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What happened in history on this day: April 18?
On April 18 in ...
- 1927 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice's Circus Daze to theaters. This film debuts Lois Hardwick as Alice, the fourth and final actor of the series.
- 1930 - Disney completes the Silly Symphony film Night.
- 1936 - The Silly Symphony film Three Little Wolves is released to theaters.
- 1947 - The Donald Duck film Straight Shooters is released. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear.
- 1953 - The Mickey Mouse film The Simple Things is released. Pluto also appears.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel, a cable-TV network, begins broadcasting, at 7:00 AM, with a show called Good Morning, Mickey. The service runs for 18 hours per day.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the EPCOT Magazine show.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series You and Me, Kid.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series New! Animal World.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series Welcome to Pooh Corner.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series The Scheme of Things.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series Contraption.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the Mousercise show.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the Mouseterpiece Theater show.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing re-runs of the Zorro show.
- 1983 - The Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner opens in World Bazaar at Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1994 - The Beauty and the Beast stage play opens at the Palace Theater in New York.
- 1997 - Disney announces it will acquire Starwave's Family Planet Web site, combining it with Family.com.
- 1997 - Joining of the two halves of the Disney Magic cruise ship is complete.
- 1998 - Disney launches the Toon Disney cable television network.
- 1998 - The name of the Festival of Foods area in Frontierland at Disneyland is changed back to Big Thunder Barbecue.
- 1998 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame show in Frontierland at Disneyland closes.
- 2002 - The Primeval Whirl roller coaster opens in Chester & Hester's Dino-Rama! in DinoLand U.S.A. in Disney's Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
- 2003 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures film Holes to theaters in the US.
- 2010 - The ABC Family Original Movie Beauty and the Briefcase airs.
- 2014 - Disney releases the Disneynature film Bears to theaters in the USA.
Births on April 18
Deaths on April 18
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