1924 - Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company merge to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ... or MGM.

1931 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Mother Goose Melodies, directed by Burt Gillett, is first released. (Mother Goose is the name given to an archetypical country woman, who is supposedly the originator of the Mother Goose stories and rhymes. Yet no specific writer has ever been identified with such a name!)

1958 - Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World's Fair, opens. It is the first major World's Fair following World War II. Featured at the Fair is the first Disneyland-style attraction to ever live outside the Magic Kingdom ... America the Beautiful, a live-action Disney film in Circarama. (The film will open at Disneyland 2 years later.)

1961 - At the 33rd Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Bob Hope, an Oscar (Documentary, Feature) is won for the Disney film The Horse with the Flying Tail. Actress Hayley Mills wins an Oscar (Honorary Award) for most outstanding juvenile performance of 1960 for her performance in Disney's live-action Pollyanna. Although Disney's Islands of the Sea is nominated for Short Subjects, Live Action ... it is edged out by Day of the Painter.

1964 - Disney's "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" exhibit is flown from California to New York for the upcoming World's Fair. Unfortunately once in New York, the truck delivering the exhibit to the Illinois Pavilion is caught in heavy traffic around the Flushing Meadows area of Queens (one of the 5 boroughs of New York City). The cause of traffic ... Shea Stadium - a new ballpark and home to the New York Mets - is hosting their official opening day! The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Mets 4-3 and Lincoln never makes it to the fair.

1973 - An amazing 73,168 guests visit Walt Disney World on this day!

1980 - The Watcher in the Woods, a horror film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, first premieres. The film, about a teenage girl and her little sister who become encompassed in a supernatural mystery regarding a missing girl in the woods surrounding their new home, stars Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Lynn-Holly Johnson, and Kyle Richards.

1994 - Thirty-year-old Randle Charles "falls" about 20 feet from one of the Skyway cabins in Disneyland. He lands in a tree near the Alice in Wonderland attraction. Charles is helped out of the tree by paramedics and taken to nearby Western Medical Center, where he is treated for minor injuries and released. (Charles will later file a $25,000 negligence lawsuit against Disney, claiming that he had suffered permanent neck and back injuries as a result of his fall. The lawsuit will be dismissed just before it is to go to trial in September 1996, when it is discovered Charles indeed jumped from the cabin.)

1997 - Gibson Guitars holds a demonstration at Disney World's Pleasure Island. Guitarists have the opportunity to see new models and check out a display of classic guitars.

1998 - Walt Disney Records/Pony Canyon releases the theme park album Disney Carnivale in honor of Tokyo Disneyland's 15th anniversary.

2004 - Aida co-stars Deborah Cox and Will Chase perform live on CBS-TVs "Saturday Early Show."

2006 - Two of the stars of Disney/Pixar's new computer-animated feature Cars race straight off the movie screen and into the real world as actual life-sized models for a 40 plus city promotional tour. Disney/Pixar's "CARS Road Trip 06" presented by State Farm kicks off this day in Akron, Ohio. (The movie will premiere May 26.)

2008 - Disney announces a new mobile Web site and texting program. Developed in conjunction with mDisney, part of the Walt Disney Internet Group, the new mobile site allows users with Web-enabled phones to receive Radio Disney information, listen to Radio Disney, view the last 10 songs played on the Radio Disney station, send shout-outs, request songs and take polls.

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