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What happened in history on this day: April 6?
On April 6 in ...
- 1931 - The Mickey Mouse film The Castaway is released to theaters.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Live-Action Subjects) for the film Grand Canyon.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Documentary) for the film Ama Girls.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Documentary, Features) for the film White Wilderness.
- 1960 - Disney releases the sixteenth People and Places film, Japan, to theaters.
- 1983 - The Disney-produced TV show Zorro and Son first airs on CBS.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled I-Man.
- 1989 - The Gambia issues ten postage stamps depicting Mickey Mouse through the years.
- 1989 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences appologizes to Disney for unauthorized use of the Snow White character on their televised Academy Awards show, and states that it would not re-use the filmed segment again.
- 1990 - The Blue Ribbon Bakery shop opens on Main Street at Disneyland, in place of the Sunkist Citrus House.
- 1990 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Ernest Goes to Jail to theaters in the US.
- 1991 - The Disney Channel begins airing the animated series Darkwing Duck.
- 1993 - The NBC TV network airs the two-hour movie Miracle Child. The film is based on the novel Miracle at Clement's Pond by Patricia Pendergraft.
- 1994 - Tanzania issues fifteen postage stamps depicting various Disney characters.
- 1997 - The Captain EO film in Tomorrowland at Disneyland closes.
- 2000 - Albania issues four postage stamps depicting Donald Duck.
- 2001 - Albania issues four postage stamps depicting Goofy.
- 2001 - Disney releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Just Visiting to theaters in the USA.
- 2007 - At Disney's Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund donates US$100,000 each to five conservation celebrities: John Cleese, Isabella Rosellini, Wangari Maathai, Ian Douglas-Hamilton, and Jane Goodall.
Births on April 6
Deaths on April 6
- 1979 - Death of Norman Tokar at age 59; director of 31 episodes of Disneyland.
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