1923 - Walt Disney receives a telegram from New York cartoon distributor Margaret Winkler stating that she has received his Alice Comedy Alice's Day at Sea.

1927 - Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short Rickety Gin is released.

1932 - Newsman Dave MacPherson is born in Ithaca, New York. In July 1955 he will make Disneyland history when he becomes the first paying customer to enter the Anaheim park!

1938 - Lux Radio Theater with the cooperation of Walt Disney Productions presents an adaptation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The show is presented live from the Music Box Theatre in Hollywood, California. Walt himself is interviewed twice during the hour-long radio presentation.

1953 - Disney's animated Peter Pan is released in Denmark and Norway.

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

1956 - ABC-TV's Disneyland series airs the episode "Searching for Nature's Mysteries."

1995 - Disney's TV pilot "Family Values" airs.

2001 - Julie Andrews (of Disney's Mary Poppins fame) and other actors are hailed on CBS-TV's "The Kennedy Center Honors."

2001 - Sir Nigel Hawthorne, the voice of Professor Porter in Disney's Tarzan, dies at age 72 after battling cancer for a year-and-a-half.

2002 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush & his parents, former President George Bush & former first lady Barbara Bush, board the Disney Wonder for a 3-night cruise.

2003 - USC and Michigan (who will play the Rose Bowl on January 1) make their first official pre-Rose Bowl appearance in Disney's California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort.

2005 - Toy Story 2: Special Edition, a 2-disc DVD package, is released.

2005 - Character actor Vincent Schiavelli passes away in Sicily, Italy. During his career he made over 120 film and television appearances including the 1995 remake of Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain. (You may recognize him from such feature films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Amadeus, and Ghost.)

2006 - Deborah Lew and Stephen R. Buntrock become Broadway's newest Belle and Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

2006 - Mickey Mouse, the Disneyland Band and fans welcome the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan football teams for a pre-Rose Bowl salute at Disneyland. The Trojans (10-2 overall) and the Wolverines (11-1 overall) will meet in the 93rd Rose Bowl game played in Pasadena on New Year's Day.

2007 - Disneyland welcomes 2008 Rose Bowl contenders Illinois and Southern California football teams for a special celebration.

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