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1848: Author and journalist Joel Chandler Harris (writer of the Uncle Remus stories-”Br’er Rabbit, etc”) is born near Eatonton, Georgia.
1879: Illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard (worked on the Winnie-the-Pooh books) is born in St. John’s Wood, London, England.
1888: Oldest child of Elias Disney, Herbert Arthur Disney, is born in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1910: Composer and actor Louis Prima (King Louie in The Jungle Book) is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1916: Director and Disney Legend Richard Fleischer (director of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) is born in Brooklyn, Ney York.
1923: Actor Harold Gould (Grandpa in the 2003 Freaky Friday and Old Denahi in Brother Bear) is born in Schenectady, New York.
1925: Actor Dick Van Dyke (Bert the Cockney in Mary Poppins) is born in West Plains, Missouri. 
1928: Actor Dick Van Patten (The Strongest Man in the World, The Shaggy D.A., Freaky Friday) is born in New York City, NY.
1929: Publisher and Disney Legend Gaudenzio Capelli (owner of Italy’s Topolino magazine which popularized Disney characters in the country) is born in Milan, Italy.
1934: Actress Judi Dench (Mrs. Calloway in Home on the Range, narrator of Epcot’s Spaceship Earth) is born in York, North Yorkshire, England. 
1937: Actor James MacArthur (Fritz Robinson in Swiss Family Robinson) is born in Los Angeles, California.
1941 (December 7): Army troops invade the Disney Burbank lot to provide an anti-aircraft installation to protect the nearby Lockheed factory.
1941 (December 8): Walt receives a contract from the Navy to write several films on aircraft and warship identification.
1949: Actor Bill Nighy (Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End) is born in Surrey, England.
1954: Walt Disney’s grandson, Chris Miller, is born in Monterey County, California.
1957: Actor Steve Buscemi (Wesley in Home on the Range, Randall Boggs in Monsters Inc.) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1963: Disney’s The Three Lives of Thomasina is released.
1964: In Delaware, the Compass East Corporation is incorporated. Learn more about it here
1971: Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks is released.
1985: In California, PIXAR is incorporated.
1985: Actress Raven-Symone (That’s So Raven, Kim Possible) is born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1986: The Disney Channel begins to broadcast 24 hours a day.
1992: Disney is awarded a hockey franchise (The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) by the National Hockey League.
1992: Walt Disney Pictures releases The Muppet Christmas Carol.
1993: EPCOT‘s Listen to the Land reopens as Living with the Land.
1994: Disney animators move into their new building on Riverside Drive in Hollywood (aka The Hat Building).
1995: The Disneyland Pacific Hotel (formerly the Pan Pacific Hotel and futurely the Paradise Pier Hotel) opens. It is one of the only hotels in the Western Hemisphere that has a 13th floor.
1997: Disney/ABC Cable Networks announce the launch of Toon Disney.
2002: In the Hyperion Theatre at Disney’s California Adventure, Disney’s Aladdin-Live on Stage starts performances.
2005: Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is released..