1911 - Animator Andy Engman is born in Vasa, Finland. He will work at the Disney Studios from 1937-1971 on such classic features as Snow White, Make Mine Music, and The Jungle Book.

1940 - Legendary singer-piano player Dr. John is born Malcolm Rebennack in New Orleans. He will go on to record a version of "Cruella DeVil" (for the CD Classic Disney Volume 5) and a duet of "You've Got a Friend in Me" (for singer Steve Tyrell's Disney Standards CD).

1942 - First-year Mouseketeer Ronnie Steiner is born in Canada.

1943 - An ad for War Bonds featuring Disney art appears in an NFL program for a game between the Pittsburgh Steagles and the Detroit Lions. (The Pittsburgh Steelers have temporarily merged with the Philadelphia Eagles as team rosters have become depleted by the ongoing world war.) The art is from the Ave Maria sequence of Fantasia.

1952 - The Mickey Mouse cartoon Pluto's Christmas Tree, directed by Jack Hannah, is released.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Fun With Music Day.

1956 - The Disneyland television series airs episode 58 - "At Home with Donald Duck."

1957 - Disney's TV series Zorro airs the 7th episode of the season titled, "Monastario Sets a Trap."

1958 - The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs part 1 of "Johnny Tremain."

1961 - Sculptor, animator, designer, comic book artist, and Disney Imagineer Rubén Procopio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (his family will move to the U.S. when he is 4). Affiliated with Walt Disney Feature Animation, Procopio is credited with restoring the maquette process to feature animation film production in the early 1980's. His extensive Disney credits include The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Rescuers Down Under, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.

1994 - The Timekeeper (a CircleVision 360 film using Audio-Animatronics and special effects) opens in Walt Disney World's Tomorrowland, replacing America the Beautiful. The show features a levitating android called Nine-Eye (the 9 eyes she has represents the 9 cameras used in filming the show in the round, thus showing each of her 9 eyes on each one of the 9 movie screens) who travels back in time while under the complete control of the zany Timekeeper (voiced by Robin Williams).

1997 - Absent-Minded Inventors and the Search for Flubber, a half-hour special airs on ABC-TV. Hosted by Bill Nye, it is a promo for the release of Flubber.

2001 - Disney World unveils its holiday lights and decorations with The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights at Disney-MGM Studios. (Arkansas businessman Jennings Osborne received worldwide attention when he first created the luminous light show for his daughter more than a decade ago.) The glowing bulbs light Residential Street, Washington Square and New York Street in merry holiday displays that include 170 flying angels, two 30-foot-tall carousels, illuminated trees, and 50 lighted Mickey Mouse figures.

2001 - The newly redesigned restaurant Avalon Cove debuts at Disney's California Adventure. Located along the boardwalk entrance into Paradise Pier, the restaurant features appearances by Disney characters.

2003 - The Lizzie McGuire episode "Just One of the Guys" debuts on Disney Channel as does the Disney Channel Original Movie Full-Court Miracle.

2006 - John Tartaglia and Jonathan Freeman join the Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast. Tartaglia assumes the role of Lumiere and Freeman the role of Cogsworth.

2007 - Amy Adams (co-star of Disney's Enchanted) and Richard Cook, Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City.

2007 - Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre offers a special engagement of Walt Disney Pictures' magical new musical-fantasy Enchanted.

2008 - Disney's 47th animated feature Bolt (a CGI animated film) is released. The film centers around Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) - a white German Shepherd who has lived all his life on the set of a TV show in which he portrays a superhero dog, and as a result thinks that his superpowers are real! The voice cast also includes Miley Cyrus (as Penny) and Malcolm McDowell (as Dr. Calico). Bolt is Disney's first film made as a 3D feature during its production. The two previously CGI features from the studio were first produced as 2D movies and later made stereoscopic after completion.

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