1911 - Disney Legend & producer Bill Anderson is born in Smithfield, Utah. Credits during his 44 years with Disney will include the Disneyland and Zorro TV series, and such live-action features as The Barefoot Executive, The Apple Dumpling Gang, and The Shaggy D.A.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Anything Can Happen Day.

1955 - "The Adventures of Mickey Mouse" the 26th episode of Disneyland airs on ABC. Walt Disney discusses the career of Mickey Mouse and presents several cartoons.

1986 - The Golden Horseshoe Revue in Disneyland's Frontierland officially closes. The show, written by Wally Boag and Donald Novis, has been running since July 1955!

1995 - Walt Disney World welcomes its 500-millionth guest ... Michelle Davis!

1997 - INTERCOT - a Disney fan website - comes online. Within 4 years it will become one of the most frequented visited Disney World information sites on the web.

1997 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Honey We Shrunk Ourselves" featuring Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski.

1997 - Disney Channel debuts a new episode of Muppets Tonight with guest star Pierce Brosnan.

1998 - Disney's 75th anniversary Online Special Events presents an online chat with Virginia Davis.

2001 - Disney World's Fantasyland closes early to the general public for a special charity fundraising event. From 4pm to 11pm, a "Fantasyland Fun-A-Thon" to raise money for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women takes place.

2001 - The Lizzie McGuire episode "Facts of Life" debuts on Disney Channel. Drummer Rick Marotta appears as a special guest star.

2001 - The Disney Channel Original Movie Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, the first sequel to the Halloweentown series, debuts.

2003 - Disney's 10K Classic, a race throughout the World Showcase at Epcot, takes place. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the official race beneficiary. Florida native Matthew Dobson finishes first, beating out nearly 2,000 runners!

2006 - Disney CEO Robert Iger addresses the campus of Ithaca College (in Ithaca, New York). A 1973 graduate of Ithaca, Iger calls his years at the college formative and says his television-radio education and classes with Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone" and a former professor at the college, allowed him to appreciate the importance of creative freedom and independence.

2007 - A ceremony announcing the 2008 Walt Disney World Ambassadors is held at Animal Kingdom. T.C. Newman (from College & CareerStart Recruiting who began her Disney career in Disneyland Entertainment and has been at the Walt Disney World Resort since 2001) and Kerri MacPherson (from Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Sales who joined the Disney team 13 years ago through the College program at the Magic Kingdom's Outdoor Foods) are chosen.

2007 - Disney Channel premieres a new series called Wizards of Waverly Place with the episode "The Crazy Ten Minute Sale." The series focuses on the three Russo children who, on the surface, seem to be normal teens ... but are actually wizards in training. They are competing within their family to be the best wizard, as he or she will get to keep their powers as an adult.

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