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What happened in history on this day: September 20?
On September 20 in ...
- 1925 - Warner's Theater in New York City premieres the Alice Comedy film Alice's Tin Pony.
- 1926 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice's Monkey Business to theaters.
- 1940 - The Donald Duck film Window Cleaners is released to theaters. Pluto also appears.
- 1946 - The Donald Duck film Lighthouse Keeping is released.
- 1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas Walt Disney and 39 others to testify on Communist influence in motion pictures.
- 1959 - Jimmy Starr's Show Business Souvenirs shop in Disneyland closes.
- 1964 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon.
- 1970 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Boy Who Stole the Elephant, part one.
- 1984 - Bass Brothers Enterprises buys more Disney stock, giving them 8.6 percent of the company's shares.
- 1986 - NBC airs the TV special program "Disney's Captain EO Grand Opening", starring Patrick Duffy, Justine Bateman, and the Moody Blues.
- 1987 - The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards an Emmy Award (Outstanding Comedy Series) to the TV show The Golden Girls.
- 1987 - The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards an Emmy Award (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series) to Rue McClanahan for her role in the TV show The Golden Girls.
- 1987 - The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards an Emmy Award (Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series) to Terry Hughes, for the TV show The Golden Girls.
- 1998 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character mentions "microcalifragilistics", a reference to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in Mary Poppins.
- 2001 - The Bass family sells 135 million shares of The Walt Disney Company for about US$2 billion. This quantity of shares represents 6.4 percent of all outstanding shares of the company. Disney buys 50 million of the shares, with Goldman Sachs investment bank buying the other 85 million.
- 2001 - Disney stock drops below US$17 per share, down over 25 percent from its value ten days ago.
- 2004 - The Disney board of directors meets, over three days. They discuss CEO succession, and decide to hire a professional search firm to aid in the search for Michael Eisner's replacement.
- 2005 - The 2005 Disney Legends ceremony is held in Anaheim, California, for Steve Martin and Art Linkletter.
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