1945:
Emmy Award-winning composer Bruce Broughton, whose music can be heard throughout the Disney theme parks and in Disney's The Rescuers Down Under and Bambi II, is born in Los Angeles, California. His Disney theme park projects include The Timekeeper/From Time to Time, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, The Making of Me, and Epcot's Spaceship Earth. Broughton also conducted and supervised the recording of Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" for Fantasia 2000.
2002:
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Mom's Best Friend" debuts on the Disney Channel as does the Disney Channel Original Movie Cadet Kelly, starring Hilary Duff and Christy Carlson Romano.
1859:
Author Kenneth Grahame is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
His most famous story The Wind in the Willows will be re-told in Disney's 1949 animated feature The Adventures of Icahbod and Mr. Toad. His 1898 children's book The Reluctant Dragon will serve as the key element for Disney's 1941 feature film The Reluctant Dragon.
1924:
Actor Sean McClory is born in Dublin, Ireland. His Disney credits
include the live-action features The Gnome-Mobile, The Happiest Millionaire, and Follow Me Boys!.
1986:
The Pirates of the Caribbean and Alice's Tea Party attractions both open in Tokyo Disneyland.
1987:
The television series The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Big Foot."
2001:
Disney On Ice begins a 4-day engagement at the
Tri-Cities Coliseum in Kennewick, Washington.
2006:
Actress Rhoda Williams - the voice of Drizella in Disney's 1950 animated feature Cinderella - passes away at age 75 in Oregon. A star of radio, television, and movies, Williams appeared on such programs as Dragnet, Ironside, The Twilight Zone, Marcus Welby, M.D. and General Hospital.
In 1994 Disney World
dropped the word "Center"
from the "EPCOT" name
and changed the letters to
lowercase "Epcot".
MAR
2008:
Celebrities visiting Disney World's Magic Kingdom on this day include entertainer Wayne Newton and St. Louis Cardinals All Star first baseman Albert Pujols.
Over at Disney's Animal Kingdom, a baby zebra named Kidani is born. The first Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra born at the Walt Disney World, he is named for the new expansion of Animal Kingdom Villas, which will be named Kidani Village.
1998:
Art director and Imagineer Marvin Davis passes away in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 87. Retired since 1975, Marvin Davis (not to be confused with Marc Davis - one of Walt's Nine Old Men) worked on the original concepts for Disneyland and later on such features as Moon Pilot, Babes in Toyland, Bon Voyage and Big Red, as well as television projects like the Zorro television series. Davis was responsible for designing the Alamo set for the Davy Crockett series and in 1962 received an Emmy Award for his art direction on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Married to Walt Disney's niece, Marjorie Sewell since 1955, Davis was inducted a Disney Legend in 1994.
"Marvin was a bulldog. He pushed things and kept pushing them until everyone, especially him, was completely satisfied with them. He was just extremely thorough and professional." -Marty Sklar
"Because Marvin had a rich background in live-action motion picture design, he had a strong sense and understanding of theater and how to give life or meaning to structures, which typically, most formally-trained architects aren't interested in. He knew how to create architectural form that had a message for people. For instance, his structures on Main Street U.S.A. are irrepressibly optimistic." -John Hench on Marvin Davis
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2009:
Liza Hunter-Galvan wins the inaugural Disney’s Princess Half Marathon at Epcot with a time of 1 hour, 18 minutes, 18 seconds! Galvan, originally from New Zealand, is a
two-time Olympic marathoner.
Margaret "Mank" Johnstone of Orange County, California, celebrates
her 107th birthday at Disneyland!
"Hear ye, hear ye! Our princess is 107 years old today!" -Disneyland Town Crier
