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04-05-2010, 05:02 AM
Apr. 5, 1614 – Pocohantas (the daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indians) married John Rolfe (a tobacco planter) in Jamestown, Va. The marriage would ensure peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Indians for several years.
Apr. 5, 1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, the voice of Professor Archimedes Q. Porter in Disney’s 1999 film “Tarzan”, was born in Coventry, England.
Apr. 5, 1930 – Mary Costa, the voices of Princess Aurora/Briar Rose in Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty”, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Apr. 5, 1930 – The Mickey Mouse short “The Barnyard Concert” was released.
Apr. 5, 1934 – Actor and impressionist Frank Gorshin was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He would go on to play the role of Iggy the bank robber in Disney’s 1965 live-action film “That Darn Cat!”
Apr. 5, 1938 – Disney’s first full length animated feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was released in Canada.
Apr. 5, 1940 – Walt Disney director Ben Sharpsteen, and their wives left for N.Y.C. by train. As “Fantasia” is in production, Walt and Ben want to see a demonstration of dimensional sound being put on at Carnegie Hall.
Apr. 5, 1940 – Disney’s Donald Duck cartoon “Donald’s Double Trouble” and “Donald’s Dog Laundry were released.
Apr. 5, 1956 – The “Crane Company Bathroom of Tomorrow” display debuted in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. (Closed Aug. 31, 1960)
Apr. 5, 1963 – Fairfax Cone (acting as temporary chairman of the Illinois Commission on the New York World’s Fair) visited the Disney Studios for a presentation of an animatronic Abraham Lincoln figure. A skeptical Cone was impressed and convinced that it should be part of the Illinois participation in the upcoming 1964-65 World’s Fair.
Apr. 5, 1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, the voice of Professor Archimedes Q. Porter in Disney’s 1999 film “Tarzan”, was born in Coventry, England.
Apr. 5, 1930 – Mary Costa, the voices of Princess Aurora/Briar Rose in Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty”, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Apr. 5, 1930 – The Mickey Mouse short “The Barnyard Concert” was released.
Apr. 5, 1934 – Actor and impressionist Frank Gorshin was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He would go on to play the role of Iggy the bank robber in Disney’s 1965 live-action film “That Darn Cat!”
Apr. 5, 1938 – Disney’s first full length animated feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was released in Canada.
Apr. 5, 1940 – Walt Disney director Ben Sharpsteen, and their wives left for N.Y.C. by train. As “Fantasia” is in production, Walt and Ben want to see a demonstration of dimensional sound being put on at Carnegie Hall.
Apr. 5, 1940 – Disney’s Donald Duck cartoon “Donald’s Double Trouble” and “Donald’s Dog Laundry were released.
Apr. 5, 1956 – The “Crane Company Bathroom of Tomorrow” display debuted in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. (Closed Aug. 31, 1960)
Apr. 5, 1963 – Fairfax Cone (acting as temporary chairman of the Illinois Commission on the New York World’s Fair) visited the Disney Studios for a presentation of an animatronic Abraham Lincoln figure. A skeptical Cone was impressed and convinced that it should be part of the Illinois participation in the upcoming 1964-65 World’s Fair.