2005:
Ashley Brown, formerly featured in the recent tour of Disney's On the Record, joins the Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast. She
is the 15th actress to portray Belle in the long-running Disney hit.
The Disneyland Opera House hosts this year's Disney Legends program in honor of the park's 50th anniversary. This year's awards mark the first time that an hourly Cast Member is recognized.
1863:
Writer and linguist Jacob Grimm dies in Berlin, Germany. He and his brother Wilhelm were the first to write down such classic tales as Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.
1878:
Author Upton Sinclair is born in Baltimore, Maryland. His book The Gnomemobile will be the inspiration for Disney's 1967 musical film The Gnome-Mobile.
1926:
The Alice Comedy Alice's Monkey Business is released.
2001:
It is reported that Disney's extraterrestrial animated feature,
Lilo & Stitch, may get a makeover. The ending scenes have a cute little alien sneaking on board a 747 and taking the jumbo jet for a joy ride through the towers of Honolulu. Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001 Disney has asked screenwriters to rewrite the last scenes. They may replace the airplane with a spaceship.
2002:
The second annual Disney's Pin Celebration begins at Epcot.
The Lizzie McGuire episode "Party Over Here" debuts on Disney Channel.
Hilary Duff's sister Haylie appears as Cousin Amy.
Spirited Away, a 2001 Japanese animated film written and directed by famed
animator Hayao Miyazaki, is released in the U.S. through Walt Disney Pictures.
The film centers on a sullen ten-year-old girl in the middle of her family's move to the suburbs and an
awkward wander into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters. (It will win many awards, including an
Oscar for Best Animated Feature - a first for a feature-length Japanese animated film.)
2003:
A "Sneak Peek" at the new Mickey's PhilharMagic takes place for Annual and Premium Annual Passholders at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
Meanwhile over at Epcot, construction begins on Soarin'.
Walt Disney's Hometown Toonfest takes place in Marceline, Missouri (Walt's boyhood home).
The Series Lilo & Stitch debuts on ABC-TV.
Disney's California Adventure presents Disney's Fiesta Latina
(a celebration featuring mariachi bands, craft booths and spicy food) for the first of three weekends.
2004:
The Walt Disney Company names the 2004 Disney Legends during a ceremony at the Disney Legends Plaza at the Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
Among the Disney treasures on
dispaly at the 2009 D23 Expo -
the actual Volkswagen Beetle
that “played” the role of
Herbie in The Love Bug, the
costume worn by Michael
Jackson as "Captain EO," and a
Nautilus submarine prop from
Disney's feature 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
1954:
The hit television series The Milton Berle Show airs an episode featuring
Ward Kimball's Dixieland jazz band The Firehouse Five Plus Two.
Henry Samueli, co-founder and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist, is born in California. In June 2005 he and his wife Susan will buy the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (now called the Anaheim Ducks) from the Walt Disney Company for $75 million.
1911:
Arranger, composer, and actor Frank De Vol is born in Moundsville, West Virginia.
De Vol wrote the scores for many Hollywood movies, including Disney's Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo and Herbie
Goes Bananas. He also composed music for the Disney TV episodes The Ghosts of Buxley Hall and Tales of the
Apple Dumpling Gang. (Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, De Vol wrote arrangements for the studio recordings of
such singers as Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett, and composed TV themes such as Family Affair and The Brady
Bunch. De Vol also played bandleader Happy Kyne on Martin Mull's talk-show parody sitcom, Fernwood 2 Nite -
later titled America 2 Nite.)
1940:
Disney's Donald Duck short Window Cleaners is released. Donald and Pluto are window cleaners on the side of a skyscraper!
2008:
The 10th Annual Walt Disney's Hometown Toonfest
takes place in Marceline, Missouri.
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"Nearly all my labors have been devoted, either directly or indirectly, to the investigation of our earlier language, poetry and laws. These studies may have appeared to many, and may still appear, useless; to me they have always seemed a noble and earnest task, definitely and inseparably connected with our common fatherland, and calculated to foster the love of it. My principle has always been in these investigations to under-value nothing, but to utilize the small for the illustration of the great, the popular tradition for the elucidation of the written monuments." -Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
Spirited Away released
Disney Legends inducted
2009:
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awards the 2008-2009 Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements on the "61st Primetime Emmy Awards" broadcast on CBS. Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place wins Outstanding Children's Program.
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