1959:
Stand-up comedian, impressionist, and television/voice actor Dave Coulier is born in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Most famous for the role of Joey Gladstone on the sitcom Full House, his Disney Channel credits include The Thirteenth Year and The Even Stevens Movie.
2004:
AOL Music First View hosts the online premiere of Clay Aiken's "Proud Of Your Boy" music video. The song was originally composed for Aladdin and was recovered from the Disney vault for the film's 2-disc special edition DVD (to be released October 5).
Hollywood Records releases This Is My Time, the third album by singer/actress Raven-Symoné (of Disney Channel's That's So Raven).
The hot days of summer are behind us and each day
is shorter than the last.
1945:
The Disney short Hockey Homicide premieres.
1947:
Walt Disney appears on a live radio broadcast of
The Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Show. Walt
promotes his newest picture, Fun and Fancy Free
(which features Bergen as himself).
1951:
Disney's Pluto cartoon Cold Turkey is released.
1996:
IllumiNations 25 - a new show to celebrate Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary - debuts at Epcot (although it will have an official debut in October).
1998:
Infoseek and Walt Disney announce that their Internet portal site will be called
GO NETWORK. The companies expect to launch it before December. (A portal site
is an all-purpose Web page from which users can get onto the Internet as well as take advantage of functions such as e-mail and chat groups.)
2001:
Marceline, Missouri, the small mid-western town that Walt Disney used as his model for Main Street USA hosts his 100th birthday celebration starting today.
A spokesman confirms that the Bass family of Texas has sold a sizeable chunk, 135
million shares, of their stake in the Walt Disney Company. The sale generates about
$2 billion at about $15 a share.
650 Walt Disney World volunteer Cast Members do their part in
support of a multi-network two-hour TV broadcast to benefit victims
of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Disney World reservations phone system is used as part of the network to take calls of people wanting to donate money. More than 40,000 calls are received by Disney staffers alone, helping contribute to the 150 million dollars collected.
The Proud Family, an animated sitcom, premieres on Disney Channel as does the
Lizzie McGuire episode "The Untitled Stan Jansen Project".
2002:
The city of Marceline, Missouri hosts the fourth annual
Walt Disney's Hometown Toonfest.
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1909:
Ruth Patricia Shellhorn is born in Los Angeles, California. By 1955 she will be a landscape architect working in South Pasadena. Three months before the opening of Disneyland, Walt will ask her to contribute her talents to his new theme park. She will serve as liaison between the Disney Studios and the hired designers and will be responsible for Town Square, Main Street, the Plaza, and eventually other areas of the park including Frontierland.
1904:
Science fiction writer Alexander H. Key is born in La Plata, Maryland. His novel Escape to Witch Mountain will be the inspiration for the Disney 1975 live-action film.
Fantasia premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York in 1940 ... the same theater previously known as the Colony, where Steamboat Willie had opened in 1928!
1994:
Apple Computer begins sponsorship of EPCOT's Innoventions East.
1997:
Actress Heather Locklear guest stars on a Disney Channel episode of Muppets Tonight.
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1912:
Animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films
Chuck Jones is born in Spokane, Washington. Best known for his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Brothers, Jones actually worked at Disney Studios in 1953. He was teamed up with Ward Kimball for a four month period of uncredited work on Sleeping Beauty.
"Disney’s was to animation what Griffith was to live action. Almost all the tools were discovered at Disney’s. They were the only ones who had the money, and who could and did take the time to experiment." -Chuck Jones
1986:
The Golden Girls (a sitcom produced by Disney's Touchstone Television and distributed by Buena Vista Television) wins 3 Emmy Awards. The show itself wins for Outstanding Comedy Series, the Outstanding Lead Actress award goes to Betty White, and Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan are awarded for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.
The Golden Girls win Emmys
Chuck Jones born
