1917 - Versatile voice actress June Foray (famously known as the voice of Rocket J. "Rocky" Squirrel on the animated The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her Disney credits include the sounds of Lucifer the cat in Cinderella, the voice of Hazel the Witch in the 1952 short Trick or Treat, and Peter Pan - for which she played a live-action mermaid to serve as a reference for the animators. She also supplies the voices of Grandmother Fa in Mulan II and Grammi in the animated TV series The Gummi Bears. Foray can be heard in the Disney park attraction Pirates of the Caribbean - as the wife of the man getting dunked!

1925 - The Apollo Theater in Los Angeles premieres Disney's Alice Comedy film Alice Plays Cupid.

1928 - Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse" trademark application is granted.

1939 - Actor and master of sketch comedy Fred Willard, the voice of Melvin in the 2005 animated feature Chicken Little, is born in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

1957 - The Disneyland television series airs episode 75 - "Four Fabulous Characters."

1973 - Actor James Marsden is born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He appears as Prince Edward in Disney's 2007 feature Enchanted. (He is perhaps best known for playing Cyclops in the X-Men films.)

1982 - Ron Schneider (who has been appearing in the Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland) arrives in Orlando, Florida to prepare fo his newest role. He has been hired to play a wizard named Dreamfinder for Epcot's Journey Into Imagination pavilion, which will debut with the new theme park on October 1. (The actual attraction Journey Into Imagination With Figment won't open until March 1983.)

1998 - Secrets of the Animal Kingdom, a syndicated half-hour television series, first airs. Taped at Disney's Animal Kingdom, it is the first series produced by Walt Disney Attractions Television.

2000 - Production begins on Disney's newest live-action film The Princess Diaries in San Francisco.

2001 - The touring production of Disney's Aida opens at the Austin Performing Arts Center located at the University of Texas. (The show will run through the 23rd.)

2004 - Marceline, Missouri (boyhood home of Walt Disney) hosts their sixth annual Toonfest celebration.

2005 - Actress Brooke Tansley offers her final performance as Belle in Disney's Broadway hit Beauty and the Beast. The 14th actress to play Belle on Broadway, Tansley has performed the role since September 14, 2004.

2005 - Disney Channel premieres Life with Derek, a new half hour comedy series featuring Michael Seater as Derek Venturi. The series revolves around George Venturi (a divorced man who has custody of his two sons Derek & Edwin and daughter Marti) who marries a divorced woman named Nora (who has two daughters, Casey and Lizzie).

2006 - Starting this day, Disney Channel expands its weekly Mickey Mouse Clubhouse series to a daily format.

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