1928 – MICKEY MOUSE. 95 years ago, on May 15, 1928, Walt Disney premiered in the United States “Plane Crazy”, the first short film in which the plane appears. Mickey Mousea character that would become an emblem of his company.
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However, Mickey Mouse failed to impress the audience and it took six months for him to achieve success with Steamboat Williethe third short of the character, to which Disney provided his voice until 1947.
For this reason, the character’s birthday is celebrated every November 18, the date Mickey and Minnie made their film debut in that short film.
On its 90th anniversary, the animation giant released a statement about the piece. “In Steamboat WillieMickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse meet when she runs along the banks of the river trying to catch up with Pedro Pata de Palo’s steamboat,” they recalled.
“Ever resourceful, Mickey Mouse finds a way to get her on board even after the ship has left. The two realize an instant connection, and the rest is history,” the official statement explained.
5 fun facts about Mickey and Minnie Mouse
1. Inspired products. His snapshot marked the appearance of a variety of licensed products beginning in the 1930s, from writing pads and watches to clothing and school supplies.
2. The voice behind the voices. The voices of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were originally recorded by Walt Disney himself. Walt played Minnie Mouse for about a year and continued to voice Mickey Mouse until 1946. He occasionally reprized the role in later years.
3. Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mickey Mouse was the first animated character to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The event took place in 1978, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of it. Minnie Mouse, meanwhile, received the same distinction in 2018, on the 90th anniversary of its creation.
4. Multifaceted. Both Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are presented in series, films and shorts with multiple occupations and professions. Mickey Mouse is an actor, musician, conductor, presenter, athlete, teacher, builder, fire chief, farmer, and explorer, among others. Minnie Mouse, for her part, is seen by fans as a singer, dancer, princess, saleswoman, astronaut, cook, fashion designer, and more.
5. Forever in love. Mickey Mouse is forever courting Minnie Mouse as his one great love. The happy, playful, curious and loyal nature of Mickey Mouse combines perfectly with the sweetness, sympathy and kindness of Minnie Mouse, and together they have formed one of the most emblematic couples in popular culture for decades, adored by all generations.
More ephemeris
1874 – WATER AND SEWERS. Work begins on the sewerage and running water system for the city of Buenos Aires, designed by the English engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman, architect of the modern water supply industry in the United Kingdom.
1901 – RIOPLA CLASSIC. The first match between the teams of Argentina and Uruguay is played in Montevideo, a classic of the Río de la Plata that ended with a 3-2 “albiceleste” victory. It was also the first international match played outside the United Kingdom, the cradle of modern football.
1925 – HORACIO GUARANY. The musician, composer and writer Horacio Guarany, winner of the 1985 Konex Platinum Award for the best singer in the history of folklore, was born in the Santa Fe town of Las Garzas. He recorded 56 albums, the first of which was “Horacio Guarany” (1957).
1930 – JUAN C. TABLE. The actor, comedian and screenwriter Juan Carlos Mesa, creator of the television program “Mesa de noticias” and winner of two Martín Fierro awards, was born in the city of Córdoba. He was a scriptwriter for fifteen films and acted in twelve.
1931 – MOUTH JUNIORS. Club Atlético Boca Juniors buys the land next to the General Roca railway on Brandsen and Del Crucero streets (now Enrique del Valle Iberlucea) where it will build its current stadium, “La Bombonera”.
1948 – JUNE DEVANEY. Three-year-old June Anne Devaney, who disappeared from the Queens Park hospital in the English city of the same name, is found murdered, a crime that shocked the world. 40,000 people were fingerprinted to find the killer, who turned out to be 22-year-old Peter Griffiths, arrested just over a year after killing the girl.
2004 – NARCISO I. MINT. At the age of 91, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, an Argentine nationalized Spanish actor and theater director, famous in Spanish-speaking countries for his work in fiction and horror, dies in Madrid. He is the author of the successful television series “El pulpo negro”, “El muñeco maldito” and “El hombre que vuelvo de la muerte”.
2010 – GUSTAVO CERATI. The singer, composer and musician Gustavo Cerati, former leader of the rock band Soda Stereo, suffered a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) when he was celebrating the success of the recital offered shortly before at the Simón Bolívar University, in Caracas.
2022 – FAMILY DAY. The International Day of Families is celebrated, declared in 1993 by the United Nations Organization in order to reflect its importance as a basic unit of society.
Other ephemeris
1811.- Paraguay becomes independent from Spain, being the first South American country to achieve its permanent independence.
1820.- The Congress of Vienna ends, called by the absolutist monarchies to stifle the liberal movements in Europe.
