1837 - Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth United States President, is born in Caldwell, New Jersey Visit him and all the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World's The Hall of Presidents.

1858 - Kepple Disney marries Mary Richardson. The following year, they will have a child named Elias (the future father of Walt Disney).

1933 - The Disney film Mickey's Mellerdrammer, directed by Wilfred Jackson, is released. In this cartoon, Mickey and his friends put on a production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

1954 - Disney animator Ward Kimball appears as a contestant on Groucho Marx's television quiz show You Bet Your Life.

1955 - A ground breaking ceremony takes place at 11:15 a.m. in Anaheim, California for the Disneyland Hotel. Among the guests in attendance are Roy Disney (Walt's brother), C. V. Wood (Disneyland's vice-president & general manager), Anaheim's Mayor Charles Pearson, and members of the Wrather family (owners of the Disneyland Hotel).

1960 - The ABC-TV series Walt Disney Presents airs "El***o Baca: Friendly Enemies at Law." It is the 9th episode of the 10-part mini-series starring Robert Loggia.

1962 - The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "The Prince and the Pauper."

1967 - The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction opens in New Orleans Square at Disneyland, California. The debut kicks off with great excitement, as a group of marauding sea-dogs, led by Wally Boag, first shanghai the sailing ship Columbia before bursting through the new attractions' doors with a battering ram! All the figures in the attraction are designed by Imagineer Marc Davis and the lavishly detailed sets are by artist & color stylist Claude Coats. (It is the largest audio-animatronic project to date and the last attraction Walt Disney himself worked on extensively before his death.)

1979 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs the 2-hour "The Omega Connection."

1985 - The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) announces plans to merge with Capital Cities Communications to form Cap Cities/ABC. The $3.5 billion merger is the 11th largest corporate merger in U.S. history. (A decade and a few months later, the Walt Disney Company will announce that it has reached an agreement to merge with Cap Cities/ABC to form the largest entertainment and television production conglomerate in the world in a deal worth more than 19 billion dollars.)

1989 - At Disneyland, 150 visitors are stranded 40 feet in the air in cable cars. The skyway cable cars come to a stop after someone in one of the four-passenger gondolas began rocking the car vigorously! Firefighters from the Anaheim, Orange County and Garden Grove Fire Departments assist in the rescue - which results in no injuries.

2000 - The Disney Channel airs the original movie Alley Cats Strike!

2001 - The world's first-ever digitally transmitted and projected feature film premiere, of Dimension Films' Spy Kids, takes place at Disney's California Adventure as part of a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Children's Diabetes Center at UCLA. Boeing Satellite System, a unit of The Boeing Company, hosts the event and uses its Boeing digital cinema system to deliver Spy Kids to the park's Hyperion Theater. (Boeing digital cinema is a network system that digitally transmits first-run films directly to movie theatres via satellite-based and fiber-optic networks.) Prior to the premiere, park visitors are treated to a parade up Main Street, featuring several of the stars of Spy Kids.

2001 - "Travel Channel Secrets: Inside Disneyland Paris" airs for the first time in the U.S.

2001 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs the television movie "Bailey's Mistake" starring Linda Hamilton.

2003 - Disney Records releases the soundtrack from Piglet's Big Movie, featuring music by Carly Simon.

2003 - Good Day Live on FOX-TV features a segment on the newly renovated King Arthur's Carrousel in Disneyland.

2003 - Imagineering legend Orlando Ferrante receives a Window on Disneyland's Main Street.

2005 - Walt Disney World hosts the 2005 Doll & Teddy Bear Weekend at Epcot.

2005 - Disney's feature film Ice Princess opens in theaters. Starring Michelle Trachtenberg as a teen who dreams of being a champion ice skater, it features the Aly & AJ song "No One."

2005 - The Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, starring identical twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse, premieres with two episodes - "Hotel Hangout" and "The Fairest of Them All."

2006 - The Disneyland Resort picks up 2 Thea Awards (presented by TEA - a worldwide nonprofit association representing the creators of compelling places and experiences) at a ceremony at the Disneyland Hotel.

2007 - The Pirates of the Caribbean 40th Anniversary Product Release & Signing takes place at the Disney Gallery in New Orleans Square, Disneyland. Also, the trailer for Pirates 3: At World's End premieres at Pirates Ultimate Fan Events across the country.

2009 - The 16th annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival kicks off for 75 days.

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