Source: Good News Network
90 years ago today, Mickey Mouse first appeared on the big screen in the animated film Steamboat Willie. The cartoon character drawn—and voiced—by animator Walt Disney eventually became the company’s celebrated mascot.
In this black-and-white 7-minute movie, the first Disney production with synchronized sound, Mickey steers a steamboat down a river, while entertaining his new passenger, Minnie.
WATCH the short film below… (1928)MORE Good News on this Date:
- Five standard continental time zones were instituted by US and Canadian railroads to end the confusion of thousands of local times (1883)
- Latvia declared its independence from Russia–Independence Day (1918)
- The film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, premiered in New York City–and went on to win the Best Picture Oscar (1959)
- Happy 50th Birthday to screenwriter and actor Owen Wilson, best known for his Wes Anderson film roles (as in The Royal Tenenbaums), Wedding Crashers, Night at the Museum, Zoolander, and Midnight in Paris. (1968)
- Spain established a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship (1979)
- The Soviet Union worked with the United States to deliver aid shipments of American wheat to Ethiopia during the famine (1984)
- 50,000 Bulgarians take to the streets demanding political reform (1989)
- Terry Waite, a Christian who was kidnapped after negotiating the release of other British hostages, was finally released by the Islamic Jihad Organization after 1,763 days, the first four years of which were spent…
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