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06-13-2009, 05:35 AM
June 13, 2000 – The Broadway cast album of Disney’s “Aida” was released. (It would go on to win Best Musical Show Album at the 2001 43rd Annual Grammy Awards)
June 13, 2002 – Singer-songwriter, and Academy Award winner Randy Newman, who wrote the music for Disney’s “Monsters, Inc.” and the song “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” from Disney’s 1995 classic “Toy Story” was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
June 13, 2002 – President Bush assembles corporate America heavyweights (including Disney Chairman Michael Eisner) at the White House to encourage businesses that foster volunteerism among their workers. Eisner tells Bush: “We’re all committed to showing what corporate America can do to lead and show by example that not only it is good business, it’s good for the community, it’s fun, it’s rewarding and it is unbelievably helpful to the country.”
June 13, 2003 – “Bering Strait” (the Grammy-nominated Russian group) kicked off a line up of global performers for the Epcot World Music Concert series.
June 13, 2003 – The Lizzie McGuire episode “The Gordo Shuffle” aired on the Disney Channel.
June 13, 2003 – The Disney Channel Original Movie “The Even Stevens Movie” aired.
June 13, 2004 – Disney’s film “Around the World in 80 Days” had its premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
June 13, 2005 – Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida welcomed its one-millionth athlete Dessire Wilkerson, a 13-year-old girl’s volleyball player from the Kentucky Indiana Volleyball Academy.
June 13, 2005 – Daudi Bamuwamye, 4-years-old, died after riding Mission: Space at Epcot in WDW. It was determined by an autopsy that Daudi had a rare heart disease.
June 13, 2006 – Disney’s broadway hit “The Lion King” reopened at the Minskoff Theater a week after leaving the New Amsterdam Theater.
June 13, 2002 – Singer-songwriter, and Academy Award winner Randy Newman, who wrote the music for Disney’s “Monsters, Inc.” and the song “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” from Disney’s 1995 classic “Toy Story” was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
June 13, 2002 – President Bush assembles corporate America heavyweights (including Disney Chairman Michael Eisner) at the White House to encourage businesses that foster volunteerism among their workers. Eisner tells Bush: “We’re all committed to showing what corporate America can do to lead and show by example that not only it is good business, it’s good for the community, it’s fun, it’s rewarding and it is unbelievably helpful to the country.”
June 13, 2003 – “Bering Strait” (the Grammy-nominated Russian group) kicked off a line up of global performers for the Epcot World Music Concert series.
June 13, 2003 – The Lizzie McGuire episode “The Gordo Shuffle” aired on the Disney Channel.
June 13, 2003 – The Disney Channel Original Movie “The Even Stevens Movie” aired.
June 13, 2004 – Disney’s film “Around the World in 80 Days” had its premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
June 13, 2005 – Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida welcomed its one-millionth athlete Dessire Wilkerson, a 13-year-old girl’s volleyball player from the Kentucky Indiana Volleyball Academy.
June 13, 2005 – Daudi Bamuwamye, 4-years-old, died after riding Mission: Space at Epcot in WDW. It was determined by an autopsy that Daudi had a rare heart disease.
June 13, 2006 – Disney’s broadway hit “The Lion King” reopened at the Minskoff Theater a week after leaving the New Amsterdam Theater.