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What happened in history on this day: January 17?
On January 17 in ...
- 1927 - Disney ships the 48th Alice Comedy film, Alice's Knaughty Knight, to Winkler Pictures.
- 1930 - Walt and Roy Disney, and their new lawyer Gunther Lessing take a train to New York, to confront Pat Powers regarding his defrauding them out of US$150,000 in royalties. Powers advances US$5000, challenging Walt to sue him for any more. Walt and Roy decide not to sue.
- 1932 - The first color Mickey Mouse comic page written and drawn by Floyd Gottfredson is published.
- 1985 - The film Magic Journeys opens in Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1988 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled Earth*Star Voyager, part one.
- 1991 - Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer sign a five-year film-making agreement with Disney. The pair had previously made films including Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Flashdance, and Beverly Hills Cop.
- 1993 - The Disney Channel airs the Disney Channel Premiere Film The Ernest Green Story.
- 1995 - Disney officials announce that a preliminary agreement was signed in December for the company to spend up to US$34 million on renovating the New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street in New York City.
- 1997 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Metro to theaters in the USA.
Births on January 17
- 1913 - Birth of Claude Coats in San Francisco, California, USA; artist at Walt Disney Company 1935-89 for films, displays at Disneyland attractions, named a Disney Legend 1988.
Deaths on January 17
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