Event:
Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
Walt Disney History:
September 20, 1985 - Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest
July 9, 1980 - Walt Disney's "Fox and The Hound," released
June 22, 1977 - Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released
April 15, 1973 - Walt Disney Store opens
October 1, 1971 - Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
December 24, 1970 - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
October 18, 1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
December 15, 1966 - Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
November 16, 1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
September 14, 1964 - Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
August 29, 1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
December 25, 1963 - Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
September 28, 1961 - Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
January 25, 1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
January 29, 1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
June 23, 1955 - Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released
October 26, 1954 - Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
February 5, 1953 - "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City
July 28, 1951 - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
February 15, 1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
November 12, 1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
February 3, 1945 - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
June 14, 1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released
October 23, 1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
November 13, 1940 - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
February 23, 1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released
February 7, 1940 - Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (New York City)
May 27, 1933 - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
May 12, 1932 - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
November 18, 1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
February 8, 1926 - Walt Disney Studios forms
May 23, 1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
January 29, 1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co.
June 8, 1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
December 5, 1901 - Walt Disney, born in Chicago, animator, Mickey Mouse
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1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1938 Olympic National Park forms
