1913 - Evelyn Venable, the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo and the voice of the Blue Fairy in Disney's Pinocchio, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1926 - Disney's Alice Comedy Alice the Fire Fighter is released.

1927 - Actor George C. Scott, the voice of McLeach in Disney's 1990 film The Rescuers Down Under, is born in Wise, Virginia.

1935 - Actor Peter Boyle is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will portray Mr. Whittle in Disney's live-action The Santa Clause, and Father Time in both The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3. (TV fans will know him as Frank Barone on the comedy series Everybody Loves Raymond.)

1946 - Disney's animated educational film The Story of Menstruation is delivered to the International Cellu-Cotton Company. It will be a popular Disney film for schoolgirls for several decades.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Guest Star Day.

1964 - The World's Fair in Flushing, New York (which includes 4 Disney attractions) closes for its 1964 season. It will re-open the following spring for its final season.

1965 - Pixar character designer, writer and art director Ralph Eggleston is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He directed the Academy Award-winning short For the Birds, which premiered alongside Monsters Inc. - which he also co-wrote. Eggleston's credits include WALL-E, Finding Nemo (which earned him an Annie Award), and The Incredibles.

1967 - Disney's 19th animated feature film The Jungle Book has its general release. Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the jungle is the last animated feature personally supervised by Walt Disney (who passed away during the film's production). Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, the film features the voices of Phil Harris as Baloo, Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera, Louis Prima as King Louie, George Sanders as Shere Khan, Sterling Holloway as Kaa, Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli and Clint Howard as Junior. The song "Bare Necesseties," written by Terry Gilkyson, will be nominated for an Academy Award.

1971 - TIME magazine features an article on a newly opened theme park - "Disney World: Pixie Dust Over Florida".

1987 - Actor Zac Efron, the star of Disney Channel's 2006 High School Musical, and its sequels, is born in San Luis Obispo, California.

1990 - Imagineer Roger Broggie is among those honored at the Disney Legends Awards. Company Chairman Michael Eisner states, "Any mechanical things you had to do, what you said was, 'Call Roger, he'll know how to fix it.' Without him, Disneyland wouldn't have happened."

1995 - Final paving for the track at the new Walt Disney World Speedway takes place. Despite 1995 being the wettest June-July in Orlando on record (75 inches of rain), including Hurricane Erin, the construction has been completed on-time!

1997 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Sabrina The Teenage Witch: The Movie" on ABC-TV.

2001 - Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party premieres in Disney World for the first time this season.

2002 - The Disneyland Resort salutes the American League pennant-winning Anaheim Angels with a pep rally at Downtown Disney.

2003 - Epcot's 8th International Food and Wine Festival kicks off in Florida. The festival takes place around World Showcase and includes a month-long concert series called "Eat to the Beat!" Sister Sledge opens the series with three half-hour concerts daily (throught October 22) on the America Gardens Theatre stage.

2003 - Golf great Tiger Woods (a Florida resident) visits Walt Disney World and takes his turn on Epcot's Mission:SPACE.

2006 - The upcoming Disney World musical version of "Finding Nemo," receives a short preview presentation on the stage of Broadway's Palace Theatre in New York City. Finding Nemo - The Musical is the first major musical produced for the Walt Disney World Resort by Disney Creative Entertainment.

2007 - An annual holiday tradition kicks off at the El Capitan Theater with the re-release of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. The El Capitan offers a special opening-night filmmakers' panel with guests producer Don Hahn, feature producer Denise Di Novi, director Henry Selick and supervising animator Mike Belzer. Nightmare will open to theaters in Disney Digital 3-D the following day (and run through November 18).

2007 - The Best of Both Worlds Tour, a 54-date North American run starring Miley Cyrus as both herself and in character as Hannah Montana, kicks off in St. Louis, Missouri. Hollywood Records recording artists The Jonas Brothers also appear. (Tour tickets for each date have sold out in record time.)

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