2005:
Thanksgiving Day
Mickey Mouse and friends take to the streets of Broadway spreading holiday cheer to
millions, as Walt Disney World Resort joins the 79th Annual Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. LeAnn Rimes and Disney characters ride aboard the
"S.S. Celebration" Showboat float, a replica of the riverboats of yesteryear. At 33 feet tall, the Showboat is the
largest vessel to ever float down the parade route! New balloons debuting in this year's parade include Mr. Potato
Head. A vintage toy first introduced in 1952, Mr. Potato Head's popularity has risen due to his appearances in the
Toy Story films.
1826:
Carlo Lorenzini, better known as Carlo Collodi, Italian
author of The Adventures of Pinocchio, is born in Florence, Tuscany (Italy).
1941:
After suffering a strike and declining revenue because of the war in Europe, Walt Disney's studio is in trouble. Disney animator Ward Kimball notes in his diary for this day: "100 layoffs announced. Studio personnel from 1600 down to 300. Geez, Is this the writing on the wall?" (Disney will save itself by doing defense films for the army & with the post-war release of Cinderella - be back on top.)
1942:
Actor Billy Connolly, the voice of Ben in Disney's 1995 release Pocahontas, is born in Scotland.
1950:
The Disney cartoon Morris, the Midget Moose, directed by Charles A. Nichols, is released.
1954:
The Disneyland television series airs its 5th episode on ABC with the 1949 movie "So Dear To My Heart," starring Burl Ives.
1955:
The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV on this
Thanksgiving Day. Today is Circus Day.
Over at Disneyland, the park debuts its "Christmas at Disneyland Festival" (which will run through January 8, 1956).
1968:
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs
part 1 of "The Treasure of San Bosco Reef."
1971:
The creator of This Day in Disney History takes his very first trip to
Walt Disney World - which includes a stay at the Contemporary Resort.
1994:
Thanksgiving Day
At Disney's Epcot, "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience," a multi-media 3-D movie
experience, opens. (It replaces Captain EO at the Journey into Imagination Pavilion.)
2000:
Disney's feature film 102 Dalmatians is generally released.
2003:
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa's Victoria & Albert's has been named
Central Florida's only AAA five-diamond restaurant.
2004:
The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights returns to
Disney-MGM Studios for the 2004 holiday season.
2006:
Epcot's annual Holidays Around the World kicks off in Florida.
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1956:
The second of eight installments titled "My Dad, Walt Disney," by Diane Disney Miller as told to Pete Martin (a "celebrity friendly" writer)
appears in the Saturday Evening Post.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine
eye." Pino means pine,
and occhio means eye.
1999:
At Epcot, The Global Neighborhood - Spaceship Earth's post show - is replaced with The New Global Neighborhood.
1888:
Actress Cathleen Nesbitt is born Cheshire, England. Fans of Disney's 1961
The Parent Trap will recognize her as Louise McKendrick.
2007:
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rob Thomas poses with Santa Goofy on Santa's Sleigh at the Magic Kingdom in Florida. Thomas, a solo artist and lead singer of the multi-platinum-selling rock/pop group Matchbox Twenty, is on vacation at Disney World.
1784:
Zachary Taylor, the twelfth United States President, is born in a log cabin in Montebello, near Barboursville in Orange County, Virginia. Sadly he will die in office from cholera morbus in 1850. Visit Taylor and all the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World's The Hall of Presidents.
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1990:
English novelist and playwright Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith passes away at age 94. Smith is best known for her 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" which was adapted into the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. The story was inspired by her very own Dalmatian named Pongo!
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Honey, I Shrunk the Audience opens
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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
-from Collodi's "The Adventures of Pinocchio"
102 Dalmatians released
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Writer Carlo Collodi originally had
not intended his novel as children's
literature, for in the original
version ... Pinocchio dies a
gruesome death! He later added
the part in which the Fairy with
Turquoise Hair (or "Blue Fairy" as
the Disney version names her)
rescues Pinocchio and transforms
him into a real boy.
"For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union
has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet
still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory...." -Zachary Taylor
