Today in {DISNEY} History...2/11
1778:
On this day in 1778, some 300 people visit Voltaire following his return to Paris. Voltaire had been in exile for 28 years.
1861:
On this day in 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln leaves home in Springfield, Illinois, and embarks on his journey to Washington, D.C.
1916:
Emma Goldman, a crusader for women’s rights and social justice, is arrested in New York City for lecturing and distributing materials about birth control.
1918:
Imagineer, sculptor & Disney Legend Blaine Gibson is born in Rocky Ford, Colorado.
1952:
On this day in 1952, a series of deadly avalanches begins across central Europe. A storm stalled over the middle of Europe the first week of February 1952, dumping a couple of feet of snow in parts of France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
1952:
Disney's Alice in Wonderland is nominated for an Academy Award, Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
1970:Variety reports that Walt Disney secretly took its movie Song of the South
out of circulation back in 1958. The publication claims the movie was pulled because of racist attitudes in the film.
1990:
Nelson Mandela released from prison
2000:
Disney's The Tigger Movie,
narrated by John Hurt and featuring five new songs by the Sherman Brothers, is released. Tigger (voiced by Jim Cummings) goes looking through the hundred-acre-wood to find his family. It is the first time Pooh and his friends appear in an original,
theatrically-released feature film (previous Pooh features were either compilations of shorts, or made for video productions). The songs for The Tigger Movie have been written by Robert and Richard Sherman, who have not written for a Disney feature in over 28 years! The film will open at #4 at the North American box office making $9.4 million in its opening weekend.
2011:
The animated feature
Gnomeo & Juliet (based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet) is released by Touchstone Pictures. Featuring the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, it is Touchstone's first animated film since 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
2011:
Mickey's Toontown Fair at Walt Disney World, a section of the Magic Kingdom that started as Mickey's Birthday Land in 1988, shuts its gates for good at the end of this day. The area is needed for the ongoing Fantasyland expansion project. The Barnstormer attraction is scheduled to remain (but with a new name and theming), but the rest of Toontown will fade into Disney history.
2012:
On this day in 2012, Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
On this day in 1778, some 300 people visit Voltaire following his return to Paris. Voltaire had been in exile for 28 years.
1861:
On this day in 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln leaves home in Springfield, Illinois, and embarks on his journey to Washington, D.C.
1916:
Emma Goldman, a crusader for women’s rights and social justice, is arrested in New York City for lecturing and distributing materials about birth control.
1918:
Imagineer, sculptor & Disney Legend Blaine Gibson is born in Rocky Ford, Colorado.
1952:
On this day in 1952, a series of deadly avalanches begins across central Europe. A storm stalled over the middle of Europe the first week of February 1952, dumping a couple of feet of snow in parts of France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
1952:
Disney's Alice in Wonderland is nominated for an Academy Award, Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
1970:Variety reports that Walt Disney secretly took its movie Song of the South
out of circulation back in 1958. The publication claims the movie was pulled because of racist attitudes in the film.1990:
Nelson Mandela released from prison
2000:
Disney's The Tigger Movie,
narrated by John Hurt and featuring five new songs by the Sherman Brothers, is released. Tigger (voiced by Jim Cummings) goes looking through the hundred-acre-wood to find his family. It is the first time Pooh and his friends appear in an original, theatrically-released feature film (previous Pooh features were either compilations of shorts, or made for video productions). The songs for The Tigger Movie have been written by Robert and Richard Sherman, who have not written for a Disney feature in over 28 years! The film will open at #4 at the North American box office making $9.4 million in its opening weekend.
2011:
The animated feature
Gnomeo & Juliet (based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet) is released by Touchstone Pictures. Featuring the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, it is Touchstone's first animated film since 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas.2011:
Mickey's Toontown Fair at Walt Disney World, a section of the Magic Kingdom that started as Mickey's Birthday Land in 1988, shuts its gates for good at the end of this day. The area is needed for the ongoing Fantasyland expansion project. The Barnstormer attraction is scheduled to remain (but with a new name and theming), but the rest of Toontown will fade into Disney history.
2012:
On this day in 2012, Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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