Dave
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June 20
Jun 20, 2012 19:35:27 GMT -5
Post by Dave on Jun 20, 2012 19:35:27 GMT -5
70th anniversary of The Reluctant Dragon
1976 - Walt Disney World's River Country (a water park adjacent to Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground) opens. Inspired by Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, it is Disney's first attempt at a themed water park. Positioned on the shore of Bay Lake near Discovery Island, River Country is filled with rocks and manmade boulders and features water slides and an inner tube river. On this day, U.S. President Gerald Ford's daughter Susan helps with the official opening. (River Country will close in September 2001, due in part to Florida Laws prohibiting the use of natural bodies of water for water park use, but its success will later lead to Disney's Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach.)
1995 - The Walt Disney Company announces plans for a fourth theme park in Florida, (at this time) called Disney's Wild Animal Kingdom. The park is expected to cost $760 million to create. And - The Walt Disney World attraction ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter officially begins operation in Tomorrowland (replacing Flight to the Moon).
2006 - The Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast plays its 5,000th performance! A celebration is held at Planet Hollywood following the 8 PM show.
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