November 18

**November 18** is known in checkiday.com and daysoftheyear.com as Apple Cider, National Princess, Occult and Mickey Mouse Day.

## Shorts

* 1928 - *Steamboat Willie*, the first Mickey Mouse short to be released, debuts. It is also the date that the Walt Disney Company now recognizes as the official birthday of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse (despite the characters not sharing the same birthday in-universe).

## People

### Births

* 1942 - Susan Sullivan (actress)
* 1948 - Dom Irrera (actor, comedian and voice actor)
* 1952 - Delroy Lindo (actor)
* 1960 - Elizabeth Perkins (actress)
* 1962 - Steve Moore (animator, writer, producer, storyboard artist and director)
* 1968 - Owen Wilson (actor, comedian, producer and voice actor)
* 1981 - Nasim Pedrad (actress and comedian)
* 1982 - Damon Wayans Jr. (actor, screenwriter and comedian)
* 1983 - Robert Kazinsky (actor)
* 1992 - Nathan Kress (actor and director)
* 1998 - Gabriel Dodman (creator of Harmonic Wiki)

### Deaths

* 2002 - James Coburn (actor and voice actor)

## Television

* 1987 - The *DuckTales* episode "Time Teasers" premieres in syndication.
* 1989 - The *Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears* episode "Princess Problems" and *The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* episode "Prize Piglet/Fast Friends" premiere on ABC.
* 1991 - The *Darkwing Duck* episode "Life, the Negaverse, and Everything" premieres in syndication.
* 1993 - The *Bonkers* episode "Toon with No Name" premieres in syndication.
* 1994 - The *Aladdin* episode "Egg-stra Protection" and the *Gargoyles* episode "Deadly Force" premiere in syndication.
* 1995 - The *Aladdin* episode "The Shadow Knows" premieres on CBS.
* 1996 - The *Timon & Pumbaa* episode "Home Is Where the Hog Is" premieres in syndication.
* 1997 - The *Bear in the Big Blue House* episode "Eat, Drink Juice and Be Merry" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
* 1998 - The *Hercules* episode "Hercules and the Twilight of the Gods" premieres in syndication.
* 2000 - The *Teacher's Pet* episode "Bad to the Bone/Always Knock the Postman Twice" and the *Buzz Lightyear of Star Command* episode "Enemy Without a Face" premiere on ABC.
* 2001 - *The Weekenders* episode "Clown/Testing Dixon" premieres on UPN and in syndication.
* 2005 - *Kim Possible* episode "Gorilla Fist" premieres on Disney Channel
* 2006
	+ *American Dragon: Jake Long* premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "The Rotwood Files".
	+ The *W.I.T.C.H.* episode "V is for Victory" premieres.
* 2011 - The *Phineas and Ferb* episode "Lotsa Latkes" premieres on Disney Channel.
* 2012 - *Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess* and the *Dog With a Blog* episode "Wingstan" premiere on Disney Channel.
* 2013 - The *Mickey Mouse* episode "Potatoland" premieres on Disney Channel.
* 2014 - *Mickey's Happy Mousekeday* premieres on Disney Junior.
* 2018 - The *Avengers Assemble* episode "The Good Son" premieres on Disney XD.

## Films

* 1988 - Universal Studios' *The Land Before Time* and Disney's *Oliver & Company* was released to theaters on the same day, but Littlefoot and his friends had beaten Oliver for the Box Office Win.
* 1993 - *Aladdin* was released in Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
* 1994 - *The Lion King* was re-released in theaters in the United States and Canada.
* 1996 - *101 Dalmatians* was premiered in New York.
* 2004 - Warner Bros.' *The Polar Express* was released in Australia.

## Video games

* 1994 - *Animated StoryBook: The Lion King*
* 1998 - *A Bug's Life* is released for PlayStation.
* 2008
	+ *Kingdom Hearts coded*
	+ *Bolt: The Video Game* is released for Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3.
* 2012 - *Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two*

## VHS & DVD releases

* 2003 - *The Santa Clause 2*
* 2008 - *Hannah Montana: Season 1*, *Hannah Montana DVD Game*, *High School Musical DVD Game*, and *WALL•E*
* 2014 - *Frozen: Sing-Along Edition* and *Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Minnie's Winter Bow Show*

## Disney's Theme park happenings

* 2011 - Toy Story Land opens at Hong Kong Disneyland.
* 2016 - PizzeRizzo will open at Disney's Hollywood Studios.