What happened in history on this day: June 30?
On June 30 in ...
- 1931 - The Silly Symphony film The Busy Beavers is released.
- 1939 - The Donald Duck film Sea Scouts is released to theaters. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear.
- 1941 - Disney asks IATSE head Willie Bioff to call a meeting with the strikers that night, to settle the strike. Bioff tells strikers if they sign with IATSE the strike would be settled. Later that day, Bioff is indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of complicity to extort US$500,000 from several studios.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film Hookworm to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film Cleanliness Brings Health to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film Insects as Carriers of Disease to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
- 1950 - RKO Radio Pictures releases the Goofy film Motor Mania to theaters.
- 1959 - Walt and Roy Disney meet with ABC TV head Leonard Goldenson, to try to gain the right to take their TV programming to other networks, or to force ABC out of their contract. No deal can be made. Roy files an antitrust lawsuit.
- 1971 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film The Million Dollar Duck to theaters.
- 1974 - Disneyland hosts a second "Love Bug Day".
- 1978 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film The Cat from Outer Space to theaters. McLean Stevenson has his film debut.
- 1984 - The South Seas Traders shop opens in Adventureland at Disneyland.
- 1986 - The Disney Channel airs Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1988 - The Videopolis Railroad Station opens in Disneyland.
- 1993 - The Walt Disney Company acquires Miramax Film Corporation, making it an autonomous division of Buena Vista Pictures. Cost is US$60 million, plus another US$40 million to assume the debt of Miramax.
- 1995 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Judge Dredd to theaters in the USA.
- 1996 - The Backstage Studios Tour at Disney-MGM Studios is renamed Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tour.
- 1999 - At Lincoln Center, New York, Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra performs.
- 2001 - The Club Buzz - Lightyear's Above the Rest restaurant opens in Tomorrowland in Disneyland.
- 2005 - The US Postal Service releases four postage stamps depicting Disney characters: Mickey Mouse and Pluto, Alice and the Mad Hatter, Ariel and Flounder, and Snow White and Dopey.
- 2014 - The film Captain EO ceases playing at Tokyo Disneyland.
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