This Day in Disney History
October 31

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What happened in history on this day: October 31?

On October 31 in ...

  • 1927 - Universal Pictures releases the sixth Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film, All Wet, to theaters.
  • 1928 - By the end of the month, Disney has no offer to distribute Mickey Mouse films from Paramount Pictures or Film Booking Office. Universal Pictures decides it can't accept a Disney deal while they have a contract with Charles Mintz.
  • 1936 - The Silly Symphony film The Country Cousin is released to theaters.
  • 1947 - Disney releases the Goofy film Foul Hunting to theaters.
  • 1952 - The Goofy film Two Weeks' Vacation is released.
  • 1955 - The first Scamp comic strip is published in newspapers.
  • 1956 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled The Plausible Impossible. Included is the animated pencil test of the "soup eating sequence" rejected for the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the first "Tales of Texas John Slaughter" episode.
  • 1971 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove, part one.
  • 1976 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled The Secret of Old Glory Mine.
  • 1991 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. A gravestone is labeled "Walt Disney".
  • 1991 - The ABC TV network airs the last episode of the Disney TV series Good and Evil.
  • 1998 - Sony CEA releases the A Bug's Life video game for the PlayStation in the US.
  • 2002 - The American Space Experience exhibit in Tomorrowland at Disneyland adds a mock-up of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and rover to be used to explore Mars in 2005 and 2006.

Births on October 31

Deaths on October 31



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  • Chronology of the Walt Disney Company
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  • Today in Sports History
  • Today in USA History
  • Today in Personal Computer and Video Game History
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