1865 - British author & poet Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, India. His most popular work - the 1894 children's novel The Jungle Book, will be made into a Disney animated feature in 1967.

1890 - Raymond Arnold Disney (Walt's older brother and the second child born to Flora and Elias Disney) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1917 - Country singer/movie star Wesley Tuttle is born in Lamar, Colorado. He will yodel as Dopey in Disney's 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

1928 - Disney's The Gallopin Gaucho premieres at the Mark Strand Theater in New York City, with synchronized sound. Although it is the second Mickey Mouse film to be created, The Gallopin Gaucho (directed by Ub Iweks) is the third Mickey short to be released.

1937 - Donald Duck is published under his Italian name Paolino Paperino for the first time. Paolino Paperino e il mistero di Marte (later reprinted in the USA as The Mystery of Mars) by Federico Pedrocchi, is the first to feature Donald in an adventuring rather than a comedic role. It is also the first of many to portray Donald as a space traveler.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent Round-Up Day and Mouseketeer Paul Petersen's last episode.

1956 - Walt Disney appears on TV's The Ed Sullivan Show.

1980 - The longest-running series in prime-time television history, The Wonderful World of Disney, is canceled on NBC after more than 25 years on the air.

1980 - The Selective Service System, in the midst of reminding 18-year-olds to register for the draft, send a warning to Mickey Mouse at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The Selective Service says that Mickey is in violation of registration compliance.

1997 - As of this day, Disney holds eight of the top ten spots on the All Time Movie Video Sales Chart with The Lion King (1); Aladdin (2); Cinderella (3); Beauty and The Beast (4); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (5); Toy Story (7); 101 Dalmatians (8); and Pocahontas (10).

2001 - Animator Ray Patterson passes of natural causes at age 90 at his Encino, California home. His seven-decade career included Oscar-winning work for MGM, bringing Marvel Comics superheroes to television, and animation for Disney's Fantasia, Dumbo, and several Pluto shorts (such as Bone Trouble and Pluto's Playmate).

2003 - A Holiday Inn replaces the Courtyard by Marriott at Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney.

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