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01-08-2012, 07:17 AM
Jan. 8, 2006 – Adriano Bastos of Sao Paulo, Brazil won the 13th Annual Walt Disney World Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes, 44 seconds. Bastos is the very first 3-time winner in the 13-year history of the Florida marathon.
Jan. 8, 2007 – Animator, TV producer, and film director, Iwao Takamoto passed away at age 81 in Los Angeles, Ca. Best known for designing the Hanna-Barbera character Scooby-Doo, Takamoto first entered the world of cartoons at Disney in 1947. He workes as an animator on such classics as “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “One Hundred and One Dalmations,” and “Lady and the Tramp.”
Jan. 8, 2007 – After spending about a year on a redesign project, the Walt Disney Company unveiled the new Disney.com at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nv.
Jan. 8, 2007 – New Orleans Square, the final land to be added to Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom, opened to players. (VMK is a free online game ran by Disney.)
Jan. 8, 2008 – The 34th People’s Choice Awards honoring the best in popular culture for 2007, “Pirate’s of the Caribbean: At World’s End” won both Favorite Threequel and Favorite Movie, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Ca. and broadcast on CBS.
Jan. 8, 2009 – The Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend stepped off for 4 days of events beginning with the opening of Disney’s Health & Fitness Expo on this day at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex.
Jan. 8, 2010 – Disney on Ice presented “Let’s Celebrate!” in Cleveland, Oh. At the Quicken Loans Arena.
Jan. 8, 2010 – The Muppets made a debut appearance at U.S. Disney Parks in the new “Disney’s Honorary VoluntEars Cavalcade.”
Jan. 8, 2010 – The Olympic Heritage Celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the VIII Olympic Winter Games, hosted in 1960 by Squaw Valley USA, and Tahoma, on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore, kicked off for 10 days. (The director of the 1960 Winter Games was none other than Walt Disney, who designed the beginning and ending ceremonies and the awards staging.)
Jan. 8, 2011 – Tim Young of Rochester Hill, Michigan was the top overall finisher of the WDW Half Marathon in 1:05:29.
Jan. 8, 2007 – Animator, TV producer, and film director, Iwao Takamoto passed away at age 81 in Los Angeles, Ca. Best known for designing the Hanna-Barbera character Scooby-Doo, Takamoto first entered the world of cartoons at Disney in 1947. He workes as an animator on such classics as “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “One Hundred and One Dalmations,” and “Lady and the Tramp.”
Jan. 8, 2007 – After spending about a year on a redesign project, the Walt Disney Company unveiled the new Disney.com at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nv.
Jan. 8, 2007 – New Orleans Square, the final land to be added to Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom, opened to players. (VMK is a free online game ran by Disney.)
Jan. 8, 2008 – The 34th People’s Choice Awards honoring the best in popular culture for 2007, “Pirate’s of the Caribbean: At World’s End” won both Favorite Threequel and Favorite Movie, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Ca. and broadcast on CBS.
Jan. 8, 2009 – The Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend stepped off for 4 days of events beginning with the opening of Disney’s Health & Fitness Expo on this day at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex.
Jan. 8, 2010 – Disney on Ice presented “Let’s Celebrate!” in Cleveland, Oh. At the Quicken Loans Arena.
Jan. 8, 2010 – The Muppets made a debut appearance at U.S. Disney Parks in the new “Disney’s Honorary VoluntEars Cavalcade.”
Jan. 8, 2010 – The Olympic Heritage Celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the VIII Olympic Winter Games, hosted in 1960 by Squaw Valley USA, and Tahoma, on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore, kicked off for 10 days. (The director of the 1960 Winter Games was none other than Walt Disney, who designed the beginning and ending ceremonies and the awards staging.)
Jan. 8, 2011 – Tim Young of Rochester Hill, Michigan was the top overall finisher of the WDW Half Marathon in 1:05:29.