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1929: The Walt Disney Studios is incorporated and replaced by Walt Disney Productions, Ltd; Walt Disney Interprises; Liled Realty and Investment Company; and the Disney Film Recording Company.
1933: Actor Tim Conway (Apple Dumpling Gang, The World’s Greatest Athlete) is born Thomas Daniel Conway in Willoughby, Ohio.
1935: Actor George Lindsey (Herbie-the TV series, The Love Bug, The Rescuers, Snowball Express) is born in Alabama.
1952: Walt Disney starts WED Enterprises as a private company to design Disneyland and manage his personal assets. 
1958: Disneyland‘s first Candlelight Processional Parade is held.
1961: Disney’s first live-action musical, Babes in Toyland, is released.
1966: December 15-Walter Elias Disney passes away at St. Joseph’s Hospital from complications due to his lung cancer.
1971: December 20-Roy Oliver Disney passes away from a cerebral hemorrhage. Don Tatum will become the first Chairman of Walt Disney Productions that is not a Disney family member.
1972: At Walt Disney World, construction begins on Space Mountain.
1973: In Walt Disney World, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride opens in Adventureland.  At first, WED Enterprises was afraid to put this ride in because of Florida’s proximity to the real Caribbean. They were going to put in an attraction called the Western River Expedition which would have had a storyline featuring cowboys and Indians.
1977: Disney’s Candleshoe is released.
1983: Disney’s Mickey’s Christmas Carol (featuring Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse) is released.
1987: In the Magic Kingdom’s Fantasy Theater, the Magic Journeys film opens after being moved from Epcot.
1988: Actress Vanessa Anne Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical movies, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) is born in Salinas, California.
1989: At the Disney-MGM Studios’ Echo Lake, Star Tours opens.
1990: On the Disney-MGM Studios’ Streets of America, the Honey I Shrunk the Audience Movie Set Adventure opens. 
1991: Touchstone Picture’s Father of the Bride is released.
1991: Jim Henson Productions and Buena Vista Home Video sign a distribution agreement.
1994: In the Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland, Snow White’s Adventures reopens as Snow White’s Scary Adventures while the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter has a soft opening in Tomorrowland.
1997: Thirty-one years and a day after her husband’s death, Lillian Bounds Disney dies in her sleep.
1998: In Epcot’s Future World, Test Track opens.
2000: Disney’s 39th animated film, The Emperor’s New Groove, is released.
2003: The first phase of Walt Disney World’s Pop Century Resort (the Classic Years 1950-1990) opens after many delays.