1909 - Disney Legend and animator Milt Kahl is born in San Francisco, California. One of Walt's "Nine Old Men," Kahl will first join the Walt Disney Studios at age 25. Over the next 42 years he will help bring to life such classics as Pinocchio, Bambi, Song of the South, Alice In Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, Robin Hood, and The Rescuers.

1912 - Actor Wilfrid Brambell, who portrays Willie Bannock in Disney's 1964 The Three Lives of Thomasina and Bill Gaye in Disney's 1962 In Search of the Castaways, is born in Dublin, Ireland. (Beatle fans know him best as "Paul's grandfather" in A Hard Day's Night.)

1935 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Golden Touch (directed by Walt Disney) is released.

1970 - The Wonderful World of Disney presents "Disneyland Showtime," featuring The Osmond Brothers, Kurt Russell, Kids of the Kingdom, The Sound Castle, and The Dapper Dans. The new Haunted Mansion attraction (opened since August 1969) is the setting for this TV overview of the park's musical attractions.

1975 - The Lake Buena Vista Village, an area of shops along the shores of Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney World, officially opens. It provides the first non-park shopping at Disney World and is promoted as a "restful shopping atmosphere similar to a New England seaside village." (It will be renamed Walt Disney World Village before being re-christened as the more familiar Disney Village Marketplace.)

1987 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs the 1971 Disney feature "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."

1998 - In Anaheim, California, the Grand Hotel, located just east of Harbor Blvd on Freedman Way, is imploded at 6:45 a.m. by Controlled Demolition, Incorporated in a blast that lasts just over twenty seconds. A crowd of about 200 spectators watch from the Santa Ana freeway's Freedman Way off ramp. Other spectators observe the building's destruction from their rooms in the Disneyland and Disneyland Pacific Hotels, and even atop the Matterhorn. The metal components of the building will be recycled, and the concrete will be pulverized on-site to form the base of the new Disneyland parking area.

1999 - Elton John appears on TV's The Tonight Show, promoting Disney's Broadway show Aida, for which he has written the music.

2005 - Disney's On The Record - a touring muscial revue - begins a series of performances in Indianpolis, Indiana.

2005 - The Kim Possible Soundtrack, Disney's Karaoke Series: Kim Possible, Radio Disney Jams 7, and Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Album are all released on Walt Disney Records.

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