1904 - Science fiction writer Alexander H. Key is born in La Plata, Maryland. His novel Escape to Witch Mountain will be the inspiration for the Disney 1975 live-action film.

1909 - Ruth Patricia Shellhorn is born in Los Angeles, California. By 1955 she will be a lanscape architect working in South Pasadena. Three months before the opening of Disneyland, Walt will ask her to contribute her talents to his new theme park. She will serve as liaison between the Disney Studios and the hired designers and will be responsible for Town Square, Main Street, the Plaza, and eventually other areas of the park including Frontierland.

1945 - The Disney short Hockey Homicide premieres.

1947 - Walt Disney appears on a live radio broadcast of The Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Show. Walt promotes his newest picture, Fun and Fancy Free (which features Bergen as himself).

1951 - Disney's Pluto cartoon Cold Turkey is released.

1994 - Apple Computer begins sponsorship of EPCOT's Innoventions East.

1996 - IllumiNations 25 - a new show to celebrate Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary - debuts at Epcot (although it will have an official debut in October).

1998 - Infoseek and Walt Disney announce that their Internet portal site will be called GO NETWORK. The companies expect to launch it before December. (A portal site is an all-purpose Web page from which users can get onto the Internet as well as take advantage of functions such as e-mail and chat groups.)

2001 - Marceline, Missouri, the small mid-western town that Walt Disney used as his model for Main Street USA hosts his 100th birthday celebration starting today through the 23rd.

2001 - A spokesman confirms that the Bass family of Texas has sold a sizeable chunk, 135 million shares, of their stake in the Walt Disney Company. The sale generates about $2 billion at about $15 a share.

2001 - 650 Walt Disney World volunteer Cast Members do their part in support of a multi-network two-hour TV broadcast to benefit victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Disney World reservations phone system is used as part of the network to take calls of people wanting to donate money. More than 40,000 calls are received by Disney staffers alone, helping contribute to the 150 million dollars collected.

2001 - The Proud Family, an animated sitcom, premieres on Disney Channel as does the Lizzie McGuire episode "The Untitled Stan Jansen Project".

2002 - The city of Marceline, Missouri hosts the fourth annual Walt Disney's Hometown Toonfest.

2004 - AOL Music First View hosts the online premiere of Clay Aiken's "Proud Of Your Boy" music video. The song was originally composed for Aladdin and was recovered from the Disney vault for the film's 2-disc special edition DVD (to be released October 5).

2004 - Hollywood Records releases This Is My Time, the third album by singer/actress Raven-Symoné (of Disney Channel's That's So Raven).

2007 - Disney Channel debuts the Hannah Montana episode "Don't Stop Til You Get The Phone."

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