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What happened in history on this day: March 5?
On March 5 in ...
- 1925 - The Alice Comedy film, Alice Cans the Cannibals, is played at the Criterion Theatre in Los Angeles.
- 1928 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Rival Romeos to theaters.
- 1932 - The Mickey Mouse film The Mad Dog is released to theaters.
- 1936 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film Three Orphan Kittens.
- 1948 - Disney releases the Donald Duck film Drip Dippy Donald to theaters.
- 1950 - The first color comic strip of "Cinderella" is published in Sunday editions of newspapers.
- 1954 - Disney releases the Donald Duck film Donald's Diary to theaters. Daisy Duck also appears.
- 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the fifth "Saga of Andy Burnett" episode, The White Man's Medicine.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the animated film The Coyote's Lament. It is a compilation of Disney cartoons, with new coyote animation. Pluto also appears.
- 1967 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Atta Girl, Kelly!, part one.
- 1978 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Race for Survival.
- 1983 - The Journey into Imagination attraction opens in the Journey into Imagination pavilion in EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World.
- 1991 - The Disney Channel begins airing the Avonlea series.
- 1993 - Disney releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Swing Kids to theaters in the US.
- 1993 - The ABC TV network debuts the series Where I Live.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character refers to a film as Pukahontas, an obvious reference to Disney's film Pocahontas.
- 1999 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Beloved to theaters in Great Britain.
- 2004 - Disney releases the live-action feature film Hidalgo to theaters in the USA.
- 2005 - Goofy's Playhouse opens in Mickey's Toontown at Disneyland. Former name was Goofy's Bounce House.
- 2006 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Achievement in Makeup) to Howard Berger and Tami Lane for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- 2010 - Disney releases the film Alice in Wonderland to theaters in the US.
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