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What happened in history on this day: March 14?
On March 14 in ...
- 1935 - Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse daily newspaper comic strip.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film A Historia de José to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. This is Portuguese Reading Film no. 1.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film José Come Bien to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. This is Portuguese Reading Film no. 2.
- 1955 - The first True Life Adventures comic strip panel is published, drawn by George Wheeler, written by Dick Huemer.
- 1956 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the film Stormy the Thoroughbred.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Kilroy, part one.
- 1971 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Hamad and the Pirates, part two.
- 1975 - The film Magic Carpet 'Round the World is last shown at the Circle-Vision 360 theater at Walt Disney World.
- 1976 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Flight of the Grey Wolf, part one.
- 1976 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Flight of the Grey Wolf, part two.
- 1994 - Disney announces a deal had been worked out with the banks co-funding Euro Disney, changing the terms of the debt financing. Banks forgive all interest payments for 16 months, and defer payment of principal for three years. Disney waives payment of annual management fees from the park from 1992 to 1998. Disney forgives US$210 million loan to park, and makes low interest loan to Euro Disney.
- 1994 - The Virginia legislature approves a US$140 million bond issue to pay for highway improvements near the proposed Disney's America theme park site.
- 1994 - The NBC TV network begins airing Disney's Someone Like Me show.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. One of the movies listed at a theater is "Eating Nemo", a reference to the Disney-Pixar film Finding Nemo.
- 2004 - ABC Family airs the Touchstone Televsiion two-hour movie Celeste in the City.
Births on March 14
Deaths on March 14
- 1991 - Death of Howard Ashman at age 40; wrote songs for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
- 1992 - Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood Jr of cancer at age 71; theme park developer, first Disneyland general manager up to opening day, Freedomland U.S.A. in New York 1960-64.
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