10-1-82 EPCOT
Center
Opens at Walt Disney World.
4-15-83 Tokyo
Disneyland
Opens in Japan.
4-18-83 The Disney
Channel
Begins broadcasting on cable TV.
3-9-84 Splash
First Touchstone release.
9-22-84 Michael
Eisner and Frank Wells
Become Chairman and President of
Walt Disney Productions.
TV series first airs.
1-9-87 Star Tours
Opens at Disneyland.
3-28-87 The Disney
Store
First store opens in the Glendale
Galleria, CA.
11-25-87 Three Men
and a Baby
Studio's first film to gross $100
million in the U.S.
6-22-88 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
One of fifteen resorts to open throughout the next decade at Walt Disney World.
5-1-89 Disney-MGM
Studios and Pleasure Island
Open at Walt Disney World.
6-1-89 Typhoon
Lagoon
Opens at Walt Disney World
7-17-89 Splash
Mountain
Opens at Disneyland.
11-15-89 The Little Mermaid
Begins operation.
11-4-90 American Teacher
Awards First broadcast on The Disney
Channel.
5-6-91 The Walt Disney Company joins the Dow Jones Industrial Average
9-17-91 Home Improvement
TV series first airs.
9-26-91 Hyperion
Books
Publishes its first book.
11-13-91 Beauty and
the Beast
Only animated feature to ever be
nominated for Best Picture.
