1935 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Three Orphan Kittens, directed by David Hand, is released. (This short will win an Academy Award for Best Cartoon.)

1945 - Disney's Cured Duck - featuring Donald Duck - is released.

1949 - A letter from Disney marketing genius Kay Kamen (mailed from Paris and postmarked October 26) is received by Ruth Ivener, vice-president of Kay Kamen Ltd., in New York. The letter contains a flurry of business details and jokes about Kamen's fear of flying. Tragically, at age 56, Kay Kamen and his beloved wife, Katie, will die the next day in an Air France crash over the Azores (a group of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean).

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

1955 - The Disneyland television series airs episode 28: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The first half features the story of writer Washington Irving followed by Disney's version of his classic tale.

1986 - Donald Duck is shown for the first time in the People's Republic of China. Chinese television launches a weekly half-hour of old Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse cartoons.

1997 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad airs on The Disney Channel .... 4 days after it has been announced that Disney World is going to close the classic Mr. Toad attraction in Fantasyland.

1997 - ABC-TV's The Wonderful World of Disney airs the movie Tower of Terror for the first time. Starring Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst, it is an early attempt at turning a theme park attraction into a movie.

1997 - A touring exhibition of design art (from the Walt Disney Imagineering archives) called Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance is displayed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

2000 - Disneyland presents a special nighttime event called Disney Villain Diva's Enchanted Evening.

2001 - It is announced that The Walt Disney Company (which pulled its TV advertising September 11) has begun an aggressive new marketing and publicity campaign to court vacationers. The company is spending tens of millions of dollars advertising on television.

2001 - The Orlando Business Journal announces that Walt Disney World guests will start to receive a daily copy of USA Today in their hotel rooms instead of the Orlando Sentinel.

2004 - Walt Disney Records releases Christy Carlson Romano: Her Greatest Disney Hits - featuring the new single "Dive In" written by Christian music singer Cindy Morgan.

2007 - Disney Channel debuts "I Almost Drowned in a Chocolate Fountain," the third episode of Wizards of Waverly Place.

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