January 2

==Theatrical releases==
===Shorts===
*1937 - The Worm Turns
==Television==
*1977 - The Wonderful World of Disney episode "The Golden Dog" premieres on NBC.
*1995 - The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show episodes "Weight for Me/The Phantom Mask of the Dark Black Darkness of Black/A Fistful of Foodstamps" premiere.
*1999 - The Bear in the Big Blue House episodes "Wait For Me/Morning Glory" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
*2000 - The PB&J Otter episodes "Gotcha!/The Mysterious Mirror" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
*2004
**The Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Shortstuff" premieres on the Disney Channel.
**The Kim Possible episode "Hidden Talent" premieres on the Disney Channel.
*2010 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Piglet's Wish Upon a Star/Squirrels Will Be Squirrels" and "Lumpy's Downhill Battle/Darby's Squirmy Worms" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
*2011 - Sonny with a Chance airs its final episode "New Girl" on Disney Channel.
*2016
**The Sheriff Callie's Wild West episodes "Peck Gets Fooled/Doc's Runaway Balloon" premiere on Disney Channel.
**The Doc McStuffins episodes "Kirby's Derby/Ticklish Truck" premiere on Disney Channel.
*2017
**The Disney Magic Moments episode "Die beliebtesten Schauspieler" premieres on Disney Channel Germany.
**The Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything finale "The Big City" premieres on Disney XD.
*2019 - The second season of Grown-ish premieres on Freeform.
*2023
**The Bunk'd episodes "Hope You Geyser Ready to Go!" and "The Song Remains a Pain" premiere on Disney Channel.
**The Hamster & Gretel two-part special "U.F. UH-OH!" premieres on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on October 8, 2022).
**The Big City Greens episodes "DependaBill/The Delivernator" premieres on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on July 16, 2022).
==Streaming==
*2024 - The Percy Jackson and the Olympians episode "I Plunge to My Death" premieres on Disney+.
==DVD & Blu-ray releases==
*2007 - Higglytown Heroes: To The Rescue and Heroes on the Move
*2018
**The Aristocats (Disney Movie Club Exclusive re-release)
**The Fox and the Hound/The Fox and the Hound 2 (Disney Movie Club Exclusive re-release)
**Jungle 2 Jungle: 20th Anniversary Edition (Disney Movie Club Exclusive re-release)
**Snow Dogs (Disney Movie Club Exclusive re-release)
*2022
**Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Disney; 4K/Blu-ray)
==Theme park happenings==
*1977 - Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland closes at Disneyland to make way for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
*1984 - The Astuter Computer Revue at Epcot's CommuniCore closes. It is the first attraction at Epcot to be closed.
*1996 - World of Motion at Epcot closes to make way for Test Track.
*2001 - Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa opens at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
*2019 - Storybook Shoppe closes at Hong Kong Disneyland.
*2022 - Disney's Typhoon Lagoon reopened at Walt Disney World Resort, after being temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak's impact on Florida.
==People==
===Births===
*1898 - Dick Huemer † (animator)
*1936 - Roger Miller † (musician, voice actor, actor, and veteran)
*1938 - Mickie McGowan † (voice actress, casting agent, and ADR director)
*1950 - Gary Morgan (actor)
*1967 - Tia Carrere (actress, voice actress, model, and singer)
*1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
*1971 - Renée Elise Goldsberry (actress, singer, and songwriter)
*1972 - Christopher Lennertz (composer)
*1975 - Dax Shepard (comedian, actor, writer, director, and podcast host)
*1980 - Georgie Kidder (voice actress)
*1983 - Kate Bosworth (actress, model, and singer)
*2003 - Cyrus Arnold (actor and voice actor)
*2010 - Isabella Abiera (actress and voice actress)
===Deaths===
*1986 - Una Merkel (actress)
*2018 - Frank Buxton (actor, voice actor, television writer, author, producer, and television director)
===Miscellaneous===
*1938 - Leopold Stokowski arrives in Los Angeles for a recording session for The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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