| 29 May 1941 |
293 Disney employees go on strike. |
| 17 Jul 1955 |
Walt Disney opens Disneyland. |
| 15 Nov 1965 |
Walt Disney holds a press conference in Orlando, Florida at the Cherry Plaza Hotel. He announces that he has purchased a whole lot of land in the area and intends to do interesting things with it. |
| Apr 1983 |
Disney launches The Disney Channel. |
| 16 Sep 1999 |
Disney Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton travels to the Santa Monica pier to meet a 13-year-old girl he was attempting to seduce via an Internet chatroom called "dad&daughtersex." The girl was actually an undercover cop. Disney fires Naughton almost immediately after the news breaks; the executive later pleads guilty to the charge of crossing state lines to have sex with a minor. |