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What happened in history on this day: December 1?
On December 1 in ...
- 1924 - M.J. Winkler Productions releases the Alice Comedy film Alice and the Three Bears to theaters.
- 1929 - Disney completes the Silly Symphony film The Merry Dwarfs.
- 1937 - The Mickey Mouse comic strip is censored by the Yugoslavian paper Politika.
- 1937 - Final photography of cels for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is completed.
- 1954 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring A Story of Dogs. The show is a look at the making of Lady and the Tramp, plus a group of Pluto films.
- 1955 - The Maxwell House Coffee House restaurant opens on Town Square at Disneyland.
- 1963 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Pollyanna, part one.
- 1966 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film Follow Me, Boys! to theaters. The film is based on the book God and My Country by Mackinlay Kantor.
- 1967 - The Monsanto House of the Future display at Disneyland closes.
- 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Treasure of San Bosco Reef, part two.
- 1971 - The #4 locomotive, the Roy O. Disney, begins operation in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1974 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Runaway on the Rogue River.
- 1978 - The last episode of the new Mickey Mouse Club TV show airs.
- 1982 - Lesotho issues nine postage stamps depicting scenes from Disney's film The Twelve Days of Christmas.
- 1982 - Turks and Caicos Islands issues ten postage stamps with scenes from Disney's film Mickey's Christmas Carol.
- 1986 - Filming begins on the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- 1988 - Antigua & Barbuda issues 14 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse.
- 1988 - Dominica issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse.
- 1988 - Grenada issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse, depicting various Disney characters at Christmas.
- 1988 - Grenada Grenadines issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse.
- 1988 - Sierra Leone issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse.
- 1988 - The Walt Disney Company announces it will create another movie company, Hollywood Pictures, on February 1. Touchstone Pictures' vice president Richard Mestres is named president of the new company.
- 1988 - The Briar Patch shop opens in Critter Country in Disneyland. This location was formerly the Indian Trading Post.
- 1993 - The Fantasyland Theater in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World shows the film Magic Journeys for the last time.
- 1993 - Disney releases the laserdisc Tales from Avonlea Volume 1 - The Journey Begins for US$30. It includes The Journey Begins and The Proof of the Pudding.
- 1993 - Disney releases the laserdisc Tales from Avonlea Volume 2 - The Gift of Friendship for US$30. It includes The Quarrantine at Alaxander Abraham's and The Materializing of Duncan.
- 1994 - Touchstone Home Video releases the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas on videocassette for US$19.99 and laserdisc for US$29.99.
- 1998 - Palau issues twenty postage stamps depicting characters from A Bug's Life.
- 2001 - The TriceraTop Spin attraction opens in Chester & Hester's DinoRama in Disney's Animal Kingdom.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. An exterminator company is called "A Bug's Death", with a logo that mimics Disney's A Bug's Life film.
- 2003 - Disney re-releases the animated feature film The Lion King to theaters in New Zealand.
- 2003 - Stanley Gold issues a letter of resignation from the Disney board of directors, seconding Roy Disney's call for the removal of Michael Eisner as Chairmain and CEO.
- 2005 - New Zealand issues five postage stamps for the premiere of the Disney film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
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