2004:
Disney's animated short Lorenzo has its European premiere in Annecy, France. It is based upon pencil sketches and a story idea created by Disney
veteran Joe Grant 20 years ago!
1975:
Walt Disney World's version of Mission to Mars - developed with
NASA - debuts in Tomorrowland. It replaces the Flight to the Moon attraction (which opened in
December 1971). Guests first enter a viewing area known as Mission Control, which is modeled after a typical
mission control center with chairs and control panels for about ten seated Audio-Animatronic "technicians" whose
backs are to the audience. Facing the audience is the Audio-Animatronic flight director Mr. Johnson (voiced by
radio & TV announcer George Walsh) who shows film clips and explains how man has made numerous advances
in space travel. After the pre-show, guests board their spacecraft - a circular theater with stadium-like seating
featuring circular flat screens on the ceiling and floor. Third Officer Collins (voiced by veteran Pete Renoudet)
serves as the guests' in-flight narrator.
(Mission To Mars will close its doors October 4, 1993 and later re-open as the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien
Encounter. Today the area is known as Stitch's Great Escape!)
1989:
Disney Channel airs episode 33 of MMC. Today is Anything Can Happen Day!
1999:
Bear in the Big Blue House - Live on Stage opens at Disney-MGM Studios
in Florida. The interactive stage show will run through August 2001.
2002:
Disney's animated series Kim Possible premieres on Disney Channel. The series revolves around the life of Kimberly Ann Possible (voiced by Christy Carlson Romano), a junior adventurer who deals with super-villains trying to take over the world and her own family & school life.
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1946:
BBC-TV in England returns to the airwaves after a near 7-year absence (due to the
second World War). In an attempt to emphasize continuity, the first day's program includes the cartoon
Mickey's Gala Premiere (the same Disney cartoon that had been abruptly interrupted in September 1939 - the day Germany attacked Poland).
1894:
Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky - aviation pioneer, inventor, and
influential advocate of strategic air power - is born. He will be famous as the
author of the influential 1942 book, Victory Through Air Power, which Disney will
adapt into a motion picture (and release in July 1943).
2006:
Disney World announces that the Cinderella Castle apartment will be
completely decorated and upholstered as a 'royal bedchamber', which
can sleep up to four people. It will become available as a once-in-a-lifetime experience
during the Year of a Million Dreams celebration taking place at all eleven Disney theme parks. An
overnight stay in the apartment will be a prize randomly awarded to a guest at the Magic
Kingdom, or any park at the Walt Disney World Resort.
1993:
Actor Jordan Fry - the voice of Lewis in Disney's 2007 Meet the Robinsons - is born in Washington.
1950:
Walt Disney pens a letter of agreement between himself and writer Cameron Shipp, who is to write a serialized biography of Disney for the Saturday Evening Post.
(It will take another 6 years before the series of articles appears in print.)
The concept for Disney's Hollywood Studios (originally called Disney-MGM Studios) came from an idea to have a movie pavilion at Epcot. Once Imagineers realized that the range of possibilities were larger than just one attraction, the idea for a 3rd
theme park was born!
1940:
Disney's Donald Duck film Mr. Duck Steps Out, directed by Jack King and written by Carl Barks, is released. Clarence Nash supplies the voices for Donald as well as Daisy, and Huey, Dewey & Louie!
1990:
The Disney Channel Premiere Film Back Home debuts.
2005:
Disney Channel debuts the That's So Raven episode "Mismatch Maker." The episode is directed by Fred Savage (star of the TV series The Wonder Years.)
Disney releases the album Disney Girlz Rock featuring Hilary & Haylie Duff, Raven, Everlife, Christy Carlson Romano, Christina Aguilera, and Aly & AJ.
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1969:
Actress Kim Rhodes is born in Portland, Oregon. Fans of The Suite Life of Zack &
Cody know her as Carey Martin, a headlining singer at the Tipton Hotel as well as the mother of Zack and Cody.
(Soap opera fans will recognize Rhodes from both Another World and As the World Turns.)
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard our McDonnell-Douglas DC-88 space liner for today's Mission to Mars. The captain has asked that you remain in your seats at all times. And please, no smoking." -Tomorrowland Cast Member
