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What happened in history on this day: April 4?
On April 4 in ...
- 1927 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice's Auto Race to theaters. This is the last Alice Comedy with actor Margie Gay as Alice.
- 1941 - Disney publishes the last issue of The Bulletin, the studio's employee newsletter.
- 1944 - RKO Pictures re-releases the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in theaters in New York.
- 1952 - The Goofy film Man's Best Friend is released.
- 1956 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled Where do the Stories Come From?.
- 1960 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Scientific or Technical, Class III) to Ub Iwerks for the design of an optical printer for special effects.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Kilroy, part four.
- 1994 - Michael Eisner temporarily assumes the titles of president and chief operating officer at Disney.
- 1995 - Disney releases the animated film compilation Ariel's Songs and Stories on laserdisc in the US, for US$30. It includes Wish Upon a Starfish, Metal Fish, Giggles, Against the Tide.
- 1995 - Disney releases the laserdisc Jasmine's Enchanted Tales (Disney Princess Collection) for US$30. It contains several episodes of the Aladdin TV series: Do the Rat Thing, Bad Mood Rising, Garden of Evil, Elemental My Dear Jasmine.
- 1995 - Disney hires Stephen Bollenbach as chief financial officer.
- 1997 - Knight-Ridder announces it is buying four newspapers from the Walt Disney Company for US$1.65 billion. The newspapers are The Kansas Star in Missouri, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Belleville News-Democrat in Illinois, and The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The newspapers were acquired by Disney in its acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC. This is the largest single purchase ever of newspapers.
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US.
- An amusement park on the Moon makes several references to Disney theme parks:
- it is referred to as "The Happiest Place Orbiting the Earth";
- inside the main park gate is "Moon Street U.S.A." (Main Street U.S.A.);
- the attraction "Whalers of the Sea of Tranquility" is a parody of Pirates of the Caribbean;
- the attraction "Monsanto presents The Goofy Gopher Revue" is a parody of Country Bear Jamboree;
- the attraction "Destination Moon" may be a parody of Flight to the Moon, with mechanically animated characters and singing similar to It's a Small World;
- employees who create the attractions are called Fungineers (Imagineers).
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A devil-like character rises from a castle like the scene in Fantasia where the Chernabog rises from the mountain. Part of the same music also plays.
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