This Week in Disney History (April 26-May 2)
1902: Singer Harry Stockwell (Singing voice of the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) is born in Kansas City, Missouri.
1905: Actor Dennis O’Dea (Father Murphy in Darby O’Gill and the Little People, Dr. Livesy in Treasure Island) is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1915: Animator Art Stevens (Fantasia, Bambi, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Robin Hood, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Rescuers) is born in Roy, Montana.
1916: Actor Vic Perrin (Narrator of Spaceship Earth and Universe of Energy) is born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
1916: Artist Eyvind Earle (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, Paul Bunyan) is born in New York City.
1925: Actor Roscoe Lee Browne (Arrow in Treasure Planet, Oliver & Company, The World’s Greatest Athlete) is born in Woodbury, New Jersey.
1926: Actress Cloris Leachman (Nurse Spex in Sky High, Claire Porter in The North Avenue Irregulars, Aunt Louise in Herbie Goes Bananas) is born in Des Moines, Iowa.
1937: Actor Lorenzo Music (TaleSpin, The Gummi Bears) is born Gerald David Music in Brooklyn, New York.
1940: Walt Disney receives a patent for the multiplane camera used in filming animated films.
1949: Actor Bruno Kirby (Superdad) is born in New York City.
1972: Actor Dwayne Johnson (The Game Plan, Race to Witch Mountain) is born in Hayward, California.
1977: Actor Jason Earles (Hannah Montana, Phil of the Future) is born in San Diego, California.
1983: Disney’s Something Wicked This Way Comes premieres.
1986: In Epcot’s The Land Pavilion, the Good Turn Restaurant closes.
1989: Walt Disney World’s 3rd gate, the Disney-MGM Studios, opens to the public.
1990: Actress Kay Panabaker (Monsters Inc., Phil of the Future, Read it and Weep) is born in Texas.
1991: Disney/Jim Henson’s Dinosaurs premieres on ABC.
2001: In Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, the Rocket Rods attraction closes forever.
2001: In Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s DinoLand U.S.A, Countdown to Extinction is renamed DINOSAUR!.
2003: Disney’s The Lizzie McGuire Movie premieres.
2004: Cable TV provider Comcast withdraws it’s multi-billion dollar attempt to buy the Walt Disney Company.
2007: Guests can now purchase and print out tickets for the Disneyland Resort at their home.
