April 18

==Theatrical releases==
===Shorts===
*1927 - Alice's Circus Daze
*1932 - Barnyard Olympics
*1936 - Three Little Wolves
*1941 - Baggage Buster
*1947 - Straight Shooters
*1953 - The Simple Things
===Films===
*2003 - Holes
*2014 - Bears
==Television==
*1983 - The Disney Channel begins broadcasting, the following shows premiere:
**Good Morning, Mickey! 
**Mouseterpiece Theater 
**Mousercise 
**EPCOT Magazine 
**Contraption 
**You and Me, Kid 
**Welcome to Pooh Corner
*1993 - The Bonkers episode "Fistful of Anvils" premieres on Disney Channel.
*1998 - Toon Disney is initiated, coinciding with the Disney Channel's 15th birthday.
*2003 - The Proud Family episode "One in a Million" premieres on the Disney Channel.
*2008 - The Little Einsteins episode "The Secret Mystery Prize" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
*2009
**The Special Agent Oso episodes "Dr. Off/License to Dress" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
**The Handy Manny episodes "Arbor Day/Flicker Speaks English" and "Home Sweet Home/Jackie's Old Shed" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
**The Phineas and Ferb episode "The Chronicles of Meap" premieres on Disney XD.
**Yin Yang Yo ends.
*2010
**The Sonny with a Chance episode "High School Miserable" premieres on Disney Channel.
**The Good Luck Charlie episode "The Curious Case of Mr. Dabney" premieres on the Disney Channel. 
*2011
**The Handy Manny episode "The Tools' New Team" premieres on Disney Jr.
**The Zeke and Luther episode "Luther Turns Four" premieres on Disney XD.
*2013 - The Henry Hugglemonster episodes "The Henry Show/Megabouncers" premiere on Disney Jr.
*2016 - The Doc McStuffins episodes "Joni the Pony/Sleepless in Stuffyland" premiere on Disney Channel.
*2017 - The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "No Regrets" premieres on ABC.
*2020
**The DuckTales episode "The Lost Harp of Mervana!" premieres on Disney XD.
**Doc McStuffins airs its series finale, "It's a Hard Doc Life", on Disney Jr.
==Online==
*2020 - The Owl House: Owl Pellets short "Paint Scare!" is released on Disney Channel's YouTube Channel.
==Theme park happenings==
*1964 - Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln debuts at the 1964 New York World's Fair
*1969 - Recording sessions for The Haunted Mansion take place.
*1998 - The Festival of Fools show has its last performance at Disneyland.
*2002 - Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama opens at the "Disney's Animal Kingdom" attraction in Walt Disney World with Primeval Whirl and TriceraTop Spin.
==Events==
*1957 - A "screen test" for Zorro with Guy Williams takes place that lands him the part when Walt Disney sees the results.
*1983 - The Disney Channel begins broadcasting.
*1994 - The stage musical of Beauty and the Beast opens on Broadway.
==Home video releases==
*1989 - Cocktail
*1995
**Mary Poppins (re-issue) (Version 1)
**Dumbo (re-issue) (Version 1)
**Alice in Wonderland (re-issue) (Version 1)
**Robin Hood (re-issue) (Version 1)
**The Sword in the Stone (re-issue) (Version 1)
**Bedknobs and Broomsticks (re-issue) (Version 1)
**Pete's Dragon (re-issue) (Version 1)
**The Three Caballeros (re-issue) (Version 1)
**So Dear to My Heart (re-issue) (Version 1)
*2000 - Tarzan: Collector's Edition
==Character debuts==
*2009 - Meap, Mitch
==People==
===Births===
*1882 - Leopold Stokowski † (conductor)
*1930 - Clive Revill (actor and voice actor)
*1946 - Hayley Mills (actress)
*1947 - James Woods (actor, voice actor, and producer)
*1950 - Kenny Ortega (producer, director, and choreographer)
*1953 - Rick Moranis (actor, comedian, musician, singer, songwriter, screenwriter, and producer)
*1961 - Jane Leeves (actress, comedian, producer, singer, and dancer)
*1963 - Eric McCormack (actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter)
*1967 - Maria Bello (actress and singer)
*1969 - Chris Nee (children's television screenwriter and producer)
*1971 - David Tennant (actor and voice actor)
*1974 - Edgar Wright (actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, and producer)
*1976
**Gavin Creel † (actor, signer, songwriter, and producer)
**Melissa Joan Hart (actress, director, producer, writer, singer, and businesswoman)
*1984 - America Ferrera (actress, voice actress, and producer)
*1987 - Jessica McKenna (actress, voice actress, and comedian)
*1988 - Vanessa Kirby (actress)
*1990 - Britt Robertson (actress)
*1992 - Chloe Bennet (actress and singer)
*1994 - Moisés Arias (actor)
*1995 - Virginia Gardner (actress and model)
===Deaths===
*1955 - Albert Einstein (physicist and scientist)
*1958 - Edward H. Plumb (composer and orchestrator)
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