1903 - Ary Barroso, Brazil's most successful songwriter in the first half of the 20th century, is born in Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Barroso's two best-known compositions are the sambas "Aquarela do Brasil" (better known as "Brazil"), written in 1939, and "Na Baixa do Sapateiro" (also known as simply "Bahia"), composed a year earlier. In August 1941, Walt Disney will meet Barroso at a cocktail party given by the U.S. consulate at the hotel Glória in Rio de Janeiro. Walt will later feature "Brazil" in his 1942 animated Saludos Amigos and "Bahia" in the 1944 sequel The Three Caballeros.

1947 - Actor Walter Fenner, Walt Disney's double in the 1944 Once Upon a Time (starring Cary Grant), passes away in Los Angeles, California.

1953 - This week's issue of Saturday Evening Post features part 2 of the article "The Amazing Story of Walt Disney" by Jack Alexander.

1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC-TV. Today is Fun With Music Day. Also airing is "The Triple R" the second episode of The Adventures of Spin and Marty serial.

1956 - The Disneyland series airs episode 56 - "Cameras in Samoa/ The Holland Story" on ABC-TV.

1957 - "Zorro's Romance" - the fifth episode of the Disney TV series Zorro - airs on ABC.

1958 - The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs the episode "His Majesty, King of the Beasts."

1962 - Disney's action adventure film The Legend of Lobo is released. Rex Allen, accompanied by the Sons Of The Pioneers, tells a tale about a crafty wolf named Lobo who tries to free his mate from a group of hunters.

1966 - Walt Disney is admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital on S. Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. The cancer has spread and sadly doctors believe Walt has between 6 months and 2 years to live. (Surgery will be performed the following day.)

1972 - Christopher Daniel Barnes, the voice of Prince Eric in Disney's The Little Mermaid (at only 16 years of age), is born in Portland, Maine. Widely known for performing the voice of Spider-Man from 1994-1998, Barnes also played Greg Brady in the Brady Bunch parody movies of the mid-90s.

1976 - Roy Williams, writer, cartoonist & actor passes away in Burbank, California. Known as "the big Mooseketeer" on the 1950s TV series The Mickey Mouse Club, Williams created the famous Mickey Mouse ears hat! He will be named a Disney Legend in 1992.

1999 - The Wonderful World of Disney airs "Annie" (a new telelvision production of the classic musical).

2003 - Animation historian John Canemaker appears at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with a colorfully illustrated multimedia presentation: The Art and Flair of Mary Blair, based on his new Disney Editions book. His lecture is followed by a book signing and a rare 35mm screening of Disney's Alice in Wonderland, the 1951 cartoon feature principally art directed by Mary Blair.

2004 - The Korea Times reports the city of Seoul, South Korea, and the Walt Disney Company have been discussing plans to create an amusement park.

2006 - Disney/Pixar's smash hit Cars is released to DVD.

2006 - Disney announces that they are creating a video game studio - called Fall Line - to make titles exclusively for Nintendo machines in an attempt to bring its animated characters to a wider audience.

2007 - Walt Disney Pictures' Enchanted has its London premiere at the Odeon West End.

2008 - A singalong version of High School Musical 3: Senior Year is released in 125 theaters across the U.S.

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