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What happened in history on this day: March 8?
On March 8 in ...
- 1928 - The Disney studio completes the 22nd Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Sky Scrappers, and ships it to Winkler Productions.
- 1946 - The Goofy film A Knight for a Day is released to theaters.
- 1964 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring For the Love of Willadean, part one.
- 1967 - Buena Vista releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin to theaters. The film is based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman.
- 1970 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Menace on the Mountain, part two.
- 1975 - The NBC TV network airs NBC Nights at the Movies featuring Pollyanna.
- 1986 - The Alice's Tea Party attraction opens in Fantasyland at Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1987 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled Bigfoot.
- 1990 - Tokyo Disneyland welcomes its 80-millionth guest.
- 1995 - The CBS TV network debuts Disney's TV show The George Wendt Show.
- 2002 - Disney's Pop Century Resort opens at Walt Disney World.
- 2003 - The Le Music-Hall de Mickey show opens in Videopolis at Disneyland Paris.
Births on March 8
Deaths on March 8
- 1998 - Death of Marvin Davis at age 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA; architect, art director at 20th Century Fox, worked at Disney 1955-95, helped plan Disneyland layout, designs for many buildings, worked on films and TV shows, Emmy award 1962, planning and designing Walt Disney World, named a Disney Legend 1994.
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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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