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What happened in history on this day: April 23?
On April 23 in ...
- 1923 - Virginia Davis' parents sign a contract with Laugh-O-gram Films, giving her 5 percent of receipts from showing the film Alice's Wonderland for starring in the film.
- 1930 - Walt abandons Pat Powers as distributor, agreeing to a US$100,000 settlement to buy back the rights to their cartoon films, and get out of the deal to use the Cinephone system.
- 1943 - The Donald Duck film Fall Out - Fall In is released to theaters.
- 1954 - Disney releases the animated short film Two for the Record to theaters. It combines the short films After You've Gone and All the Cats Join In. They were originally released as part of the film Make Mine Music.
- 1957 - The Midget Autopia ride opens in Fantasyland at Disneyland.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, featuring the 17th "Texas John Slaughter" episode, Frank Clell's in Town.
- 1983 - The Fantasy in the Sky event premieres at Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1990 - Sierra Leone issues twelve postage stamps depicting Disney characters in Sierra Leone.
- 1993 - The Walt Disney Company agrees to set aside 8500 acres in Florida for a wilderness preserve, allowing the company to expand on wetland near Walt Disney World.
- 1993 - Disney releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Indian Summer to theaters in the US.
- 1997 - Disney Online officially launches the Disney Daily Blast Internet Web site. The site provides a hour's worth of new content daily, targeting 3- to 12-year-old viewers. Following a two-week free trial, subscription price is US$4.95 per month.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character says he loves the sea because "there's no... Apple Dumpling Gangs", a reference to the Disney film The Apple Dumpling Gang.
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