This Day in Disney History
October 17

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What happened in history on this day: October 17?

On October 17 in ...

  • 1927 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Great Guns to theaters.
  • 1937 - Huey, Dewey, and Louie debut in the Donald Duck color Sunday comic page.
  • 1938 - The first story meeting is held to discuss the Dance of the Hours segment of the film Fantasia.
  • 1956 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled Goofy's Cavalcade of Sports.
  • 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the second "Elfego Baca" episode, Four Down and Five Lives to Go.
  • 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Flight of the White Stallions, part one. This film was released as The Miracle of the White Stallions.
  • 1986 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film The Color of Money to theaters in the US.
  • 1992 - Sotheby's auction house in Los Angeles conducts an auction of animation art associated with the film Beauty and the Beast. All 250 items are sold, for a total of US$1.2 million. A painting of a ballroom scene goes for US$44,000.
  • 2000 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the film Toy Story 2 on videocassette.
  • 2000 - In Hollywood, Don Rickles receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Rickles supplied the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies.
  • 2000 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the Toy Story 2 Pack two-DVD set. It includes films Toy Story and Toy Story 2, plus Pixar films Tin Toy and Luxo Jr..

Births on October 17

  • 1925 - Birth of Jack Wagner in California; actor, radio personality, announcer of many Disneyland attractions since 1970, retired 1991, named Disney Legend 2005.

Deaths on October 17

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