1932 - The Mickey Mouse short The Duck Hunt is released.

1939 - Imagineer and Disney Legend Ralph Kent is born in New York. In 1965, he will design the first limited-edition Mickey Mouse watch for adults and starting in 1971 design souvenirs for Walt Disney World.

1942 - Walt Disney presents to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard an emblem designed for use on labels and markings of containers to identify anywhere in the world the food they hold. The Lend Lease insignia - created by Disney artist Hank Porter in December 1941 - features the United States Eagle (suggested by Roy Disney) protecting a cargo ship from an Axis bomber. Also included are four stars symbolizing the four freedoms pledged in the Atlantic Charter - freedom of speech and expression, freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

1946 - The Disney film The Three Caballeros is nominated for two Academy Awards. This animated feature, starring Donald Duck, was released February 3, 1945.

1962 - The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "Sancho, the Homing Steer," about a Texas longhorn that sneaks away from a cattle drive to find his way home again, traveling 1,200 miles in a year.

1965 - Disney's live-action feature film Those Calloways, starring Norman Tokar, Brian Keith, Vera Miles, and Ed Wynn is generally released.

1968 - Twilight Zone creator and alumni Rod Serling delivers a commencement speech to January graduates at Binghamton Central High School in New York.

1977 - Singer, actor, and television personality Joey Fatone is born Joseph Anthony Fatone, Jr. in Brooklyn, New York. Best known as a member of the American pop group, 'N Sync, Fatone has done voice work for Disney's Kim Possible. He also appears in the 2007 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade and an episode of Hannah Montana.

1978 - At the Golden Globe Awards, Best Original Score - Motion Picture goes to John Williams for his Star Wars music, beating out Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn nominated for Disney's Pete's Dragon.

1979 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs part 1 of "Shadow of Fear."

1980 - The Industrial Bank of Japan announces it and nearly 30 other Japanese banks have agreed to lend money to the Oriental Land Company to build a $300-million Disney theme park in Tokyo.

1982 - Wally Boag (the original Pecos Bill) gives his last performance at the Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland. He has done the show almost continuously since its opening in 1955, thus putting him in the Guiness Book of Records for the most number of performances of a show!

1988 - Groundbreaking for the Dolphin Hotel and Swan Hotel complex begins in Disney World. Michael Graves of Princeton, New Jersey is the master architect behind these unique structures.

1989 - At the Golden Globe Awards, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is edged out by Working Girl for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical. Although nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, Bob Hoskins (from Who Framed Roger Rabbit) is beat out by Tom Hanks (for his performance in Big).

1990 - At Super Bowl XXIV (in New Orleans) quarterback Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers shouts "I'm going to Disney World!" after his team defeats the Denver Broncos, 55–10. It is the second year in a row that Montana appears in the Disney ad.

1996 - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Emmitt Smith declares "I'm going to Disneyland!" following his team's 27-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers at Super Bowl XXX (played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona).

1997 - Tragedy strikes when Bub Thomas, a fixture on Main Street for over 25 years singing and joking with Disney World's Dapper Dans (a barbershop quartet), is killed in a car accident in Orlando, Florida. He is 85.

1999 - Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal-based touring circus that combines acrobatics, theatrics, special effects and original music, officially opens its third permanent U.S. facility at Downtown Disney's West End in Florida.

2001 - At Super Bowl XXXV (played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida) Baltimore Ravens quarterback Trent Dilfer exclaims "I'm going to Disney World!" after his team defeats the New York Giants, 34–7.

2005 - Aliens of the Deep, a Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media Presentation, is released to large format/IMAX theaters. The documentary, about a team of oceanographers and NASA scientists who investigate ten hydrothermal vents in both the Atlantic and Pacific, is directed by James Cameron.

2007 - Actor Jacob Young (who recently appeared as Lumiere in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast) hosts an exclusive event and raffle at World of Disney's 5th Avenue Flagship Store in Manhattan, New York. A raffle of rare and unique Disney items include signed posters from the Broadway companies of Disney's Tarzan and Mary Poppins. The event helps to raise awareness and funds to support the Sunday, February 25 "ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS" concert at Town Hall in New York City. (The Emmy Award-winning Young is best known to fans of All My Children as JR Chandler.)

2009 - At Epcot, the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure debuts. A treasure hunt with high-tech spy gadgetry, the interactive game is based on the Disney animated TV series Kim Possible. Using a hand-held "Kimmunicator" device, Epcot visitors receive clues and trigger hidden surprises on a series of missions in seven World Showcase pavilions: Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Japan, France and the United Kingdom.

2009 - An 80-foot-tall hot air balloon, shaped like Epcot's Spaceship Earth, floats above the Magic Kingdom, carrying the Birkett family, of Scottsdale, Arizona. The special flight was one of the dreams awarded as part of Disney Parks' 2008 "Disney Dreams Giveaway" (which ended December 31). Last September 17, Christian Birkett was chosen at random as the dream recipient while riding The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at Disneyland Park in California. In addition to the tethered balloon flight, Birkett's dream includes this VIP vacation to Walt Disney World!

2009 - At Disneyland the five Disneyland Railroad trains that circle a one-mile perimeter of the park begin running on cleaner burning biodiesel ... made with recycled discarded cooking oil (originating from the resort's restaurants and hotels).

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