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vizsla
09-21-2012, 05:01 AM
Sept. 21, 1987 – Disney’s animated TV series “Ducktales” began airing. (Ended Sept. 5, 1992)
Sept. 21, 1991 – The Disney TV series “The Torkelsons” began airing on NBC. (Last episode aired June 20, 1992)
Sept. 21, 1994 – Apple Computer began sponsorship of EPCOT’s Innoventions East.
Sept. 21, 1996 - IllumiNations 25 (original) opened for preview at Epcot in honor of WDW’S 25th Anniversary.
Sept. 21, 1997 – Actress Heather Locklear guest starred on a Disney Channel episode of “Muppets Tonight.”
Sept. 21, 1998 – Infoseek and Walt Disney announced that their Internet portal site would be called Go NETWORK. The Companies expect to launch it before December 1998.
Sept. 21, 1999 - IllumiNations closed at Epcot and would be replaced with IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth.
Sept. 21, 1999 – Disney’s one-hour television series “Once and Again” premiered on ABC-TV.
Sept. 21, 2001 – Marceline, Missouri, the small mid-western town that Walt Disney used as his model for Main Street U.S.A. Celebrated its 100th birthday starting today through the 23rd, with seminars on Walt Disney, a crop maze, a pie contest, a chili cook off and more.
Sept. 21, 2001 – A spokesman confirmed that the Bass family of Texas has sold a sizeable chunk, 135 million shares, of their stake in the Walt Disney Co. The sale generated about $2 million at about $15 a share.

pdrlkr
09-23-2012, 03:49 PM
Thanks Vince! :thumbsup: :mickey: