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What happened in history on this day: October 8?
On October 8 in ...
- 1957 - The Maxwell House Coffee House restaurant at Disneyland closes.
- 1961 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Horsemasters, part two.
- 1975 - Buena Vista releases the film compilation The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures in theaters in the US.
- 1984 - Turks and Caicos Islands issues six postage stamps with scenes from Disney's film The Toy Tinkers.
- 1988 - The NBC TV network debuts the Disney-produced TV show Empty Nest, a spin-off from The Golden Girls.
- 1989 - Disney first offers shares on the Paris Stock Exchange in the Euro Disneyland Holding Company. Priced at US$14 a share, all 42.9 million shares sell out quickly.
- 1991 - The #20 locomotive, the Mississippi, begins operation at Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1992 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A scene shows God ripping off the roof of a house to talk to a character, much like Willie the Giant did in the film Mickey and the Beanstalk.
- 1998 - Buena Vista premieres the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film Mulan in London, England.
- 1999 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film The Hand Behind the Mouse to theaters in the USA.
- 2003 - Mickey's PhilharMagic 3-D film opens in Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 2003 - The fireworks show Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams premieres at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
- 2012 - The Disney XD TV channel premieres the Crash & Bernstein TV series.
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