2005:
Pooh's Heffalump Movie is released to DVD. Originally released in February
2005, it features the voices of Jim Cummings (as Pooh), John Fiedler (as
Piglet), and newcomer Kyle Stanger (as Lumpy). The animated film is the first
in which Pooh narrates.
Walt Disney Records releases the CD Mousercise.
1968:
In recognition of his distinguished public service and outstanding contributions to the
United States and to the world, U.S. President Johnson presents a Congressional
Gold Medal to the widow of the late Walt Disney. The Congressional Gold Medal is an award
bestowed by the U.S. Congress and is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in
the United States. Disney had also been awarded the Medal of Freedom back in September 1964.
1987:
The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Down the Long Hills."
1989:
Raymond A. Disney (one of Walt's brothers & the second child born to Flora & Elias Disney) passes at the age of 98. He had been in the insurance business.
Disney Channel airs the 23rd episode of MMC.
Today is Anything Can Happen Day!
1991:
Walt Disney Pictures Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, starring Gabrielle Anwar and Cliff Roberston, is released. This true-life adventure tells the story of Sonora Webster, a teenage runaway during the depression, who wants to be a rider of diving horses.
2004:
Disney Interactive launches Toontown Online, a 3D multiplayer game.
It is announced that Disney has launched an 18-month publicity campaign for its theme park in Hong Kong (which will open in 2005).
1918:
Oil millionaire & entrepreneur Jack Wrather - the original owner of the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California - is born in Amarillo, Texas.
1918:
Award-winning matte designer, special effects creator, and Disney Legend
Peter Ellenshaw is born in London, England. Best known for his incredible matte paintings,
he worked as a special effetcs technician on such Disney films as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Treasure
Island, The Story of Robin Hood, and most famously Mary Poppins for which he won an Academy Award. He
was also awarded an Oscar for the 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Ellenshaw's talent and experience in
special visual effects will be so respected that Disney will call him out of retirement after 10 years to work on
the 1979 The Black Hole.
2007:
Thousands of colorful fireworks fill the nighttime sky over Barcelona, Spain as, for the first time, the Disney Magic cruise ship enters the Spanish port city.
It is Disney's first-ever foray into the European cruise market.
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opens in Moscow, Russia.
1934:
Hollywood Party - a musical film starring Jimmy Durante, directed by Roy Rowland and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer premieres. It features 31 stars like Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, and Mickey Mouse - who introduces a Technicolor 7-minute sequence "The Hot Choc-Late Soldiers" created by Disney. (The film will be generally released June 1.)
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At Disneyland's Haunted Mansion,
the image of Madame Leota is
that of former Disney Imagineer
Leota Toombs Thomas. But
Madame's voice is supplied by
Eleanor Audley (the voice of
Maleficent in Disney's
Sleeping Beauty).
Disney Magic visits Spain
2009:
Disney's live musical Tarzan completes its Holland engagement at the Circus Theatre in Scheveningen, just outside Amsterdam after 900 performances. The production, which opened in April 2007 has been seen by 1.6 million audience members during its run, making it one of the most successful musicals in Holland.
"What was Walt Disney like? That's what we'd all like to know, isn't it? Walt was the only person who was not an artist who could talk to you like an artist. The only problem you would have had with Walt was if you were not as enthusiastic about a project as he was." -Peter Ellenshaw
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THIS DAY MADE IN THE USA
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"Serpents and spiders,
tail of a rat call in the
spirits wherever
they're at."
-Madame Leota
