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What happened in history on this day: January 29?
On January 29 in ...
- 1941 - The film Fantasia has its Hollywood premiere.
- 1943 - The Donald Duck film Donald's Tire Trouble is released to theaters.
- 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the film The Littlest Outlaw, part two.
- 1959 - Disney generally releases the live-action short film Grand Canyon to theaters.
- 1959 - Buena Vista premieres Disney's animated feature film Sleeping Beauty at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles, California. It was filmed and released in wide-screen Technirama-70. The film cost US$6 million to make. The film is based on Charles Perrault's version of the story of Sleeping Beauty.
- 1960 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled Wild Burro of the West.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the 14th "Texas John Slaughter" episode, The End of the Trail.
- 1967 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Gallegher Goes West: Tragedy on the Trail.
- 1977 - The NBC TV network airs NBC All-Disney Saturday Night at the Movies featuring A Horse Named Comanche and Wonders of the Water World.
- 1982 - Dominica issues ten postage stamps depicting various Disney characters playing soccer.
- 1987 - Disney announces that it is selling the Arvida real estate company, for US$400 million, to JMB Realty company.
- 1987 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs parade onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in celebration of Disney's highest-ever first quarter (ending December 31) revenues.
- 1996 - Sierra Leone issues eight postage stamps depicting Disney characters as circus performers.
- 1998 - Ghana issues 16 postage stamps depicting Mickey Mouse and friends, including Donald Duck and Goofy.
- 2001 - Disney announces it will close its Go.com Web site, and exit the Web portal market. The stock ceases trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Disney exchanges stock of Go.com for Disney shares.
- 2004 - Pixar CEO Steve Jobs announces that Pixar Animation Studios will end its relationship with The Walt Disney Company and seek a distribution deal with another film studio, following the release of the next two films (The Incredibles, Cars).
- 2004 - Disney announces it will release its first in-house-developed computer-animation film, Chicken Little, in 2005.
- 2010 - At Walt Disney World in Florida, IBM's redesigned "Smarter Planet" exhibit opens in Innoventions of Epcot.
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