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What happened in history on this day: May 20?
On May 20 in ...
- 1938 - The Disney company repays the entire loan accumulated over the past two years for making Snow White.
- 1941 - Walt Disney fires twenty animators, all members of the Screen Cartoonists Guild.
- 1973 - The Tom Sawyer Island attraction opens in Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1973 - The Tom Sawyer Island Rafts attraction opens in Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1973 - The Plaza Swan Boats attraction opens on the hub in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1973 - The Richard F. Irvine Riverboat attraction opens in Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1989 - The Disney Channel airs the final Teen Angel show.
- 1989 - The TV special Disneyland Blast to the Past airs on KHJ-TV in Los Angeles.
- 1991 - The Disney TV special The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic airs.
- 1994 - Buena Vista Home Video releases the Walt Disney Television Animation animated feature film The Return of Jafar on videocassette and laserdisc in the USA.
- The Genie says "It's a small world after all", a reference to Disneyland's It's a Small World attraction.
- The Genie appears as Pinocchio's Jiminy Cricket and says "just let your conscience be your guide".
- The Genie appears as an exterminator from the film Arachnophobia trying to exterminate spiders.
- The Genie says "Bibidy bobidy boo", a reference to Disney's Cinderella film.
- 1995 - The Space Mountain ride at Disneyland Paris is previewed by Annual Passholders.
- 1995 - Disney Cruise Line announces Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. of Italy is awarded the contract to build the first Disney cruise ship.
- 2001 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A log raft ride ends with a photo being taken, exit sign, and souvenir photo area, all references to Disneyland's Splash Mountain attraction.
- 2001 - (to May 21) The ABC TV network airs the 4-hour mini-series Anne Frank.
- 2003 - Disney releases the film Atlantis: Milo's Return on DVD and videocassette.
- 2005 - The ABC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney, featuring The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. One of the ingredients of a stink bomb is "sweat from a walkaround Goofy suit".
- 2008 - Disney releases the film National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets on DVD.
- 2011 - Disney releases the film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to theaters in the US.
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