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WALTER ELIAS DISNEY BORN IN CHICAGO ILLINOIS
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He lives most of his life in MO, later moves to Kansas City. He attends an Art Institute in Kansas City.
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Walt graduates Benton high school
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moves to california to open this place with help from his brother
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Walt had helped open this studio in 1920 with a friend~
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Walt hires the first animator, Rollin Hamilton and moves into a small store with a window bearing "Disney Bros. Studio."
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Walt meets Lillian Bounds, hired by the Studios as an inker. Walt recalled "I couldn't afford to pay her, so I married her!"
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He gets married to Lillian Bounds
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Walt renames the studio to the "Walt Disney Studio."
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Most popular chrachter made by disney, it is still very popular today, this mouse sparked Disney's fame.
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Walt develops Mickey Mouse and along with Ub Iwerks creates a new cartoon, "Plane Crazy." Audiences were in love with the mouse.
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"Steamboat Willie" opens at the Colon Theater in New York. Billed as "the first animated cartoon with sound," it gets rave reviews."
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Reaches 1 million members. Walt suffers from a nervous break down
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Herman Kamen, a Kansas City advertising man, signs a contract to represent the Walt Disney Studios. He licenses Lionel Corporation for merchandising Mickey and Minnie toy trains. 253,000 toys were sold in 4 months
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Goofy makes 1st appearance
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Donald Ducks debut in The Wise Little Hen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dowCyaP7I&feature=related
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Lilly gave birth to a daughter, Diane Marie Disney, on December 18, 1933.
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In 1935, opinion polls showed that another cartoon series, Popeye the Sailor, produced by Max Fleischer, was more popular than Mickey Mouse
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The first feature-length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wins an Academy Award.
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Dumbo, Pinocchio and Fantasia movies released.
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Disney animators stage a strike of the Disney Studios
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Wins an Academy Award for Best Song and Best Score for Pinocchio.
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Disney Lands opens!
"To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past...and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America...with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world." -Walt Disney -
during pre-surgery X-rays, doctors at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center across the street from the Disney Studio discovered that Disney—for many years a chain smoker—had an enormous tumor on his left lung.
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He died on December 15, 1966 at 9:30 a.m., ten days after his 65th birthday. He was cremated on December 17, 1966 and his ashes reside at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Roy O. Disney continued to carry out the Florida project, insisting that the name be changed to Walt Disney World in honor of his brother.
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