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What happened in history on this day: May 27?
On May 27 in ...
- 1933 - Radio City Music Hall in New York premieres the Silly Symphony film Three Little Pigs. The film cost US$60,000 to produce, but with revenue from merchandising, represents the studio's first profit-making film.
- 1938 - The Silly Symphony film Wynken, Blynken and Nod is released.
- 1941 - Richard Storey, of the Boston banking firm underwriting the studio's public stock offering, and Joseph Rosenberg from the Bank of America meet with Disney. They try unsuccessfully to convince Disney to recognize the Screen Cartoonists Guild.
- 1941 - Walt Disney meets with all staff, saying he would only bargain with a union chosen by majority vote in a secret ballot.
- 1948 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film Melody Time to theaters. It includes the animated films Once Upon a Wintertime, Bumble Boogie, Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot, Blame it on the Samba (with Donald Duck), and Pecos Bill. Cost to produce the film was US$2 million.
- 1962 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Wetback Hound, and a preview of the film Big Red.
- 1965 - The Miami Herald newspaper reports Disney may be one possible buyer of some 30,000 acres 12 miles southwest of Orlando.
- 1977 - The Space Mountain ride is dedicated in Tomorrowland, at Disneyland. Total cost was US$20 million.
- 1987 - The NBC TV network airs An All New Adventure of Disney's Sport Goofy, Featuring Sport Goofy in Soccermania. Several Mickey Mouse and Goofy cartoons are shown, and the Goofy cartoon Sport Goofy in Soccermania debuts.
- 1992 - The Sequoia Lodge hotel opens at Euro Disneyland.
- 1995 - The Casey's Corner shop opens in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Former name was Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner.
- 1996 - The Toy Story Funhouse at Disneyland closes.
- 1999 - Maldives issues 42 postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of Mickey Mouse, depicting Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto.
- 2003 - Disney releases the animated film Recess: All Growed Down on DVD and videocassette.
- 2004 - Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa opens in Walt Disney World.
- 2016 - Disney releases the film Alice Through the Looking Glass in the USA. Three versions are available: regular, 3D, and IMAX.
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