November 17

**November 17** is known in checkiday.com as "The Little Mermaid Day".

	+ Danny DeVito (live-action/voice actor, comedian, director, producer and filmmaker)
	+ Gary Goldman (film producer, director, animator, screenwriter, writer and voice actor)
* 1947 - Will Vinton (animator)
* 1949 - Jon Avnet (director, producer, and screenwriter)
* 1951 - Stephen Root (live-action/voice actor and comedian)
* 1960 - RuPaul (actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer)
* 1964 - Ralph Garman (live-action/voice actor, comedian, and TV & radio host)
* 1965 - Darryl Kurylo (voice actor)
* 1966 - Thomas McHugh (live-action/voice actor)
* 1967 - John Kennedy (puppeteer and puppet builder)
* 1974
	+ Leslie Bibb (actress)
	+ Sarah Paulson (same as above)
* 1976 - Brian T. Delaney (live-action/voice actor)
* 1978
	+ Rachel McAdams (actress)
	+ Tom Ellis (actor)
* 1990 - Shanica Knowles (actress and singer)

### Deaths

* 1985 - Jimmy Ritz (comedian)
* 1989 - Billy Lee (child actor and singer)
* 2012 - Bonnie Lynn Fields (actress and Mouseketeer)
* 2014 - Rokurō Naya (voice actor)
* 2016 - Steve Truglia (stuntman)
* 2017 - Rikard Wolff (live-action/voice actor and singer)

## Television

* 1985 - The Disney Channel Premiere Film, *The Blue Yonder* premieres on Disney Channel.
* 1987 - The *DuckTales* episode "Ducks of the West" premieres in syndication.
* 1989 - The DuckTales episode "The Masked Mallard" and the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "When Mice Were Men" premiere in syndication.
* 1993 - The *Bonkers* episode "The Dimming" premieres in syndication.
* 1994 - The *Aladdin* episode "Night of the Living Mud" premieres in syndication.
* 1995 - The *Timon & Pumbaa* episode "Back Out in the Outback"/"Gabon with the Wind" and the *Bill Nye the Science Guy* episode "Marine Mammals" premiere in syndication.
* 1996 - The *Brotherly Love* episode "Downtown Girl" premieres on The WB.
* 1997
	+ The *Bear in the Big Blue House* episode "A Plant Grows in Bear's House" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
	+ *101 Dalmatians: The Series* premieres in syndication with the episode "The Good-bye Chick".
* 2000 - The *Buzz Lightyear of Star Command* episode "Revenge of the Raenoks" premieres on UPN and in syndication.
* 2003 - *Lilo & Stitch: The Series* premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Elastico".
* 2009 - *My Friends Tigger & Pooh* premieres on Playhouse Disney with the episode "Roo's Pebble in the Pond/Darby's Super Sleuth Surprise".
* 2015
	+ The *Evermoor Chronicles* episode "Drifty" premieres on Disney Channel.
	+ The *Muppets* episode "Too Hot to Handler" premieres on ABC.
* 2017
	+ *The Punisher*  premieres on Netflix.
	+ The *Once Upon a Time* episodes "Eloise Gardener" and "Pretty in Blue" premiere on ABC.

## Movies

* 1989 - Disney's *The Little Mermaid* and MGM & Don Bluth's *All Dogs Go To Heaven* was released on the same day, but Ariel and her friends stand out as the 1989 Box Office winner.
* 2000 - Universal Studios' *How the Grinch Stole Christmas*

## Video games

* 2009
	+ The *Just Dance* Series had begun in North America with the original game released only for the Wii.
	+ *The Princess and the Frog*  is released for Wii and Nintendo DS.
* 2017 - *Star Wars Battlefront II*

## Disney's Theme park happenings

* 2011 - Toy Story Land opens at Hong Kong Disneyland.
* 2015 - Mickey and the Wondrous Book will premiere in the Storybook Theater at Hong Kong Disneyland.