Today in {DISNEY} History...2/10
1763:
1929:
Legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith, whose musical scores can be
heard in the Disney film attraction Soarin' Over California and the 1998 animated feature Mulan, is born in Pasadena, California. While a student at L.A. City College, he studied under future Disney Legend and composer Buddy Baker! Goldsmith's enormous and diverse body of work during his 6-decade career includes television - The Twilight Zone and The Waltons, and such feature films as Air Force One, Star Trek: Voyager, Total Recall, Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes.
1935:
1941:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney's Pinocchio receiving two for Music, Best Score and Music, Best Song (for "When You Wish Upon a Star")
1951:
Robert A. Iger is born on Long Island, New York
1957:
On this day in 1957, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the best-selling “Little House” series of children’s novels based on her childhood on the American frontier, dies at age 90 in Mansfield, Missouri.
1958:
The "Annette" serial (starring Annette Funicello) is introduced on ABC-TV's Mickey Mouse Club. Funicello stars as Annette McCloud, a shy orphan from a small country farm who moves to the upper-class suburbs so she can live with an aunt and uncle she hasn't seen in years. There will be 19 more episodes of "Annette" aired over the following month.
1960:
Disneyland's Rainbow Mountain Stagecoach attraction is retired.
1962:
On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States five years earlier.
1972:
2000:
Actor Jim Varney, famous for his "Ernest P. Worrell" character, dies
of lung cancer in Tennessee, at age 50. Varney lent his voice to such classic
animated Disney films as Atlantis: The Lost Empire (still in production at the time of his passing) as Jebidiah Allardyce 'Cookie' Farnsworth, and both Toy Story & Toy Story 2 as the voice of Slinky Dog. (Varney's good friend/comedian Blake Clark supplied the voice of Slinky for Toy Story 3.) At one time Epcot's Cranium Command attraction used his Ernest character in its preshow as an example of a "lovable but not the brightest person on the planet" type of person. Varney's character Ernest proved so popular in advertisements, that it was spun off into a TV series and a series of movies distributed by Touchstone Pictures in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1990 Varney even appeared as Ernest on the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration." Today the handprints of Varney can be viewed in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
2008:
The British Academy Film Awards are presented at the Royal Opera House in
London, England. Ratatouille wins Best Animated Film, beating out Shrek the Third and The Simpsons Movie.
2014:
On this day in 2014, Shirley Temple Black, who as a child in the 1930s became one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, dies at her Woodside, California, home at age 85.
1846:
Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
1899:
On this day in 1899, future President Herbert Hoover marries his
fellow Stanford University geology student and sweetheart Lou Henry in
Monterey, California.
After their nuptials, the newlyweds departed on a honeymoon cruise to
China, where Hoover had accepted a position as mining consultant to the
Chinese emperor.1929:
Legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith, whose musical scores can be
heard in the Disney film attraction Soarin' Over California and the 1998 animated feature Mulan, is born in Pasadena, California. While a student at L.A. City College, he studied under future Disney Legend and composer Buddy Baker! Goldsmith's enormous and diverse body of work during his 6-decade career includes television - The Twilight Zone and The Waltons, and such feature films as Air Force One, Star Trek: Voyager, Total Recall, Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes.
1935:
1935:
Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse Sunday edition comic strip (by Ted Osbourne and Floyd Gottfredson).1941:
Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney's Pinocchio receiving two for Music, Best Score and Music, Best Song (for "When You Wish Upon a Star")
1951:
Robert A. Iger is born on Long Island, New York
1957:
On this day in 1957, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the best-selling “Little House” series of children’s novels based on her childhood on the American frontier, dies at age 90 in Mansfield, Missouri.
1958:
The "Annette" serial (starring Annette Funicello) is introduced on ABC-TV's Mickey Mouse Club. Funicello stars as Annette McCloud, a shy orphan from a small country farm who moves to the upper-class suburbs so she can live with an aunt and uncle she hasn't seen in years. There will be 19 more episodes of "Annette" aired over the following month.
1960:
Disneyland's Rainbow Mountain Stagecoach attraction is retired.
1962:
On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States five years earlier.
1972:
1996:
In the first game of a six-game match, an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue” becomes the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial upset victory, man ultimately triumphed over machine as Kasparov goes went on to win the match, 4-2.
In the first game of a six-game match, an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue” becomes the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial upset victory, man ultimately triumphed over machine as Kasparov goes went on to win the match, 4-2.
2000:
Actor Jim Varney, famous for his "Ernest P. Worrell" character, dies
of lung cancer in Tennessee, at age 50. Varney lent his voice to such classic
animated Disney films as Atlantis: The Lost Empire (still in production at the time of his passing) as Jebidiah Allardyce 'Cookie' Farnsworth, and both Toy Story & Toy Story 2 as the voice of Slinky Dog. (Varney's good friend/comedian Blake Clark supplied the voice of Slinky for Toy Story 3.) At one time Epcot's Cranium Command attraction used his Ernest character in its preshow as an example of a "lovable but not the brightest person on the planet" type of person. Varney's character Ernest proved so popular in advertisements, that it was spun off into a TV series and a series of movies distributed by Touchstone Pictures in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1990 Varney even appeared as Ernest on the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration." Today the handprints of Varney can be viewed in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
2008:
The British Academy Film Awards are presented at the Royal Opera House in
London, England. Ratatouille wins Best Animated Film, beating out Shrek the Third and The Simpsons Movie.
2014:
On this day in 2014, Shirley Temple Black, who as a child in the 1930s became one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, dies at her Woodside, California, home at age 85.
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