1904 - Actor-comedian-singer & composer Jerry Colona, the voice of March Hare in Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland, is born Gerardo Luigi Colonna in Boston, Massachusetts. Remembered best as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks on Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s, Colona also lent his voice to Disney's 1950 The Brave Engineer (as the narrator) and the 1946 Make Mine Music (narrating the Casey At Bat segment).

1917 - Disney Legend & camera effects artist Bob Broughton is born Berkeley, California. He will work on nearly every motion picture from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 to The Black Hole in 1979. Broughton will help Dick Van Dyke dance with animated penguins in Mary Poppins by using Color Traveling Matte Composite Cinematography, an award-winning technology that combines live-action and animated actors.

1927 - Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Rickety Gin is shipped to New York distributor M. Winkler.

1928 - Actor Roddy McDowall, the voice of Mr. Soil in the 1998 A Bug's Life, is born in London, England. His Disney credits also include the 1965 live-action That Darn Cat!, the 1967 live-action feature The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, and the 1979 live-action The Black Hole (as the voice of V.I.N.CENT). (Sci-fi fans know McDowall best from the Planet of the Apes series of films.)

1932 - Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Whoopee Party is released.

1945 - Actor Bruce Spence, the voice of Chum in the 2003 Finding Nemo, is born in Auckland, New Zealand.

1948 - Actor John Ritter (best known for his role as Jack Tripper on the TV series Three's Company) is born in Burbank, California. He appears in the 1971 Disney live-action film The Barefoot Executive, the 1989 TV special The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening and the 2002 TV special Walt Disney World Christmas Parade.

1957 - Sterling Holloway (the future voice of Winnie the Pooh) signs his first contract with the Walt Disney Music Company. The agreement ensures him star status on all recordings (unlike many of his contemporaries who perform uncredited).

1961 - The ABC-TV series Walt Disney Presents airs for the last time. The following week the series will be called Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color ... and air on NBC.

1991 - Disney's pop group The Party releases their second album In The Meantime, In Between Time on Hollywood Records. The group consists of Disney Channel Mouseketeers.

1995 - A Golden Horsehose Revue Reunion takes place at the Wells Fargo Theater in California. Performers Wally Boag, Fulton Burley, and Betty Taylor (who all starred in the popular Disneyland stage show) appear.

1998 - The world premiere preview of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions' musical Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida takes place at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. (Opening night will be October 7, 1998.)

2002 - Walt Disney Records' Disneymania, featuring classic Disney songs performed by acts like 'N SYNC, Usher, Aaron Carter, Hilary Duff, and Christina Aguilera, is released in the U.S.

2002 - Disney also releases its 2001 blockbuster Monsters, Inc., on a 2-disc special edition DVD and VHS. It features an all-new animated short Mike's New Car, created exclusively for this release.

2005 - A tribute to and a celebration of Pixar's Joe Ranft (who passed away August 16) is held for a few hundred guests at the Emeryville studio.
"This is a big loss for us here at Pixar. But we're here to celebrate Joe, his life, his creativity, his heart. The impact he made goes way beyond the credits of the films he's worked on." -John Lasseter
"Joe was the Dean Martin to John Lasseter's Frank Sinatra in the Pixar Rat Pack." -actress Bonnie Hunt

2006 - Kevin Broady, 44, of Brea, California, posts a time of 1:11:31 to lead the field of more than 9,700 participants en route to victory in the inaugural Disneyland Half Marathon in Anaheim. Broady, a former Disneyland Cast Member, finishes just a minute and a half over Benjamin Gomez Gutierrez, 30, of Jalostotitlan, Mexico, who finishes second with 1:13:04!

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