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What happened in history on this day: April 30?
On April 30 in ...
- 1927 - Disney ships the 53rd Alice Comedy film, Alice's Medicine Show, to Winkler Pictures.
- 1928 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Ozzie of the Mounted to theaters.
- 1931 - Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Moose Hunt. Pluto also appears, and is first called by name. Pluto speaks for the first and only time in his career.
- 1948 - The Pluto film Bone Bandit is released.
- 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled An Adventure in Art.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled Flash, the Teenage Otter.
- 1969 - Disney shows the 16-mm film Walt Disney World - Phase 1 at a Florida press conference. The film shows the master plan and artists' depictions for Walt Disney World.
- 1976 - Milt Kahl retires from the Disney Company. He worked on animation for 22 Disney short film, and 24 feature films.
- 1981 - Dominica issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of Pluto.
- 1984 - Eastman Kodak ends sponsorship of the Golden Horseshoe Revue show at Disneyland.
- 1984 - The Disney board of directors' compensation committee votes to increase Ron Miller's annual salary from US$375,000 to US$500,000.
- 1989 - The NBC TV network airs a two-hour TV special The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening.
- 1990 - Disney releases the film Goofy's Office Safety Championship for educational use.
- 1990 - Disney releases the film Goofy's Plant Safety Championship for educational use.
- 1991 - Disney and Henson Associates announce an agreement for Disney to use certain Muppet characters. Disney will pay for an 18-month license for two movies at the Disney-MGM Studios, and three years for characters in Walt Disney World.
- 1993 - The Walt Disney Company announces an agreement to acquire Miramax Film Corporation. Disney will acquire Miramax's library of over 200 films.
- 1993 - Disney generally releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Bound by Honor to theaters in the US. It premiered under the title Blood In, Blood Out.
- 1995 - The Beauty and the Beast stage show in Disneyland ends.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Storm clouds form a man's head, who talks to a character, similar to a scene in The Lion King. Then, Mufasa appears in the clouds saying "You must avenge my death, Kimba -- I mean, Simba."
- 1999 - Albania issues four postage stamps depicting Mickey Mouse.
- 1999 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film The Waterboy to theaters in Great Britain.
- 1999 - Activision releases the A Bug's Life video game for the Nintendo 64.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A musical stage play mimics part of Disney's The Lion King, including music.
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