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What happened in history on this day: October 15?
On October 15 in ...
- 1923 - Walt Disney receives a telegram from Margaret Winkler, offering to pay US$1500 each for the first six of Disney's Alice films.
- 1925 - M.J. Winkler Productions releases the Alice Comedy film Alice Plays Cupid to theaters.
- 1925 - Animation work begins on the Alice Comedy film Alice on the Farm.
- 1929 - Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Jazz Fool.
- 1932 - United Artists releases the Mickey Mouse film Touchdown Mickey to theaters.
- 1937 - The Mickey Mouse film Clock Cleaners is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear.
- 1943 - The first Figaro film Figaro and Cleo is released to theaters.
- 1948 - The Donald Duck film Soup's On is released. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear.
- 1954 - Disney releases the animated short film Social Lion to theaters.
- 1961 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote.
- 1971 - The cover of Life magazine shows 1500 Disney employees and characters in front of Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World.
- 1990 - Antigua & Barbuda issues ten postage stamps depicting Disney characters in scenes from Charles Dickens books.
- 1990 - Disney announces plans to establish an adult book publishing division.
- 1992 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A banner at an amusement park reads "The Happiest Place on Earth". A lawyer character says that phrase is a registered Disneyland copyright.
- 1996 - Mali issues 29 postage stamps depicting Disney characters and letters of the alphabet.
- 1996 - Walt Disney Home Video releases James and the Giant Peach to the home video market.
- 1998 - Guyana issues eleven postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of Scrooge McDuck, depicting comic strip panels of Donald Duck's Christmas on Bear Mountain, by Carl Banks.
- 1998 - Grenada issues 18 postage stamps depicting Disney Christmas Trains. Characters include Mickey Mouse, Jiminy Cricket, Pluto, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Winnie-the-Pooh and friends.
- 1998 - The Fantasmic! show premieres at the Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World.
- 1999 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film The Straight Story to theaters in the USA.
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