Today in Disney History 3/13

[vizsla]

Mar. 13, 1966 – The Disney TV show aired “Run, Light Buck, Run.”
Mar. 13, 1968 – Disney’s film “The Love Bug”, starring Dean Jones, Michelle Lee, Buddy Hackett, and Joe Flynn was released.
Mar. 13, 1977 – The 2-hour Disney television movie “The Ghost of Cypress Swamp” aired.
Mar. 13, 2000 – The Omnimover vehicles were removed from the closed Horizons attraction in Epcot. Since the beginning of this month, the building has been emptied in preparation for demolition. (Mission: SPACE will take its place.)
Mar. 13, 2001 – A 1,500-acre spread of the Disney Wilderness Preserve in Polk County, Fl. continued to burn after a power line fell and ignited some brush. (The fire affected land donated by the Walt Disney Co. to the Nature Conservancy, a non-profit environmental group that is attempting to return some of the pastureland there to its original swamp condition.
Mar. 13, 2002 – Disney’s Broadway show “Beauty and the Beast” gave its 3,225th performance.
Mar. 13, 2005 – Walt Disney Co. directors choose President Robert A. Iger to succeed CEO Michael Eisner. (Eisner would remain at his post till Sept. 30, 2005.)
Mar. 13, 2005 – The “Crush’n’Gusher” water coaster opened to guest at Typhoon Lagoon in WDW.
Mar. 13, 2007 – Hannah Montana kicked off the new D*Concert series on Disney XD. The three month concert series would feature artists such as High School Musical and Cheetah Girls.
Mar. 13, 2009 – A new illuminated “Paradise Pier” sign to the “California Screamin’ Roller Coaster” greeted guests of Disney’s California Adventure for the first time.

[Jeff]

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