1867.- Maximilian I of Mexico capitulates with his army in Querétaro, after Napoleon III withdrew his support.
1891.- Pope Leo XIII publishes his “Rerum Novarum”, the first social encyclical of the Catholic Church.
1906.- The Spanish Manuel Magariño Castaños founded “El Diario Español” of Montevideo, currently “Dean of the Spanish press in Latin America”, according to its header.
1918.- The first air mail takes place, between Washington and New York.
1931.- Pius XI presents the encyclical “Quadragésimo Anno”, in which he denounces social injustice.
1935.- Inauguration of the Moscow Metro, with a first line of barely 11 kilometers.
1935.- The Belgian cyclist Gustave Deloor wins the first edition of the Vuelta Ciclista a España.
1940.- World War II: the Dutch Army capitulates to the German.
1943.- Dissolution of the Comintern or Communist International, which brought together the communist parties of different countries.
1955.- Fidel Castro is released from the Isla de Pinos prison, now Isla de la Juventud, thanks to the amnesty for political prisoners decreed by Congress.
1957.- The United Kingdom carries out its first experiment with an “H” bomb on Easter Island.
1959.- The film “Nazarín”, by Luis Buñuel, is awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
1963.- Major American Gordon Cooper circles the Earth 22 times aboard the spaceship “Faith VII”.
1974.- Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
1980.- After Tito’s death, the new Yugoslav era begins, with the election of Cvijetin Mijatovich as president of the country.
1981.- François Mitterrand is proclaimed President of the French Republic.
1986.- Edén Pastora, “Commander 0″, abandons the armed struggle against Sandinismo and asks for refuge in Costa Rica.
1988.- The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan after eight years of occupation.
1991.- Edith Cresson is appointed Head of Government in France, becoming the first woman to hold office in that country.
1992.- The President of South Africa, Frederik de Klerk, and the Leader of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, are awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation.
2001.- The Peruvian Congress broadcasts a video that shows how former adviser Vladimiro Montesinos completed the purchase of three MIG-29 planes from Belarus, with the supposed purpose of justifying an eventual invasion of Ecuador.
2003.- The Dominican government assumes control of the media owned by Ramón Báez Figueroa, a businessman arrested for an alleged million-dollar fraud at Banco Intercontinental (Baninter).
2006.- The United States removes Libya from its list of terrorist nations and restores full diplomatic relations, for the first time in 25 years.
2007.- The Government of Colombia denounces that the National Police illegally spied on government officials and opposition politicians, and dismisses the leadership of the entity.
2011.- Several thousand people in Madrid ask for a political and social change, in what would be the germ of the 15M movement.
2012.- François Hollande assumes the French Presidency and appoints Jean-Marc Ayrault as Prime Minister.
2012.- Social indignation in Uruguay at the growing situation of citizen insecurity and requests for a strong hand against crime and the lowering of the criminal age to 16 years.
2013.- American scientists announce the obtaining of stem cells by cloning.
2014.- President Barack Obama inaugurates the museum of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in New York.
2015.- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American terrorist of Chechen origin, is sentenced to death for the Boston Marathon attack in 2013.
2016.- In Colombia, the largest shipment of cocaine in history is seized: eight tons of drugs.
2017.- The journalist and writer Javier Valdez is assassinated in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
2019.- The US president, Donald Trump, prohibits doing business with companies “that may engage in spying”, such as China’s Huawei.
2021.- China makes history by posing a vehicle on Mars, on its first mission to the red planet.
2022.- The National Assembly of Cuba approves a new Penal Code that includes 37 new crimes and prohibits, among other things, the external financing of press media in addition to reinforcing sanctions related to corruption.
BIRTHS
1773.- Klemens Metternich, German diplomat and statesman.
1859.- Pierre Curie, French scientist, P. Nobel Prize in Physics 1903.
1905.- Joseph Cotten, American actor.
1909.- James Mason, British actor.
1914.- Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer. In 1953 he conquered Everest, for the first time together with Edmund Hillary.
1915.- Paul Samuelson, American economist.
1923.- Richard Avedon, American photographer.
1931.- Plácido Arango, Spanish-Mexican businessman.
1937.- Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State.
1953.- Mike Oldfield, British musician.
1987.- Andy Murray, British tennis player.
DEATHS
1886.- Emily Dickinson, American poetess.
1967.- Edward Hopper, American painter.
1986.- Elio de Angelis, Formula 1 driver, Italian.
1994. Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor.
1997.- Gastón Baquero, Cuban poet and writer.
2003.- “Rik” Van Steenbergen, ciclista belga.
2008.- Willis E. Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
2010.- John Sheperd-Barron, Scottish, inventor of the ATM.
2012.- Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer.
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