1922: The Laugh-O-Gram silent black & white cartoon Little Red Riding Hood is released. It is written, produced, and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Rudolph Ising. This is Disney’’s first full-length short cartoon.
1933: Disney’’s Silly Symphony cartoon Old King Cole is released.
1938: Disney’’s Donald Duck cartoon The Fox Hunt is released.
1941: Actor David Warner, who appeared in Disney’’s 1982 Tron, is born in Manchester, England.
1998: The Parent Trap (a remake of the 1961 Disney film starring Hayley Mills) is released.
1999: Walt Disney World’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith is dedicated at the Disney-MGM Studios. (It will officially open to the public the following day.)
2000: To mark the first anniversary of the Rock ”n” Roller Coaster, Walt Disney World takes 80 Corvettes and forms the signature guitar in the Disney-MGM Studios parking lot.
2002: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers with head coach Jon Gruden begin their first summer training camp at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex in Florida.
2005: The family stage show Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh launches a U.S. tour in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The new interactive and three-dimensional production is produced by Field Entertainment, Inc.
Disney’’s live-action film Sky High, starring Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston, opens in theaters.
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