The Official: This Day in Disney History Thread!

[MagicalKingdom]

1882: Alan Alexander Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh,
is born in London, England. Known for his various children's poems,
he will also adapt Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in
the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.

1913: Legendary actor-singer-comedian Danny Kaye, the
host of the 1982 television program EPCOT
Center: The Opening Celebration, is born David
Daniel Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York.

1941: Actor David Stollery,
Marty Markham on Disney's Spin and Marty TV serial,
is born in Los Angeles, California. The Adventures
of Spin and Marty will be one of the most successful
segments of the 1950s ABC-TV series the Mickey Mouse Club.
Stollery will be named a Disney Legend in 2006.

1952: Donald Applecore, a Disney short featuring
Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale, is released. Directed
by Jack Hannah, this short finds Donald an apple farmer
trying to save his crop from two mischievous chipmunks.

1956: The Disneyland television series airs
"A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris"
(the author whose work inspired Song of the South).

2003: Winnie the Pooh Day is celebrated to
honor his author A. A. Milne.
Today is Winnie the Pooh Day.

 

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january 19

1935-"Mickey's Man Friday" a short is released (one of Mickey's Last Black and White Cartoons

 

[MagicalKingdom]

January 19

1924: Lillian Bounds from Idaho (future wife of Walt Disney) starts
working at the Disney Studio in Hollywood. She will work for
Disney as an ink & paint girl making fifteen dollars a week.
Lillian has been recommended by her sister's friend - who
is also an employee. She has taken the job because it is
within walking distance of her older sister Hazel's
house (where she is currently living) and doesn't
require her to spend bus fare!

1933: The Mid-Winter Snow Carnival - dedicated to Mickey Mouse -
is held at Lake Arrowhead, California. Walt Disney himself
attends and awards a Mickey Mouse doll to young Mildred Chanter,
winner of the "Mickey Mouse" snowman building contest!
Some 50,000 children attend the snowy event. (Years later Disney's
The Parent Trap will be filmed in Lake Arrowhead.)

1951: Disney's Chip 'n Dale short Chicken in the Rough,
featuring the voices of James Macdonald and Dessie Flynn,
is released.

2007: Disney Channel airs the Hannah Montana
episode "School Bully" for the first time.

 

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January 20

1963 -First part of "johnny Shiloh" airs on TV

1989-The WD Co. participates in The Presidential inaugural Parade for George Bush in Washington DC

2009- President Barack H. Obama is Inaugurated as the 44 President of The United States Of America!

 

[MagicalKingdom]

1963: The TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
airs part 1 of "Johnny Shiloh." Set during the American
Civil War. actor Kevin Corcoran plays the title role of
a Union drummer boy who runs away from home to join his hometown unit,
even though he is too young to legally join. The episode also
features Brian Keith as Sergeant Gabe Trotter.

1990: Although nominated for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, The Little
Mermaid is edged out by Driving Miss Daisy at the Golden Globe Awards.
The Little Mermaid does win Best Original Song - Motion Picture
for "Under the Sea" - written by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman. Ironically
they beat out another of their own tunes nominated - "Kiss the Girl"
(also from The Little Mermaid). Alan Menken is awarded Best Original Score -
Motion Picture for his work on The Little Mermaid.

 

[MagicalKingdom]

Jan 21

1995:

The 52nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the
best in film and television for 1994, are
presented at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California.
The Lion King is awarded for Best Picture - Comedy/Musical.
The animated feature also wins for Best Original Score
(by Hans Zimmer) and for Best Original Song "Can You Feel
The Love Tonight" (written by Elton John & Time Rice).


Disney World's Epcot movie Symbiosis is replaced with the
live action/ animated movie Circle of Life: An Environmental
Fable at the Harvest Theater (located in The Land pavilion).
The new film explains the many dangers facing the environment,
as well as people's responsibility for preserving it.


Disneyland's 40th Anniversary Collector Series Cards
are handed out for the very first time at the Anaheim park.
The card "1955 - Disneyland Park Opening Day" is distributed
to all visitors. (Over the next 40 days, 40 different cards
will be handed out, each representing a different Disneyland event.)


1996:

Although nominated for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at
the Golden Globe Awards, Toy Story is edged out by Babe.
"Colors of the Wind," written by Alan Menken & Stephen
Schwartz from Pocahontas wins Best Original Song - Motion
Picture (beating out Randy Newman's "You Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story).

