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What happened in history on this day: January 9?
On January 9 in ...
- 1928 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Harem Scarem to theaters.
- 1937 - The Mickey Mouse film Don Donald is released to theaters. Donald Duck stars, without Mickey Mouse. Donna first appears, later renamed Daisy.
- 1938 - Leopold Stokowski conducts an orchestra of 85 musicians over three hours to record the sound track to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Hollywood.
- 1959 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the third "Tales of Texas John Slaughter" episode, Killers from Kansas.
- 1976 - The Disneyana Shop opens on Main Street at Disneyland.
- 1977 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Kit Carson and the Mountain Men, part one.
- 1987 - The Star Tours attraction opens in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. It cost US$32 million to create.
- 1988 - The Disney Channel airs the final Contraption TV show.
- 1994 - The Circle-Vision 360 film American Journeys closes in Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1997 - Michael Eisner signs a new ten-year contract as chairman of Disney. His base salary is US$750,000 per year, plus a bonus tied to the company's financial performance, and he receives stock options for 8 million shares to be exercised between 2003 and 2006. The value of the options is estimated at US$195-771 million.
- 1998 - Disney registers the Internet domain name "go.com" with InterNIC.
- 1999 - Buena Vista generally releases the Touchstone Pictures film A Civil Action to theaters in the USA.
- 1999 - The Horizons pavilion in EPCOT closes.
- 2004 - Disneyland welcomes its 500-millionth guest.
Births on January 9
Deaths on January 9
- 1992 - Death of Claude Coats at age 78; artist at Walt Disney Company 1935-89 for films, displays at Disneyland attractions, named a Disney Legend 1988.
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