1916 - Artist Lou Debney is born. At age 17 he will join the Disney Studio and begin his career in the Cutting Department. Debney will soon become assistant director on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and work on most of the sequences directed by Ben Sharpsteen. His Disney credits will also include all of the Goofy shorts (between 1939-1943), producer of The Mickey Mouse Club and Zorro, and production coordinator on The Wonderful World of Color. (Lou Debney is the father of award-winning composer John Debney - known to Disney fans for his work on such features as Hocus Pocus and Chicken Little.)

1918 - Maxine Andrews, one-third of the popular singing trio The Andrews Sisters, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Aside from frequently playing themselves in movies, the sisters sold over 60 million records and lent their singing voices to Disney's Make Mine Music (1946) and Melody Time (1948).

1965 - Disneyland observes its tenth anniversary with a Tencennial parade.

1965 - Walt Disney introduces a host of coming attractions to Disneyland on TV's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. He is joined in this episode by Julie Reihm, the first Disneyland Ambassador - who he refers to as Miss Disneyland.

1989 - Actor Alex D. Linz, the star of Max Keeble's Big Move, is born in Santa Barbara, California. His Disney credits also include the voice of Young Tarzan in the 1999 animated Tarzan.

1994 - At EPCOT, The Kitchen Kabaret Revue, better known as simply Kitchen Kabaret, an Audio-Animatronics theatrical presentation about nutrition, closes. An original attraction in The Land pavilion, it will later re-open as Food Rocks (and ultimately Soarin'.)

2001 - Ken Goldstein, executive vice president and managing director of Disney Online, announces that executives Dan Sherlock and Jodie Resnick have been named vice president of marketing and president of entertainment.

2004 - NASA's Spirit rover lands on Mars. Administrator Sean O'Keefe sums up the amazing feat with the simple phrase: "We're back ... and we're on Mars." (That quote, along with a replica of the twin robot geologists roving Mars, will later be enshrined outside the Mission:SPACE attraction at Epcot.)

2005 - It is reported that a London Lorry driver named Nick Pain has named his newborn son Disney.

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