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What happened in history on this day: January 28?
On January 28 in ...
- 1932 - Disney releases the Mickey Mouse film The Duck Hunt to theaters.
- 1941 - The Cartoonists Federation holds an open meeting to discuss a plan to serve as the bargaining unit for workers.
- 1944 - The Goofy film How to Be a Sailor is released to theaters.
- 1946 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Three Caballeros for an Oscar Award in the category Sound Recording.
- 1946 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Three Caballeros for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
- 1946 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Donald's Crime for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1962 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Sancho the Homing Steer, part two.
- 1965 - Disney releases the live-action short film A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood to theaters.
- 1965 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film Those Calloways to theaters. The film is based on the book Swiftwater by Paul Annixter.
- 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Pablo and the Dancing Chihuahua, part one.
- 1979 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Shadow of Fear, part one.
- 1980 - The Industrial Bank of Japan announces it and nearly 30 other Japanese banks have agreed to loan money to the Oriental Land Company to build a US$300 million Disney theme park in Tokyo.
- 1982 - Wally Boag gives his last performance at the Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland. He did the show almost continuously since its opening in 1955, putting him in the Guiness Book of Records for the most number of performances of a show, about 40,000.
- 1988 - Groundbreaking for the Dolphin Hotel and Swan Hotel complex begins in Walt Disney World.
- 1997 - The Gambia issues 16 postage stamps depicting scenes from Disney's Monkey King.
- 1997 - Zambia issues twelve postage stamps for the Year of the Ox, depicting Disney characters: Clarabelle Cow, Minnie Mouse, and Mickey Mouse.
- 2005 - The Walt Disney Pictures / Walden Media film Aliens of the Deep is released to large format / IMAX theaters in the USA.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A scene in a prison cell is similar to the one in Disney's Aladdin, where an old man helps a younger man escape out of a loose brick in the wall.
Births on January 28
- 1939 - Birth of Ralph Kwiatkowski [Kent] in Buffalo, New York, USA; Walt Disney Company artist, 1963-2004.
Deaths on January 28
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