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What happened in history on this day: February 16?
On February 16 in ...
- 1955 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled Cavalcade of Songs.
- 1964 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, part two.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Secret of Boyne Castle, part two.
- 1970 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film It's Tough To Be A Bird for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1981 - Turks and Caicos Islands issues three postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of Pluto.
- 1984 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Mickey's Christmas Carol for an Oscar Award in the category Short Film, Animated.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, two films entitled The Last Electric Knight and Two and Onehalf Dads.
- 1991 - NBC airs the last episode of the Disney TV series The Fanelli Boys.
- 1991 - The stage show Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double-Cross at the Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World gives its last performance.
- 1993 - Walt Disney Records releases the album For Our Children: The Concert.
- 1993 - The Disney Channel airs For Our Children: The Concert.
- 1994 - Disney releases the animated film compilation Winnie the Pooh: Playtime Volume 1 - Detective Tigger / Cowboy Pooh on laserdisc for US$30. It includes The Good, The Bad, and The Tigger, Tigger, Private eye, Rabbit Marks the Spot, The Masked Offender, Sham Pooh, Invasion of the Pooh Snatcher, Eeyore's Tail Tale.
- 1998 - Micronesia issues ten postage stamps depicting Winnie-the-Pooh characters.
- 2001 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film Recess: School's Out to theaters in the USA.
- 2003 - The ABC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Music Man.
- 2004 - Diane Disney Miller sends a letter to the Disney board of directors, expressing her opposition to the Comcast deal. Miller also notes Michael Eisner's unwillingness to identify a successor, suggesting that he be replaced when his contract ends in 2006.
- 2004 - The Disney board unanimously rejects the Comcast deal.
- 2007 - Disney releases the film Bridge to Terabithia to theaters in the USA.
- 2009 - The Disney Channel premieres the Disney Channel Original Movie Dadnapped.
- 2011 - The CBS TV network premieres the ABC Studios / CBS Television Studios TV series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.
- 2012 - The Disney Fantasy cruise ship departs Germany for its transatlantic voyage to Port Canaveral, Florida.
Births on February 16
Deaths on February 16
- 1993 - Death of Sharon Disney of complications from cancer at age 56; daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, co-founder of Retlaw Enterprises, member of Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company.
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