This Week in Disney History (February 15-21)
1899: The wife of Walt Disney, Lillian Bounds, is born in Spalding, Ohio.
1904: Actor James Baskett (Uncle Remus in Song of the South) is born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1907: Actor Cesar Romero (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, The Strongest Man in the World) is born in New York City.
1927: Comedian Harvey Korman (Herbie Goes Bananas, The Adventures of Gallegher, Emil and the Detectives) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1949: Actor Pat Fraley (Chicken Little, Monsters Inc., Toy Story 2) is born in Seattle, Washington.
1950: Disney’s 12th animated feature, Cinderella, premieres.
1951: Actor Paul Kandel (Clopin in The Hunchback of Notre Dame) is born in Queens, New York.
1955: Actor Jeff Daniels (Tim O’Hara in My Favorite Martian, Roger in 101 Dalmatians, Doctor Ross Jennings in Arachnophobia) is born in Athens, Georgia.
1955: Actor Kelsey Grammer (Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2, Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story, Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas) is born on the island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.
1981: Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet) is born in Los Angeles, California.
1989: Actor Corbin Bleu (Chad Danforth in the High School Musical series, Jump In!) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1992: Actress Meaghan Jette Martin (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Tess Tyler in Camp Rock) is born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2001: Disney’s Recess: School’s Out premieres.
2001: The Disney Channel Original Movie Motocrossed premieres.
2002: Disney’s Return to Neverland premieres.
2004: Disney announces that it is in the process of buying the Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House from the Jim Henson Company.
2004: Disney’s Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen premieres.
2006: Disney’s Eight Below premieres.
2007: Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media’s Bridge to Terabithia premieres.
