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Disney Company First Began
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First Animated Film: Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs
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The Disney Studio begins its move to Burbank, California, from the Hyperion Studio in Los Angeles.
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Walt Disney Productions issues its first stock.
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Walt Disney Music Company is formed.
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Peter Pan, based on characters created by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie, is released.
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Disneyland, the first Disney park, opened in Anaheim, California, to an invited audience on this day.
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Mary Poppins, the practically perfect tale directed by Robert Stevenson, about a magical English nanny, is released.
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Walt Disney World Resort opens with the Magic Kingdom and two hotels near Orlando, Florida.
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Tokyo Disneyland groundbreaking and site dedication takes place in Urayasu, just outside of Tokyo.
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EPCOT Center, a major undertaking for Disney, costing in the neighborhood of $1 billion, opens at Walt Disney World Resort.
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The Disney Channel begins broadcasting with 18 hours of programming a day.
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Michael Eisner and Frank Wells become chairman/CEO and president of Walt Disney Productions.
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The first Disney Store opens, in Glendale, California.
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Disney-MGM Studios, later renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Pleasure Island open at Walt Disney World Resort.
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Hyperion Books, a Disney publishing company, releases its first book, Amazing Grace
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Euro Disneyland, the first Disney theme park in Europe, which was later renamed Disneyland Paris, opens.
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The Lion King opens to a limited audience in Los Angeles and New York and nationwide on June 24, 1994.
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Disney agrees to purchase 25 percent of the California Angels baseball team from Gene Autry.
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The Disney Channel begins operation in the UK.
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Disney California Adventure park opens at the Disneyland Resort, in Anaheim, California.
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100th anniversary of Walt Disney’s birth.
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Disney sells the Anaheim Angels.
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Disney acquires the Muppets properties and Bear in the Big Blue House