1910 - Original Mouseketeer MC & 1992 Disney Legend Jimmie Dodd, the adult leader on television's Mickey Mouse Club, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A talented guitarist and musician, Dodd was originally hired by Walt Disney as a music writer. He went on to write and compose "The Mickey Mouse Club March" and all the daily opening songs for the show.

1929 - Disney's Mickey Mouse short The Opry House is released. It is the first time Mickey is seen wearing his trademark white gloves!

1936 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Elmer Elephant is released. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, the short tells the story of a timid elephant who saves Tillie (a tiger he has a crush on) from a fire.

1941 - The Disney short A Gentleman's Gentleman featuring Pluto is released.

1953 - Disney releases the animated Goofy short Father's Day Off.

1958 - The Disneyland Railroad's newest engine; the Fred S. Gurley Engine No. 3, is commissioned into service. Built in 1894 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, it is named for 1958 Santa Fe Railroad President Fred Gurley. Originally in service since 1895 (it had been used to haul sugar cane on a New Orleans plantation), it is the oldest of any of the engines in the Disney Parks.

1978 - Disney World is visited by 85,123 guests on this day!

1987 - The very first Disney Store opens - in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, California. It is Disney's first retail store outside of a theme park or resort.

1991 - Actress Amy Bruckner - best known to Disney Channel fans as comical sister Pim Diffy on the series Phil of the Future - is born in Conifer, Colorado. She has also lent her voice to episodes of American Dragon: Jake Long.

1997 - The Atlanta Braves put Disney's Wide World of Sports into motion when their exhibition game with the Cincinnati Reds launches competitive play at the brand new sports complex in Florida.

1998 - In Florida, animator Marc Davis (one of Walt's "Nine Old Men") adds his signature and handprints in cement in front of the Mann's Chinese Theater replica at the Disney-MGM Studios.

1999 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs the movie "Balloon Farm." Rip Torn plays Harvey H. Potter, a friendly newcomer to a drought-ravaged farm town, who surprises everyone by growing an amazing crop of brilliantly colored balloons in his field.

2000 - Disneyland officials lift the ban on park employees wearing mustaches - an edict that had been put into effect in 1957 by Walt Disney himself!

2003 - Wetzel's Pretzels opens a store and kiosk in the Downtown Disney area of Walt Disney World.

2003 - A Disneyland Resort Pin Trading Night is held in the Pacific Ballroom at the Paradise Pier Hotel in Anaheim.

2003 - Disney Channel premieres the That's So Raven episode "Ye Old Dating Game."

2004 - Three-time Emmy-winning, two-time Oscar winning actor, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Grammy-winning narrator, published playwright, novelist and short-story writer Peter Ustinov passes at age 82 in Genolier, Switzerland. He starred in Disney's 1968 live-action feature Blackbeard's Ghost as Captain Blackbeard and was the voice of Prince John and King Richard in Disney's 1973 animated feature Robin Hood.

2008 - Hong Kong Disneyland announces the countdown to the launch of the "It's a Small World" attraction, scheduled to open April 28, 2008. The attraction will feature over 200 hundred Audio-Animatronics figures representing children from around the world (dressed in their national costumes), landmarks from numerous countries and, for the first time ever, 38 Disney characters.

2008 - A circuit breaker trips at Disney's Epcot Center, causing parts of the park to lose power and some rides to close down temporarily.

2009 - High School Musical 3: Senior Year wins Favorite Movie at Nickelodeon's 22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards held in California. Among the Disney winners are High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens for Favorite Actress, Jonas Brothers for Favorite Group, Miley Cyrus for Favorite Female Singer, and Selena Gomez (from Wizards of Waverly Place) for Favorite TV Actress.

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