MAY 16 Disney History

Disney's 1991 Beauty and the

Beast made Academy Award

history as the very first animated feature ever nominated for Best

Picture. It didn't win Best

Picture, but did take home

Oscars for Best Music, Original

Score and Best Music, Song.

The music also

earned four

Grammy Awards!

2003:

The first of five Star Wars Weekend events blasts off at the

Disney-MGM Studios.

The 30th Daytime Emmy Awards are presented at New York City's Radio City

Music Hall. Disney's Teacher's Pet wins for Outstanding Special Class Children's Animated Program and

actor Shia Lebeouf, of Disney Channel's Even Stevens, wins for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series.

The Lizzie McGuire episode "My Fair Larry"

debuts on Disney Channel.

"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for my having been there."

- Jim Henson

1703:

French author Charles Perrault passes away at age 75 in Paris, France.

Often referred to as the "Father of the fairy tale," Perrault was responsible for laying the foundations of a new

literary genre with such classics as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood.

1872:

Actor Taylor Holmes - the voice of King Stefan in Disney's 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty (his last credited screen role) - is born in Newark, New Jersey.

1927:

Disney's Alice Comedy Alice's Three Bad Eggs is released.

1928:

Walt Disney applies for a trademark for "Mickey Mouse," for use in motion pictures.

1961:

Kevin McDonald, the voice of Pleakley in Disney's 2002 Lilo & Stitch, is born Montreal, Canada. McDonald also appears in the 2005 live-action feature Sky High, as Mr. Medulla. (Comedy fans may remember him as a member of the Canadian troupe - Kids In The Hall.)

1974:

The Disney barbershop harmony group, The Dapper Dans appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

1989:

An animation cel and background from Disney's 1934 Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphan's Benefit are sold for $286,000. It is the highest price ever paid (at this time).

Episode 17 of MMC airs on Disney Channel.

Model/actress Christie Brinkley appears on Guest Day.

1990:

Muppet creator, filmmaker, and television producer Jim Henson dies of pneumonia less than 24 hours after being rushed to a New York hospital. The fifty-three-year-old was misdiagnosed earlier in the week and had he been put on antibiotics only 8 hours earlier, it is believed Henson would have survived. A memorial service for Henson will air on PBS and draw millions of viewers and dozens of celebrities in reverence for his life and work. (He was completing negotiations with the Disney company to include his Muppets at their theme parks at the time of his death.)

Actor Marc John Jefferies, who appears in the 2003 live-action The Haunted Mansion, is born in New York City. He also lent his voice to the 2001 Monsters, Inc.

1991:

Jim Henson's Muppet-Vision 3-D opens at the Disney-MGM Studios theme

park at Disney World. The attraction is housed in a 500-plus seat multi-

media 3-D theater located in a further expansion of the backlot annex area.

2001:

The Disney-MGM Studios hosts the third in the Countdown Series Pin Events. This event offers more exciting pin releases and Disney artist signings.

2002:

Pin traders head off to sea aboard the Disney Pin Trading Cruise. The

3-night trip includes "Captain Mickey's Treasure Hunt," a pin scavenger hunt during which guests scour the ship

and Disney's private island, Castaway Cay, for hidden treasures.

1952:

Two Gun Goofy, a Disney short directed by Jack Kinney, is released by RKO. In this cartoon, Goofy is made sheriff of a small western

town after accidentally foiling a stagecoach robbery!

1968:

Disney's animated The Jungle Book is released in Hong Kong.

2008:

Players from the Chinese National Baseball League visit Disneyland in California. The players are visiting the United States in preparation for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.

The reality mini-series Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream debuts on Disney Channel.

1946:

Walt Disney and his wife Lillian arrive in St. Louis, Missouri (after a brief stopover in Walt's boyhood town of Marceline). They have traveled to St. Louis in order to attend an awards ceremony, being held the following day.

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