1911 - Illustrator Paul Murry is born in Missouri. He will go on to draw Disney comic books; especially the adventurous 'Mickey Mouse' stories from the 1950s-1970s.

1919 - Director and writer Norman Tokar is born in Newark, New Jersey. His work for Disney will include the live-action films The Apple Dumpling Gang, Snowball Express, Rascal, and The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit.

1933 - Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Giantland is released. (It is a forerunner to the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment of Fun and Fancy Free.)

1938 - Disney's Ferdinand the Bull is released. (It will win an Academy Award for Best Cartoon.)

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club Circus opens as the first major addition to Disneyland since its grand opening.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent Round-Up Day.

1962 - Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "The Magnificent Rebel."

1971 - "America the Beautiful," a CircleVision 360 film, debuts in Walt Disney World's Tomorrowland.

1973 - The Wonderful World of Disney features part 1 of "Run, Cougar, Run."

1992 - The 31st Disney animated feature film, Aladdin is generally released in U.S. theaters. It relates a version of the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. (The film's music will earn 2 Academy Awards and 6 Grammy Awards.)

1992 - The Toontown Railroad Station, located outside of Toontown next to the Fantasyland Theater, opens in Disneyland.

1996 - Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade comes to an end. (It is estimated that some 75 million people have marveled at the bright lights of the parade since its introduction in 1972.)

1998 - Disney's A Bug's Life is generally released. It is the second full-length computer-animated feature produced by the partnership of Disney and Pixar Studios. (The plot of the film is loosely based on Aesop's fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper.")

2002 - The Disneyland Resort officially kicks off its holiday season with a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony featuring the manager of the World Champion Anaheim Angels Mike Scioscia.

2003 - Walt Disney Records releases the CD "The Haunted Mansion Haunted Hits" (a soundtrack from and inspired by their newest feature film The Haunted Mansion).

2003 - Disneyland's annual Holiday Lighting Ceremony takes place in front of the Sleeping Beauty Castle.

2004 - Disney's Chicken Little (the star of next year's animated film Chicken Little) debuts in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. The giant helium balloon measures in at 60.5 feet tall, 26 feet wide and 68.5 feet long.

2005 - Epcot's Holidays Around the World 2005 kicks off for the season (running through December 30). The season's first Candlelight Processional also takes place with guest narrator actress Rita Moreno.

2005 - Disney Channel debuts "Save the Last Dance," the 75th episode of That's So Raven.

2006 - Italian cartoonist Luciano Bottaro, the highly prolific creator of numerous original series as well as a significant body of work with Disney Comics, passes away in Italy days after celebrating his 75th birthday. Besides his work with Disney characters, he created many characters such as Pepito, the comical adventures of a 17-century buccaneer.

2007 - Mickey and Minnie Mouse take part in the Hollywood Santa Parade (originally known as Hollywood Christmas Parade) in California.

2008 - Burning Up: On Tour with the JONAS Brothers book release and signing takes place at the Golden Vine Winery Patio inside Disney's California Adventure Park. Kevin, Joe, and Nick make an appearance to promote their very first book (published by Disney's Hyperion).

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