This Day in Disney History
January 7

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What happened in history on this day: January 7?

On January 7 in ...

  • 1931 - The Mickey Mouse film The Birthday Party is released to theaters.
  • 1933 - The Mickey Mouse film Building a Building is released to theaters.
  • 1933 - The first issue of Topolino magazine ("Mickey Mouse" in Italian) is published in Italy.
  • 1943 - Disney delivers the film The Spirit of '43 to the US Treasury Department. The film includes Donald Duck.
  • 1944 - The film The Pelican and the Snipe is released to theaters.
  • 1962 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, part one.
  • 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Way Down Cellar, part one.
  • 1973 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Mystery of Dracula's Castle, part one.
  • 1979 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Donovan's Kid, part one.
  • 1992 - The Voyage of the Little Mermaid show opens at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.
  • 1994 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film The Air Up There to theaters.
  • 1994 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Cabin Boy to theaters.
  • 2001 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US.
    • The line "is that your final answer" is said, a reference to the Disney-ABC TV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.
    • A sign for the "Disney Store" is shown as an example of a place smart people are not welcome.

  • 2002 - Disney announces it is using Compaq iPaq handheld computers to provide text and foreign language audio translations of some of its attractions in WDW. A wireless network automatically triggers the computer as the wearer moves among locations. Language translations available are French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish.
  • 2002 - Disney announces that Stu Bloomberg is being replaced by Susan Lyne as president of ABC's Entertainment Television Group, with Lloyd Braun as sole chairman.
  • 2004 - (to January 19) At the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, the ice skating show "Disney on Ice Presents Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc." is held.
  • 2005 - Goofy's Bounce House in Disneyland temporarily closes.

Births on January 7

Deaths on January 7




Flights to New Orleans for Mardi Gras

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Other web pages of interest:

  • Chronology of the Walt Disney Company
  • Walt Disney on Postage Stamps
  • Today in Sports History
  • Today in USA History
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