 

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January 22

1984-Disney's Half Time Show for super bowl XVII in Tampa, FL

 

[MagicalKingdom]

2008:
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards® are announced. Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille receives five nominations (the most ever for a Disney/Pixar film). In addition to being a nominee for Best Animated Feature Film, the film also earns director Brad Bird a nomination in the Original Screenplay category (along with Jan Pinkava & Jim Capobianco). Ratatouille also receives nominations for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) for composer Michael Giacchino; Achievement in Sound Editing (Randy Thom and Michael Silvers); and Achievement in Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane).

 

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January 23

1928-"Neck'n'Neck" an oswald Short is released

1999- Grand Opening of Cirque di Sole at DTDWS

 

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January 24

1941-"Pluto's Playmates" is released

2007 - A night in the Cinderella Castle Suite is awarded to a family for the very first time!

 

[MagicalKingdom]

January 24, 2003:
More than 100 Oscar statuettes presented over the past 75 years are

featured in a new exhibition at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences beginning this day. Included in the exhibit is the regular sized statuette and its seven smaller friends that were awarded to Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.



The Lizzie McGuire episode "Dear Lizzie" debuts on the Disney Channel. Premiering the same night is That's So Raven with the episode "A Fish Called Raven". The episode is directed by Fred Savage (star of the 1980s TV series The Wonder Years.)

 

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January 25
1961- 101 Dalmations, Disney's 17th animated feature film, premieres. It is the first Disney feature to solely use the Xerox process for transferring the animators' drawings to cels. Prior to this, each one of the animators' drawings had to be hand-traced in ink onto a cel.

1993- Toontown holds its official grand opening festivities at Disneyland. Some of the celebrities who take part in the special events and appear in the parade are Robin Williams, Danny DeVito, Sally Fields and Tom Selleck.

1998- At Super Bowl XXXII, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway declares, "I'm going to Disneyland!" after his team defeats the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.

2007- Jim and Lisa Fouch and their children, Brad and Hannah, make history as the first WDW guests to win a night's stay in Cinderella's Castle.

 

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January 26

1955-"Davy Crocket Goes to Congress" is released on Disneyland The T.V. Series

1972-"The Mouse Factory" debuts on T.V.

 

[MagicalKingdom]

January 26, 2010
The Kansas City Star reports that a museum honoring Walt Disney is to be created on the site of his old Laugh-O-Gram Studios in Kansas City.

The Koala Brothers, a new addition to Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney, debuts. The show is animated using plasticine, clay-like figures and traditional stop-motion techniques.

 

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January 27

1996-Inaugural race of Indy 200 at WDW

2006 - "The Emperor's New School" animated series premieres on Disney Channel.

 

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January 28
1932-" The Duck Hunt " a Mickey Short is released

1944-"How To be a sailor" a Goofy Short is released

 

[MagicalKingdom]

January 28, 2005:
Aliens of the Deep, a Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media Presentation, is
released to large format/IMAX theaters. The documentary, about a team of
oceanographers and NASA scientists who investigate ten hydrothermal vents in both the Atlantic and Pacific, is directed by James Cameron.

 

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January 29

1941- Disney's 3rd feature film, Fantasia, has its Hollywood premiere.

1959- Disney's 16th feature film, Sleeping Beauty, premieres at the Fox Wilshire theater in Los Angeles.

1987- Snow White and the 7 dwarves parade onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of Disney's highest-ever first quarter revenues.

1995- At Super Bowl XXIX, Jerry Rice and Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers shout, "We're going to Disney World!" after their team defeats the San Diego Chargers, 49-26.

1996-"The Lion King" named favorite soundtrack at american Music Awards

2002- Ten former major league baseball players participate in the Atlanta Braves' Dream Week Fantasy Camp at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Florida.

 

[MagicalKingdom]

January 29, 1960:
The television series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode "Wild Burro of The West."

January 29, 1977:
Although nominated for a Golden Globe, the song "I'd Like to Be You for a Day" (written by Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha from Disney's Freaky Friday) is beat out for Best Original Song - Motion Picture by "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" (written by Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams).

 

[WeatherbySwann]

A little late, but . . .

January 23
2009 - Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade debuts as a revised version of Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade.