1905 - Character actor & comic cowboy sidekick Andy Devine, the voice of Friar Tuck in Disney's 1973 release Robin Hood, is born in Flagstaff, Arizona.

1918 - Disney Legend Norman "Stormy" Palmer, one of Walt Disney Studio's most celebrated film editors, is born in Santa Ana, California. He will join Disney as a projectionist in 1938, but soon transfer to the Editorial department where he will work on Pinocchio and Fantasia. Palmer will best be known for his contributions to Disney nature and animal films such as The Living Desert, Grand Canyon, and Water Birds.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Talent Round-Up Day with Mouseketeer Cubby bring his father Hack and brother Warren onstage for a drum set trio!

1962 - The NBC-TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color airs part 2 of "Escapade in Florence."

1967 - Singer/songwriter and actress Toni Braxton - who has appeared in the Disney Broadway shows Beauty and the Beast (as Belle) in 1998 and Aida (as Aida) in 2003 - is born in Severn, Maryland. Her role in Beauty and the Beast marked the first (and only) time an African American has played the leading role of Belle on Broadway.

1971 - The Disney animated and live-action feature film, Bedknobs and Broomsticks premieres in London, England. (It will be released in the U.S. two months later.)

1981 - The live-action Disney film The Watcher in the Woods (starring Bette Davis) is released.

1983 - Never Cry Wolf, a drama film adaption of the Farley Mowat autobiographical book of the same name, is released by Walt Disney Pictures.

1990 - Legendary animator Myron "Grim" Natwick passes in Los Angeles, California, at age 100. Best known as the creator of the animated character Betty Boop, he also worked on Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

1998 - Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, housed in the space formerly occupied by Take Flight, has a soft opening at Walt Disney World. Presented by Mattel, it is the first interactive dark ride at the Magic Kingdom.

1998 - Disney's Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida opens at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. (In 1999 the title of the musical will be shortened to Aida.)

2000 - Former Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump appears at a special Ryman-Carroll Foundation tribute event at the Disneyland Resort. (Crump began his career in the late 1950s at the Disney Studios in animation, where he worked on Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians, before moving to Walt Disney Imagineering. During his Imagineering career, Rolly worked on early concepts for the Haunted Mansion, as well as the development of various tiki gods and goddesses for The Enchanted Tiki Room.)

2001 - Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through attraction (opened since April 1957) closes for refurbishment. (Over time, Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through will drop off the refurbishment list ... and never reopen.)

2002 - A Bug's Land opens inside Disney's California Adventure (although part of the land has been in operation since 2001). Designed especially for younger kids, the area (inspired by the Disney/Pixar movie) features such attraction as Flik's Flyers and Tuck and Roll's Drive'Em Buggies.

2002 - The Travel Channel airs Great Hotels - Disney's Wilderness Lodge for the first time.

2003 - Disney's The Lion King is released on a 2-disc DVD set. It includes a new animated song (written by Elton John & Tim Rice) and sequence. This is the first time Disney has added a newly animated scene specifically for a DVD.

2004 - It is announced that Andrae Rivas and Rebecca Phelps have been chosen to be the 2005 Disneyland Resort Ambassadors.

2005 - One week after leaving The Walt Disney Company, Michael Eisner hosts The Charlie Rose Show. His guests are actor John Travolta and his ex-boss-turned-rival, television executive Barry Diller.

2006 - A female giraffe is born at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The calf is the first offspring for her mother, a 9-year-old giraffe named Aibuin.

2008 - The world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures' Morning Light takes place at the El Captian Theatre in Hollywood. The true-life documentary (conceived and co-produced by Roy E. Disney) opens in theaters October 17, 2008.

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