Today in Disney History 7/10

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July 10, 1910 – Imagineer and Disney Legend Bill Evans was born in Santa Monica, Ca. He would go on to landscape Disneyland as well as consult on the landscape design of Tokyo Disneyland.
July 10, 1981 – Disney’s “The Fox and the Hound,” featuring the voices of Jack Albertson, Pearl Bailey, Sandy Duncan, Corey Feldman, Kurt Russell, Paul Winchell, and Mickey Rooney, premiered in theaters.
July 10, 1981 – The Disney film “Once Upon a Mouse” was released.
July 10, 1993 – The one-hour pilot of Disney’s television series “Country Estates” aired.
July 10, 1993 – Disney’s 60-minute syndicated television special “Disneyland Presents Tales of Toontown” aired.
July 10, 1995 – “Scamp,” one of Lady and Tramp’s puppies in “Lady and the Tramp,” 1st appeared in a comic strip in the Treasury of Classic Tales Lady and the Tramp strip.
July 10, 1999 – The Backstreet Boys performed in an hour-long Disney Channel special, “Backstreet Boys in Concert.” (The concert was taped 2 months earlier at the New Amsterdam Theater in N.Y.C.)
July 10, 2000 – The Kansas City Star reported that the Walt Disney Family has pledged funds to restore the original Walt Disney Animation Studio “Laugh-O-Gram” in Kansas City. For nearly 10 years, the Thank You, Walt Disney Organization had been trying to set up a Disney Museum in the city, the birthplace of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters. The Walt and Lily Disney Foundation pledged $450,000 contingent to whether the Thank You, Walt Disney Organization could match the amount.

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