2006:
Sarah Uriarte Berry and Donny Osmond join the cast of Disney's Broadway
hit Beauty and the Beast. Berry returns to the role of Belle as Osmond steps into the part of
Gaston for the first time.
It is reported that The Walt Disney Company has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million!
Disney pop duo Aly and AJ are nominated for "Contemporary Inspirational Artist of the Year" (also known as Christian Artist of the Year) for the 2006 American Music Awards.
2003:
Journey Through Time, the biggest pin trading event of the year in Disney World, kicks off at Epcot's World ShowPlace.
1927:
Disney's second Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Oh, Teacher is released.
1928:
Actor Adam West, the voices of Ace in the 2005 Chicken Little and
Uncle Art in the 2007 Meet The Robinsons, is born in Walla Walla,
Washington. He is also the voice of Timothy 'Fearless Ferret' North on Disney's Kim
Possible - a washed-up actor who believes he is the superhero he portrayed on television
... a nod to West's 1960s TV role of Batman! (Fans of Family Guy know him as the voice of Mayor Adam West - an intense, soft-spoken, delusional politician.)
1948:
Actor Jeremy Irons, one time narrator of Epcot's Spaceship Earth and
H.G. Wells for The Timekeeper attraction film From Time to Time, is born in Cowes
(Isle of Wight), England. Irons is also the voice of Scar in the animated feature The Lion King.
1952:
The Mickey Mouse cartoon Pluto's Party is released.
1956:
The Disneyland television series airs episode 49 - "The Great Cat Family."
1959:
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Los Angeles, California during his
thirteen-day U.S. visit. He is suppose to tour Los Angeles housing projects, while his wife and children
visit Disneyland. Although he wishes to accompany them to Disneyland, he is turned down when security officials
cannot guarantee his safety. The disgruntled Premier and his family attend a luncheon at Twentieth-Century Fox
Studios instead.
1966:
Walt Disney gives what will turn out to be his last press conference. He speaks about the development of the Mineral King ski resort in southern California. It will feature skiing, an alpine village, skating rink, hotels, dormitories for young people, and restaurants. (Disney's plans will quickly be put to a stop when critics and environmentalists feel the untouched land would be desecrated. Congress will eventually vote to turn Mineral King into a part of Sequoia National Park.)
Disneyland's Monsanto Hall of Chemistry is removed to make way for the new Adventure Through Inner Space attraction.
1974:
Raquel Herring, a member of Disney Channel's
The All New Mickey Mouse Club, is born in Miami, Florida.
1987:
Actress Danielle Panabaker, Layla in Disney's 2005 Sky High, is born in Georgia. She
is also known for her roles in the Disney Channel films Stuck in the Suburbs and Read It and Weep along with her
younger sister Kay.
2000:
Disney's direct-to-video
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is released.
2001:
In response to recent world events in Washington, DC, New York City, and elsewhere, the Walt Disney World Resort further heightens security measures on property.
Investor and billionaire Sid Bass informs Disney CEO Michael Eisner that the Bass family must sell a combined 135 million shares of Disney stock, representing 6.7% of the company total shares, worth $2.2 billion. At this time, the Bass family is the largest shareholder in the The Walt Disney Company. Bass is being forced to sell his Disney holdings as a result of a margin call.
1949:
Recording begins for Disney's upcoming animated feature Cinderella. The film will feature tunes by the songwriting teams of Mack David, Al Hoffman, & Jerry Livingston, and Paul J. Smith & Ned Wallace.
Stage, film, and TV actor Ernie Sabella is born in Westchester, New York. He is the voice
of Pumbaa for Disney's The Lion King and multiple sequels and spin-offs. Sabella also appears in episodes of
That's So Raven as Mr. Petrachelli and as himself on the 1996 broadcast of Walt Disney World Very Merry
Christmas Parade. (Sabella has also worked with actor Nathan Lane, the voice of Disney's Timon, in Guys and
Dolls, Mousehunt and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.)
Snow White was the first film ever to have a complete merchandising campaign ready to roll on the day the movie opened! Movie fans were able to purchase Snow White mementos from Sears and Woolworth's.
"Physical distance is no longer a barrier to communication. Today, the entire world is our next door neighbor."
-Jeremy Irons narration for Epcot's Spaceship Earth
1989:
The Library of Congress selects Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to be placed on the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or esthetically significant."
2008:
Rising Disney star Demi Lovato films the first episode of her to-air-in-2009 Disney series "Sonny with a Chance." The show is about a teenage girl, played by Lovato, who is given the chance to join the cast of a popular teenage soap opera featuring her teen idol.
Disney Channel debuts its new series The Suite Life on Deck in the UK.
(It will premiere in the U.S. September 26.)
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1964:
Actress Kim Richards is born in Mineola, New York. One of the most popular child actresses of her era, Richards appeared in such Disney live-action films as The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton, Escape to Witch Mountain, No Deposit, No Return, and Return from Witch Mountain. Ironically she appears in Disney's 2009 Race to Witch Mountain - a nod to the series of films in which she starred as a child. (Fans of the 1970 sitcom Nanny and the Professor will remember Richards as Prudence Everett.)
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2009:
The 2009 Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest is held in Marceline, Missouri.
The eleventh year for this celebration of the life and work of Walt Disney (whose family once lived
in Marceline) Toonfest features a parade, a silent auction, exhibits, and special guest cartoonists.
Adam West born
1986:
The day after the debut of Captain EO in Disneyland, the park holds a 60-hour press party for the Michael Jackson 3D film - staying open from 10 a.m. on this day until 10 p.m. on September 21. Each party guest receives a coupon, validated when they see the film, which can be redeemed for a complimentary starfighter T-shirt.
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