Contents 1 Business 2 Disney Theatrical releases 3 Television 4 Video games 5 Home video releases 5.1 Direct-to-video Releases 5.2 DVD exclusives 6 Theme park happenings 7 Albums 8 People 8.1 Births 8.2 Deaths 9 Comments

Business

• Disney Interactive acquired Saban Interactive.
• Buena Vista Games founded, with Disney Interactive being a children's division of BVG.
• Disney loses the rights to King Louie involving a lawsuit with Gia Prima for not paying royalties, and impersonation of her husband's voice.
• October 24 - Disney purchases Fox Family Worldwide and renames it to ABC Family Worldwide. 17 days later FOX Family became ABC Family.

Disney Theatrical releases

• February 16 - Recess: School's Out is released to positive reviews and becomes a box office success.
• June 8 - Atlantis: The Lost Empire is released to mixed to positive reviews.
• August 3 - The Princess Diaries is released to mixed reviews, but becomes a box office success.
• October 5 - Max Keeble's Big Move is released to negative reviews and becomes a box office bomb.
• November 2 - Monsters, Inc. becomes a box office hit and receives extremely positive reviews.
• Devember 14 - The Other Side of Heaven

Television

• January 11 - House of Mouse premieres on ABC. Buzz Lightyear of Star Command airs its final episode on ABC.
• January 12 - Lizzie McGuire premieres on the Disney Channel.
• February 3 - Lloyd in Space premieres on ABC.
• April 5 - Disney Channel debuts in Brazil.
• April 13 - Hounded, a Disney Channel Original Movie, premieres on the Disney Channel.
• June 8 - Jett Jackson: The Movie, a Disney Channel Original Movie, premieres on the Disney Channel.
• July 13 - The Jeannie Project, a Disney Channel Original Movie, premieres on the Disney Channel.
• September 1 - The Legend of Tarzan premieres on ABC and in syndication
• September 15 - The Proud Family premieres on the Disney Channel
• November 21 - Recess, after five years as one of the most popular shows on ABC's One Saturday Morning, airs its final episode, "Mundy, Mundy/Lost Leader". The show would remain in reruns on ABC until Fall 2004. A direct-to-video epilogue and a direct-to-video prequel are released two years later.
• November 28 - Pepper Ann airs its final episode on UPN.

Video games

• November 14 - Tarzan Untamed for PlayStation 2
• November 15 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Game Boy Color
• November 17 - Tarzan Untamed for GameCube

Home video releases

• January 16 - Pete's Dragon
• January 23 - Disney's The Kid
• January 30 - Dinosaur
• March 20 - The Sword in the Stone, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and Remember the Titans
• April 3 - 102 Dalmatians
• April 10 - The Love Bug (1997)
• May 1 - The Emperor's New Groove
• June 5 - Oliver and Company and So Dear to My Heart
• July 17 - Flash and My Date With the President's Daughter
• August 7 - Recess: School's Out
• September 18 - Principal Takes a Holiday
• October 9 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
• October 23 - Dumbo
• November 17 - Fantasia: Platinum Edition
• December 18 - The Princess Diaries

Direct-to-video Releases

• February 27 - Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
• October- The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other Stories
• November 6 - Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse, Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street, and Santa Who?

DVD exclusives

• December 4 - Walt Disney Treasures Wave 1

Theme park happenings

• January 9 - Downtown Disney opens at the Disneyland Resort.
• January 14 - Collector pins begin to be given out at Disney Parks.
• February 8 - Disney's California Adventure opens at the Disneyland Resort.
• March 28 - The Sorcerer's Hat opens at Disney-MGM Studios and becomes the icon of Disney-MGM Studios replacing the Earful Tower.
• April 1 - The Main Street Electrical Parade ends it's run at the Magic Kingdom.
• April 2 - Spectromagic returns to the Magic Kingdom.
• April 7 - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - Play It! debuts at Disney-MGM Studios.
• April 16 - The Animal Kingdom Lodge opens.
• April 27 - Disneyland's Rocket Rods close.
• May 1 - Animal Kingdom's Countdown to Extinction changes it's name to Dinosaur.
• May 6 - A tree in Disneyland's Frontierland, which had been there since the park opened falls over, injuring 29 people.
• May 12 - Doug Live! closes at Disney-MGM Studios, due to Doug's cancellation from ABC.
• May 24 - The Magic Carpets of Aladdin open at the Magic Kingdom.
• July 4 - Disney's Electrical Parade returns to Disneyland.
• July 27 - Disney Resort Line of the Tokyo Disney Resort began its service.
• September 4 - Tokyo DisneySea opens at the Tokyo Disney Resort.
• September 9 - The Country Bear Jamboree closes at Disneyland.
• September 11 & September 12 - Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World Resort close due to the terrorist attacks in the northeast. Hotels in both resorts remained open.
• September 13 - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It! premieres at Disney's California Adventure to very low crowds due to the terrorist attacks halting travel two days before.
• October 3 - Haunted Mansion Holiday, the seasonal overlay of the Haunted Mansion, opens at Disneyland.
• November 2 - Disney's River Country closes.

Albums

• March 27 - Cruella's Favorite Villain Songs
• May 22 - Atlantis: The Lost Empire

People

Births

• February 21 - Isabella Acres (actress)
• April 15 - Django Marsh (voice actor)

Deaths

• January 8 - Don Brodie (performance model and voice actor)
• January 10 - Jacques Marin (actor)
• February 7 - Dale Evans (writer, movie star actress of B-movie westerns and singer-songwriter)
• May 10 - Deborah Walley (actress)
• May 11 - Douglas Adams (writer, humorist and dramatist)
• June 26 - Paul Berry (stop-motion animator and director)
• July 15 - Ted Berman (animator, director and writer)
• August 4 - Lorenzo Music (actor, writer, television producer and musician)
• September 13 - Dorothy McGuire (actress)
• September 23 - Elton Hayes (British actor and guitarist)
• December 26 - Nigel Hawthorne (actor)
• December 30 - Ray Patterson (animator, producer and director)

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