator Joe Grant, writer Ed Penner, and layout artist Hugh Hennesy.
1999:
The 10th Disney Channel Original Movie Johnny Tsunami, about a surfer
named Johnny Kapahala (played by Brandon Baker) who moves from Hawaii
to Vermont, debuts.
2007:
Billy Ray Cyrus, singer-songwriter and the co-star of the hit Disney Channel series Hannah Montana (which stars his real-life daughter Miley), makes his debut on Walt Disney Records with his new album "Home At Last."
A multi-platinum selling recording artist (Cyrus has eight top-ten singles on the Billboard country music charts) he also starred in the television series Doc from 2001-2004.
Hidden by darkness. Guarded by witches. Discovered by a boy. Stolen by a king. Whoever owns it will rule the world. Or destroy it.
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New Orleans Square opens
"To keep an operation like Disneyland going you have to pour it in there. It's what I call 'keeping the show on the road.' You have to keep throwing it in; you can't sit back and let it ride. Not just new attractions but keeping it staffed properly... you know, never letting your personnel get sloppy... never let them be unfriendly." -Walt Disney
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2008:
Disney takes part in this year's Comic-Con with presentations on this day that include: The Disney Animation Story Process, Disney: Race to Witch Mountain, and Spotlight on Floyd Norman.
2009:
At Comic-Con 2009, animation legends Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter join
veteran animation directors Lee Unkrich, Kirk Wise, Ron Clements and John Musker
for an animation panel. Hosted by Lasseter, it highlights such upcoming animated films as Disney-Pixar’s
Toy Story 3, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 3D version of Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney Animation Studios’
half-hour holiday TV special Prep & Landing, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Princess and the Frog and
Miyazaki’s Ponyo. Patton Oswalt moderate a group Q&A following the presentation.
Disney's Christmas Train (promoting a new version of A Christmas Carol - scheduled
for a November release) pulls into Chicago's Union Station. The 15th stop for Disney's "A
Christmas Carol Train Tour," it is traveling over 16,000 miles throughout the country and stopping at 40 cities and
36 states along the way, all to promote the new movie starring Jim Carrey.
G-Force, a spy-fi comedy film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney
Pictures in Disney Digital 3-D, is released. It is the first live-action Disney film to be produced in
Disney Digital 3-D (not including the two concert films- Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds
Concert and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience).
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1968:
Actress Kristin Chenoweth is born in Oklahoma. She is the voice of Rosetta for the 2009 Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and the 2008 Tinker Bell. A singer, musical theatre, film, and television actress, and author, TV fans know her from The West Wing and Pushing Daisies.
2001:
The soundtrack for The Princess Diaries is released. The collection includes performances by
Krystal Harris, Aaron Carter, and BBMak.
