February 6

Theatrical releases

Shorts

• 1928 - The Ol' Swimmin' Hole
• 1937 - Magician Mickey
• 1948 - The Big Wash

Films

• 1943 - Saludos Amigos is released in the United States.

Television

• 1959 - Part 5 of the Walt Disney Presents episode "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" premieres on ABC.
• 1972 - Part 1 of The Wonderful World of Disney episode "Justin Morgan Had a Horse" premieres on NBC.
• 1977 - Part 2 of The Wonderful World of Disney episode "Barry of the Great St. Bernard" premieres on NBC.
• 1990 - The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Mind Your Cheese and Q's" premieres in syndication.
• 1991 - The TaleSpin episode "Baloo Thunder" premieres in syndication.
• 1993 - Season two of The Torkelsons, now known at the time as Almost Home, premieres on NBC with "New Moon".
• 1994 - Aladdin premieres as a "preview" on The Disney Channel; the series would begin airing in syndication as part of The Disney Afternoon and on CBS' Saturday morning line-up on September 5.
• 1995
  • The Aladdin episode "Love at First Sprite" premieres in syndication.
  • The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show episodes "Pain in the Brain/Haunt of the Night of Blacker Darkness/Loathsome Dove" premiere in syndication.
• 1996 - The Gargoyles episode "The Hound of Ulster" premieres in syndication.
• 1998
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series premieres in syndication with the episodes "Channels/Un-Lucky".
  • The Boy Meets World episode "Heartbreak Cory" premieres on ABC.
• 1999 - The Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show episode "Honey, the Future's Coming Back to Me" premieres in syndication.
• 2000
  • The fourth season of Pepper Ann premieres on UPN with the episodes "Burn, Hazelnut, Burn/Career Daze".
  • The Recess episodes "Spinelli's Masterpiece/Nobody Doesn't Like T.J." also premiere on UPN.
• 2001 - The Book of Pooh episodes "Don Pooh Xote/Beastly Burden" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
• 2004
  • The That's So Raven episode "Hearts and Minds" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Dave the Barbarian episodes "The Way of the Dave/Beauty and the Zit" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2005
  • The first season of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! ends on Jetix with the episode "Skeleton King".
  • The JoJo's Circus episodes "100 Days and Counting/Hoop Happy" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
• 2008 - The Phineas and Ferb episode "I, Brobot" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2010
  • The Imagination Movers episode "Farmhouse Mouse" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Just Passing Through/Candace's Big Day" premiere on Disney XD.
• 2012 - The Kickin' It episode "Dude, Where's My Sword?" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2014 - The Sheriff Callie's Wild West episodes "Callie Asks for Help/Peck's Trail Mix Mix-Up" premiere on Disney Junior.
• 2015
  • Miles from Tomorrowland premieres on Disney Channel with four episodes: "Runaway Shuttle/Surfin' the Whirlpool", "Ocean in Motion/Explorer Exchange", "Game On/How I Saved My Summer Vacation", and "Journey to the Frozen Planet/Attack of the Flickorax" (the fourth episode originally premiered on the Disney Junior app on January 16).
  • The Dog with a Blog episode "Dog on a Catwalk" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Jessie episode "Four Broke Kids" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Girl Meets World episode "Girl Meets Farkle's Choice" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Phineas and Ferb episode "Doof 101" premieres on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney XD on November 27, 2014).
  • The Wander Over Yonder episodes "The Liar/The Stray" premiere on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney XD on November 7, 2014).
  • The DCOM Bad Hair Day is released on WATCH Disney Channel a week before its airing.
• 2016 - The 7D episodes "Oh Happy Grumpy/Funniest Hair Day" premiere on Disney XD.
• 2017 - The Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Raid the Cave" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2021 - The Big City Greens episodes "Mages & Mazes/Okay Karaoke" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2023
  • The Eureka! episodes "Endless Pots-ibilities/Glooze Blues" premiere on Disney Junior.
  • The Big City Greens episodes "Farmer Remy/Homeward Hound" premiere on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on October 8, 2022).

Online

• 2022 - The Chibi Tiny Tales Valentine's Day short "Doof Falls for Gramma" (Big City Greens x Phineas and Ferb) is released on Disney Channel's YouTube channel.

VHS & DVD releases

• 1991 - Taking Care of Business (Hollywood Pictures Home Video)
• 2007 - Cinderella III: A Twist in Time

Theme park happenings

• 2001 - Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante in Disneyland adopts its current name.
• 2011 - Tortuga Tavern opens up in the Magic Kingdom.
• 2013 - Andy's Toy Box opens at Hong Kong Disneyland.
• 2016 - La Forêt de l'Enchantement: Une aventure musicale Disney at Disneyland Paris has a soft opening.

Albums

• 2006 - The Many Songs of Winnie the Pooh is released.

Events

• 1986 - Walt Disney Productions changes its name to The Walt Disney Company. Its feature animation division is split off into Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Character debuts

• 1996 - Banshee, Cu Chullain, Rory Dugan, Mr. Dugan
• 2004 - Zit
• 2007 - The Queen
• 2010 - Tiana Webber
• 2011 - Arabella Smith
• 2015 - Miles Callisto, Loretta Callisto, Phoebe Callisto, Leo Callisto, M.E.R.C., Stella, Admirals Watson and Crick, Blodger Blopp, Pipp Wimpley, Queen Gemma, Prince Rygan
• 2016 - Witch

People

Births

• 1900 - Ted Osborne † (writer)
• 1911 - Ronald Reagan † (actor, politician, and 40th President of the United States of America)
• 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft † (voice actor and singer)
• 1926 - Walker Edmiston † (actor and voice actor)
• 1931 - Rip Torn † (actor)
• 1934 - Marty Sklar † (Imagineer)
• 1953 - Phil Snyder (actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian, author, animator, musician, singer-songwriter, director, screenwriter, and producer)
• 1957 - Kathy Najimy (actress, voice actress, and comedian)
• 1971 - Brian Stepanek (actor and voice actor)
• 1974 - David Gerstein (comics author, editor, and animation historian)
• 2002 - Shelby Simmons (actress)
• 2012 - Kai Zen (actress and voice actress)

Deaths

• 1962 - Roy Atwell (actor, comedian, and composer)
• 1980 - James Bodrero (storyboard artist, character designer, and illustrator)
• 1994 - Jack Kirby (comic book writer, comic book artist, and comic book editor)
• 2016 - Daniel Gerson (screenwriter and voice actor)

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