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1905: Actor Andy Devine (Friar Tuck in Robin Hood) is born in Flagstaff, Arizona.
1907: Animator, and Disney Legend, Art Babbit (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinnochio, Dumbo, and Goofy in his later shorts) is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1910: Writer Winston Hibler (the Disneyland TV series, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan) is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1918: Film editor, and Disney Legend, Norman Palmer (Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Living Desert, Grand Canyon, Water Birds) is born in Santa Ana, California.
1923: Actress Glynis Johns (Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins, Princess Mary Tudor in The Sword and the Rose) is born in Pretoria, South Africa.
1949: Disney’s 11th animated feature, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, is released. 
1950: Actor Jeff Conaway (Willie in Pete’s Dragon) is born in New York City, NY.
1955: The Disneyland Hotel opens opposite the Anaheim park’s exit. It is privately owned and operated by the Wrather Corporation.
1955: At the newly opened Disneyland, ticket books go onsale. Guests may purchase a book (containing three A, two B, and three C tickets) for $2.50.
1956: The Muppets make their first network TV appearance on The Steve Allen Show. 
1956: Walt Disney places a letter to the future inside a time capsule. The paper has the title “PREDICTION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN THE WORLD 50 YEARS FROM NOW” The letter predicts the world will be taken over by technology.
1961: Actress Jodi Benson (Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Barbie in Toy Story 2) is born in Illinois.
1962: Actress Joan Cusack (Alsatia Zevo in Toy Story, Jessie in Toy Story 2, Ice Princess, Abby Mallard in Chicken Little) is born in New York City, NY.
1967: Singer and stage actress Toni Braxton (Bell in Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, Aida in Aida) is born in Severn, Maryland. It is the first and only time that an African American played the role of Belle.
1974: Stage actress Heather Headley (won a Tony for Best Actress for the title role in Aida, Nala in Broadway’s The Lion King) is born in Trinidad, West Indies.
1977: Kikkoman begins its sponsorship of the Adventureland Veranda restaurant in Disney World’s Adventureland.
1981: Disney’s The Watcher in the Woods is released.
1983: Disney’s Never Cry Wolf premieres.
1983: The first Disney Channel film, Tiger Town, premieres.
1988: Disney’s tv-series airs on NBC under the new title The Magical World of Disney.
1992: Walt Disney World announces that three new resorts will be built-with sports (All Star Sports), music (All Star Music), and wilderness (Disney’s Wilderness Lodge) themes, separately-that will offer over 4500 new rooms. They also announce that a new water park (Blizzard Beach) is being planned.
1993: The Mighty Ducks (the Disney-owned hockey team) play their inaugural game.
1996: A full-service spa and health center opens at the Grand Floridian, causing it to now be called Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
1998: In Walt Disney World’s Tomorrowland, Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin has its soft opening.
1998: Disney’s Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida debuts at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia (the title will later be shortened to Aida).
1998: In Epcot’s Imagination Pavilion, the Journey Into Imagination ride and the Image Works attraction close for renovation (only the ride will reopen after the renovation-minus The DreamFinder and Figment, his imaginary sidekick).
1999: The Disney Channel Original Movie Don’t Look Under the Bed premieres.
2001: Disneyland‘s Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through attraction closes for refurbishment, and never reopens (it is rumored to be reopening later this year).
2001: In Epcot’s Imagination Pavilion, the Journey into Your Imagination ride closes for a 2nd renovation.
2002: At Disney’s California Adventure, A Bug’s Land, designed for younger kids, opens.
2003: In Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Wishes, the park’s newest fireworks show, debuts.
2003: Over at Disneyland, The Golden Horseshoe Variety Show closes after more than 4,000 shows.
2003: In Walt Disney World’s Tomorrowland, The ExtraTERRORestrail Alien Encounter closes permanently (it will be replaced with Stitch’s Great Escape!)