1967:
A new version of the CircleVision 360 film America the Beautiful debuts
in Disneyland. The film has been re-shot using the 9-camera CircleVision format (as opposed to the old 11-camera Circarama format).
2005:
Actor John Fiedler - the voice of Piglet in countless Winnie the Pooh movies and TV specials - passes away at age 80.
The Disneyland Railroad's newest locomotive No. 5 Ward Kimball
officially goes into service. It is named for the late Ward Kimball, Disney animator, musician, and railroad fan.
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1927:
Publisher and Disney Legend Didier Fouret is born in Paris, France. He will play a key role in bringing Disney's cast of characters to children and their parents throughout France. In 1979 he will develop a restaurant for the French pavilion in EPCOT's World Showcase.
1948:
Disney's animated feature Dumbo is released in Denmark.
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. Richard Deacon (known from TV's "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Leave It to Beaver") provides narration.
1980:
Disney's live-action comedy Herbie Goes Bananas - starring Cloris Leachman & Harvey Korman and the adventure film The Last Flight of Noah's Ark - starring Elliott Gould & Ricky Schroder, are both released in the U.S.
1999:
Mo Vaughn, the popular Anaheim Angels first baseman, along with boys and girls from the "Gene Autry RBI League," participate in a mini cavalcade and ceremony with the Dapper Dans on Main Street in Disneyland. The Dapper Dans lead the audience in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame."
2006:
The Orange County Star Wars Society holds the
Second Annual Star Wars Fan Day at Disneyland.
Disney Channel Asia airs High School Musical for the first time.
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1988:
"Disneyland Salutes Benny Goodman" is performed for the first of an eight-day engagement at the Anaheim park. Guest soloists Peanuts Hucko and Louise Tobin as well as alumni of the Benny Goodman orchestras are featured. (Goodman, who passed in 1986, can be heard in Disney's 1946 Make Mine Music.)
Animator Ward Kimball (one of Walt's "Nine Old Men") collected old railroad ephemera, was
an avid train enthusiast
and was a founding
member of the Orange
Empire Railway Museum
in Perris, California.
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1930:
Disney's Mickey Mouse film The Fire Fighters, directed by Burt Gillett, is released to theaters. Chief Mickey and Horace Horsecollar respond to save Miss Minnie from a blazing emergency!
2002:
Actor Patrick Cassidy first steps into the role of Radames in Disney's
Broadway production of Aida.
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1985:
At about 9 p.m., a Walt Disney World monorail catches fire while enroute from Epcot to the Magic Kingdom. Over two hundred passengers are safely evacuated from the elevated tracks by ladders and cherry-picker cranes.
2004:
Disney Channel debuts "Tanner," the 5th episode of the new series Phil of the Future. It is directed by Joana Kerns (who portrayed Maggie on the hit series Growing Pains between 1985-1992).
JUNE
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