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Walt Disney was born in Chicago on December 5th.
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Walt Disney enlists in the American Ambulance Corps, part of the Red Cross in 1918.
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Disney and Ub Iwerks form Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists in 1919.
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Disney and Iwerks create the first Mickey Mouse character.
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the Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie opens on November 18
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The Disney animated short The Three Little Pigs wins an Academy Award.
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The first full length animated film, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs releases.
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Disney forms Walt Disney Incorporated to develop ideas for a theme park that would become Disneyland.
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Disneyland opens.
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The Mickey Mouse Club airs. it features cartoons and the Mouseketeers.
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The live action and animated film Mary Poppins premieres in Hollywood and in the following year it earns several Oscars.
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Walt and Roy Disney announce plans to build a theme park in Florida.
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X-rays reveal a tumor on Disney's left lung.
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Disney dies at the age of 65 to lung cancer.
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Disneyworld opens. Roy Disney dedicates the park to his brother.
