January 3

==Television==
*1971 - Part 1 of The Wonderful World of Disney episode "Three Without Fear" premieres on NBC.
*2003 - The Proud Family episode "Hooray for Iesha" premieres on Disney Channel.
*2009 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Piglet's Lost Voice/Funny Rabbit" premiere on Disney Channel.
*2010 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Pooh and Piglet Misplace Their Place/Eeyore's Dark Cloud" and "Porcupine's Missing Flute/Darby's Picture Perfect Day" premiere on Disney Channel.
*2011 - The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Mouseke-Calendar" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
*2014
**The third season of Jake and the Never Land Pirates premieres on Disney Channel with the episodes "Treasure of the Pirate Mummy's Tomb/Mystery of the Missing Treasure!".
**The Mickey Mouse animated short "Flipperboobootosis" premieres on Disney Channel.
*2016 - The second season of Galavant premieres on ABC with the episodes "A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear" and "World's Best Kiss".
*2018 - Grown-ish, a spin-off of ABC's Black-ish, premieres on Freeform.
*2020
**The Muppet Babies episodes "Beaker 2.0/When You Wish Upon a Rizzo" premiere on Disney Channel.
**The Puppy Dog Pals episodes "Chin Up, Pups/The Wind Beneath My Paws" premiere on Disney Channel.
**The T.O.T.S. episodes "Rock-A-Bye Birdie/The Fly-Along" premiere on Disney Channel.
*2021 - The Fancy Nancy episodes "Goodbye, Dolly!/Nancy's Soccer Encore" premiere on Disney Jr.
*2022
**PJ Masks, Spidey and his Amazing Friends, and Gigantosaurus premiere on Disney XD for the first time.
**The Mira, Royal Detective episodes "The Case of the Missing Mystery/Mystery at the Gili Danda Game" premiere on Disney Jr.
*2023 - Will Trent premieres on ABC.
*2024 - The Me & Winnie the Pooh episode "Rainy Day Rainbow Painting" premieres on Disney Jr.
==Streaming==
===Series===
*2020
**The Disney Family Sundays episode "Inside Out: Memory Balls" premieres on Disney+.
**The Encore! episode "Pippin - 1984 - Louisville, KY" premieres on Disney+.
**The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series episode "Opening Night" premieres on Disney+.
**The Marvel's Hero Project episode "Radiant Jayera" premieres on Disney+.
**The One Day at Disney episode "Bob Iger: CEO" premieres on Disney+.
**The Pick of the Litter episode "Training Begins" premieres on Disney+.
**The Pixar: In Real Life episode "Wall-E: Lost and Found" premieres on Disney+.
**The World According to Jeff Goldblum episode "Coffee" premieres on Disney+.
*2024
**The first season of Ishura is released on Star+ in Latin America on Disney+ (Star Hub) in all other regions.
**The tenth season of Ax Men is released on Disney+.
**The sixth season of Snowfall is released on Disney+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
**The seventh and eighth seasons of Forged in Fire are released on Disney+.
**The third season of History's Greatest Mysteries is released on Disney+.
**The twentieth and twenty-first seasons of Modern Marvels are released on Disney+.
**The following Alice's Wonderland Bakery episodes are added to Disney+:
***"A Hat-Bachi Hanukkah/A Snow-Drop Summer"
***"A Dumpling Thing/A Tasteful Game of Croquet"
***"Switcheroo Day/Once in a Wondermoon"
***"Where There's a Whisk, There's a Way/Hats Away!"
***"A Heart-Filled Harmony/Happy Cheshire Day!"
***"Dance of the Cherry Blossoms/Alice and the Carpenter"
****The latter two episodes premiere before their television premieres.
===Shorts===
*2020 - Forky Asks a Question: "What is Cheese?" premieres on Disney+.
==VHS & DVD releases==
*2006
**Disney Sing Along Songs: The Bare Necessities
**Disney Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly!
**Disney Sing Along Songs: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
**Disney Sing Along Songs: Pongo and Perdita
**Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up
**The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories
**Walt Disney's Timeless Tales Volume 3
==Theme park happenings==
*2017 - The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror closed at Disney California Adventure.
==Books==
*2017
**Elena and Naomi's Big Adventure
**Disney Princess Beginnings
**Anna Takes Charge
==People==
===Births===
*1919 - Julius Svendsen † (animator, writer, and story artist)
*1920 - Eric Cleworth † (animator, writer, and director)
*1930 - Robert Loggia † (actor and director)
*1932 - Dabney Coleman † (actor)
*1955 - Hal Rayle (actor and voice actor)
*1956 - Mel Gibson (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
*1969 - Michael Schumacher (retired racing driver)
*1975
**Jason Marsden (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
**Thomas Bangalter (musician)
*1989 - Alex D. Linz (actor and voice actor)
*1996 - Florence Pugh (actress)
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