February 28

Theatrical releases

Shorts

• 1942 - Pluto Junior

Films

• 2020 - Wendy (Searchlight Pictures)

Television

• 1987 - The Disney Channel Premiere Film, Strange Companions, premieres on Disney Channel.
• 1988 - The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "The Great Honey Pot Robbery" premieres on ABC.
• 1993 - Bonkers premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Trains, Toons and Toon Trains".
• 1995 - The Aladdin episode "The Return of Malcho" premieres in syndication.
• 1997
  • Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party is aired on ABC.
  • The Boy Meets World episode "Uncle Daddy" premieres on ABC.
• 1998
  • Bug Juice premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Smell" premieres in syndication.
• 2003
  • The Lizzie McGuire episode "A Gordo Story" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The That's So Raven episode "The Parties" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2004 - The Lilo and Stich: The Series episode "Drowsy" premieres.
• 2009 - The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Day of the Living Gelatin/Elementary My Dear Stacy" premiere on Disney XD.
• 2011 - The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bow-tique" and the Jake and the Never Land Pirates episodes "The Never Bloom!" and "Jake's Starfish Search" premiere.
• 2014
  • The Jake and the Never Land Pirates episodes "Jake's Mega-Mecha Sword", "Tick Tock Trap", and "Hideout…It's Hook" premiere on Disney Junior.
  • The Dog With a Blog episode "Stan Runs Away" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2020 - The Owl House episode "Lost in Language" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2022 - The Mira, Royal Detective episodes "Mira's Musical Mystery Tour" and "The Case of the Mystery Mehfil" premiere on Disney Junior.

Streaming

Series

• 2020
  • Diary of a Future President episode "Foreign Relations" premieres on Disney+.
  • Disney Family Sundays episode "Lion King: Paint Pour Artwork" premieres on Disney+.
  • Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings episode "A Flashy Proposal" premieres on Disney+.
  • Imagination Movers is added to Disney+.
  • Marvel's Hero Project episode "Superior Salvador" premieres on Disney+.
  • One Day at Disney episode "Lupe de Santiago: Seamstress" premieres on Disney+.
  • Shop Class premieres on Disney+ with "Justin's Biggest Fan".
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "A Distant Echo" premieres on Disney+.

Films

• 2020
  • Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars is added to Disney+.
  • Viking Warrior Women is added to Disney+.

Character debuts

• 2020 - Emira and Edric Blight

Home media releases

• 1987 - Sleeping Beauty
• 1996 - Pocahontas
• 2006 - Lady and the Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition was released on DVD
• 2017
  • Doctor Strange
  • Mulan/Mulan II
  • Pocahontas/Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
  • The Princess and the Frog
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Signature Edition and Beauty and the Beast: 25th Anniversary Signature Edition was released on DVD

Events

• 2018 - Disney shut down its Disney Movies Anywhere website and app service platform transferring its Disney digital movie collection library content to the Movies Anywhere website and app service platform.
• 2022 - Disney would no longer be releasing films in Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine and the unfolding humanitarian crisis.

People

Births

• 1923 - Charles Durning (actor)
• 1948 - Bernadette Peters (actress, singer, and author)
• 1949 - Danny Troob (arranger, orchestrator, musician, and composer)
• 1955 - Gilbert Gottfried (stand-up comedian, voice actor, and actor)
• 1956 - Lloyd Sherr (comedian, voice actor, and actor)
• 1957 - John Turturro (actor, writer, and filmmaker)
• 1986 - Kingsley Ben-Adir (actor)
• 1991 - Sarah Bolger (actress)

Deaths

• 2016 - Jack Lindquist (actor and former president of Disneyland)

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