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07-06-2007, 07:02 PM
July 6, 1921 – Bill Shirley, the voice of Prince Philip in Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty,” was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 6, 1925 – Walt and Roy Disney put up a $400 deposit on a lot at 2719 Hyperion Ave., in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, Ca. Their plan was to build a new animation studio. (The single story building would serve as Disney’s base for the next fifteen years.
July 6, 1951 – Actor Geoffrey Rush, who appeared as Barbossa in Disney’s live-action film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” and supplied the voice of Nigel in “Finding Nemo,” was born in Australia.
July 6, 1971 – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, who recorded an album titled “Disney Songs the Satchmo Way” in the mid 1960’s, and appeared as a guest on the 1962 TV special “Disneyland After Dark,” died at the age of 69 in New York City.
July 6, 1978 – The cast of TV’s “The New Mickey Mouse Club” performed 4 shows at Disneyland’s Space Stage Theatre in Tomorrowland. (The open amphitheatre would eventually become the home for the “Honey I Shrunk the Audience” attraction.)
July 6, 1993 – Actor Jeremy Suarez, the voice of Coda in Disney’s 2003 “Brother Bear,” was born in Reno, Nv.
July 6, 1994 - Captain EO had its last showing in the Journey into Imagination Pavilion at Epcot.
July 6, 1999 - Global Neighborhood closed for rehab in Spaceship Earth.
July 6, 2004 – A 230-pound female African elephant calf was born in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
July 6, 2004 – Disney’s 1978 “The Cat From Outer Space” was released on DVD.
July 6, 1925 – Walt and Roy Disney put up a $400 deposit on a lot at 2719 Hyperion Ave., in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, Ca. Their plan was to build a new animation studio. (The single story building would serve as Disney’s base for the next fifteen years.
July 6, 1951 – Actor Geoffrey Rush, who appeared as Barbossa in Disney’s live-action film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” and supplied the voice of Nigel in “Finding Nemo,” was born in Australia.
July 6, 1971 – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, who recorded an album titled “Disney Songs the Satchmo Way” in the mid 1960’s, and appeared as a guest on the 1962 TV special “Disneyland After Dark,” died at the age of 69 in New York City.
July 6, 1978 – The cast of TV’s “The New Mickey Mouse Club” performed 4 shows at Disneyland’s Space Stage Theatre in Tomorrowland. (The open amphitheatre would eventually become the home for the “Honey I Shrunk the Audience” attraction.)
July 6, 1993 – Actor Jeremy Suarez, the voice of Coda in Disney’s 2003 “Brother Bear,” was born in Reno, Nv.
July 6, 1994 - Captain EO had its last showing in the Journey into Imagination Pavilion at Epcot.
July 6, 1999 - Global Neighborhood closed for rehab in Spaceship Earth.
July 6, 2004 – A 230-pound female African elephant calf was born in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
July 6, 2004 – Disney’s 1978 “The Cat From Outer Space” was released on DVD.