What happened in history on this day: October 5?
On October 5 in ...
- 1935 - The Silly Symphony film Music Land is released to theaters. Also known as Musicland.
- 1949 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated feature film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad to theaters. The film is also known as simply Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The film was originally titled Two Fabulous Characters, as it comprises two half hour sequences: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willow, and Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
- 1955 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled Tiburon, Sardinia, Morocco, and Icebreakers.
- 1955 - Disney releases the animated feature film Music Land, comprised of four shorts from Make Mine Music and five from Melody Time.
- 1955 - The Disneyland Hotel opens, on a 60-acre site next to Disneyland.
- 1966 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film The Fighting Prince of Donegal to theaters. The film is based on the book Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal by Robert T. Reilly.
- 1975 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Secret of the Pond, part one.
- 1977 - Kikkoman begins sponsering the Adventureland Veranda restaurant in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled Little Spies.
- 1990 - Disney re-releases the film Fantasia to theaters, based on a two-year restoration from original film negatives, with the original soundtrack.
- 1992 - The Walt Disney Story attraction in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World closes.
- 1997 - The ABC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring the two-hour movie Toothless.
- 1997 - Disney releases the film Washington Square in New York City.
- 2001 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film Max Keeble's Big Move to theaters in the USA.
- 2004 - Walt Disney Home Entertainment releases the film Aladdin on DVD in the US. Price is US$29.99.
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