2002:
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers with head coach Jon Gruden begin their
first summer training camp at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex in Florida.
1922:
The first Laugh-O-Gram cartoon Little Red Riding Hood is released. A silent black & white short, it is written, produced, and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Rudolph Ising. It is considered Walt's first full-length short cartoon as prior to this only minute-long cartoons have been produced.
1933:
Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Old King Cole, directed by David Hand, is released.
1938:
Disney's Donald Duck cartoon The Fox Hunt is released.
1941:
Actor David Warner, who appears in Disney's 1982 Tron as Ed Dillinger & Sark, and the Voice of Master Control Program, is born in Manchester, England. He's also the narrator for both Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You.
1998:
The Parent Trap (a remake of the 1961 film originally starring Hayley Mills) is released.
1999:
Walt Disney World's Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
opens with a special, invitation-only party, with Aerosmith as the guests of honor at Disney-MGM. (It will officially open to the public the following day.)
2000:
To mark the first anniversary of the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, Walt Disney World takes 80 Corvettes and forms the signature guitar in the Disney-MGM Studios parking lot.
2005:
The family stage show Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh launches a U.S. tour in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The new interactive and three-dimensional production is produced by Field Entertainment, Inc.
Disney's live-action film Sky High,
starrring Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston, opens in theaters.
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At Disneyland,
Tomorrowland was originally designed to be
a small scale city of the future. When the park opened in 1955, Tomorrowland
represented the distant
future of 1986.
1957:
Time magazine runs "How To Make A Buck" - an article about Walt Disney's success.
2007:
Disney's lavish Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast plays its final performance (at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City). The show first debuted on Broadway in 1994 on April 18 (three years after the release of the animated
movie) at the Palace Theater.
The Disney-owned Power Rangers begin a 15-city tour in San Diego in celebration of their 15th anniversary.
1955:
Illustrator and comics artist Dave Stevens is born in Lynwood, California.
Best known for creating The Rocketeer comic book and film character, Stevens was the first to win Comic-Con
International's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award in 1982. His Rocketeer character first appeared in
a back-up feature of Pacific Comics' Starslayer #2 and was released as a feature film by Walt Disney
Pictures/Touchstone Pictures in 1991.
2008:
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake located near Chino Hills (just east of Los Angeles) in
Southern California strikes at 11:45 AM, resulting in the evacuation of all attractions
at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. Most attractions are reopened by the evening. The temblor -
felt as far south as San Diego - causes little damage, but it is the first quake of its size to hit a metropolitan part of
California!
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1930:
The Mickey Mouse short The Shindig, directed by Burt Gillett, is released. Mickey,
Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle are off to a wild barn party. There Mickey plays the harmonica and dances with
gigantic Patricia Pig, then joins Minnie in a duet on "Pop Goes the Weasel." It is first cartoon where Clarabelle is
named on-screen.
"I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of." -Dave Stevens
1966:
Disney's live-action comedy feature film Lt. Robinson Crusoe, U.S.N. - starring Dick Van Dyke and Nancy Kwan - is generally released in the U.S. A comedic twist on Daniel Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe, Dick Van Dyke plays a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Character actor Richard Deacon (known from TV's "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Leave It to Beaver") provides narration.
