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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois.
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When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the Army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a year to drive an ambulance. He moved back to the U.S. in 1919.
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"In 1925, Disney hired an ink-and-paint artist named Lillian Bounds. After a brief courtship, the couple married."
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"Walt Disney began his first series of fully animated films in 1927, featuring the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. When his distributor appropriated the rights to the character, Disney altered Oswald’s appearance and created a new character that he named Mortimer Mouse; at the urging of his wife, Disney rechristened him Mickey Mouse."
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Mickey’s birthday is November 18 – in honor of the release of his first theatrical film, Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2018/03/disney-parks-celebrate-90-years-of-mickey-mouse-with-the-worlds-biggest-mouse-party/
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Walt and Lillian had two daughters, Diane (born December 1933) and Sharon (adopted in December 1936, born six weeks previously)
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"On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, premiered in Los Angeles. It produced an unimaginable $1.499 million, in spite of the Depression, and won a total of eight Oscars."
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"Throughout the early 1940s, Disney churned out military training films, educational shorts (provided to the U.S. government at cost), and military insignia for over 1,000 different units in the U.S. armed forces (provided free of charge). By 1943 up to 90 percent of the Disney studio’s work was for government agencies."
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Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened on July 17, 1955, in Anaheim, California
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In February 1960, Disney was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars, one for motion pictures and the other for his television work
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Walter Elias Disney dies of lung cancer on December 15, 1966 in Burbank, California at the age of 65.
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