January 3

Television

• 1971 - Part 1 of The Wonderful World of Disney episode "Three Without Fear" premieres on NBC.
• 2003 - The Proud Family episode "Hooray for Iesha" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2009 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Piglet's Lost Voice/Funny Rabbit" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2010 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Pooh and Piglet Misplace Their Place/Eeyore's Dark Cloud" and "Porcupine's Missing Flute/Darby's Picture Perfect Day" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2011 - The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Mouseke-Calendar" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
• 2014
  • The third season of Jake and the Never Land Pirates premieres on Disney Channel with the episodes "Treasure of the Pirate Mummy's Tomb/Mystery of the Missing Treasure!".
  • The Mickey Mouse animated short "Flipperboobootosis" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2016 - The second season of Galavant premieres on ABC with the episodes "A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear" and "World's Best Kiss".
• 2018 - Grown-ish, a spin-off of ABC's Black-ish, premieres on Freeform.
• 2020
  • The Muppet Babies episodes "Beaker 2.0/When You Wish Upon a Rizzo" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Puppy Dog Pals episodes "Chin Up, Pups/The Wind Beneath My Paws" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The T.O.T.S. episodes "Rock-A-Bye Birdie/The Fly-Along" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2021 - The Fancy Nancy episodes "Goodbye, Dolly!/Nancy's Soccer Encore" premiere on Disney Jr.
• 2022
  • PJ Masks, Spidey and his Amazing Friends, and Gigantosaurus premiere on Disney XD for the first time.
  • The Mira, Royal Detective episodes "The Case of the Missing Mystery/Mystery at the Gili Danda Game" premiere on Disney Jr.
• 2023 - Will Trent premieres on ABC.
• 2024 - The Me & Winnie the Pooh episode "Rainy Day Rainbow Painting" premieres on Disney Jr.

Streaming

Series

• 2020
  • The Disney Family Sundays episode "Inside Out: Memory Balls" premieres on Disney+.
  • The Encore! episode "Pippin - 1984 - Louisville, KY" premieres on Disney+.
  • The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series episode "Opening Night" premieres on Disney+.
  • The Marvel's Hero Project episode "Radiant Jayera" premieres on Disney+.
  • The One Day at Disney episode "Bob Iger: CEO" premieres on Disney+.
  • The Pick of the Litter episode "Training Begins" premieres on Disney+.
  • The Pixar: In Real Life episode "Wall-E: Lost and Found" premieres on Disney+.
  • The World According to Jeff Goldblum episode "Coffee" premieres on Disney+.
• 2024
  • The first season of Ishura is released on Star+ in Latin America on Disney+ (Star Hub) in all other regions.
  • The tenth season of Ax Men is released on Disney+.
  • The sixth season of Snowfall is released on Disney+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
  • The seventh and eighth seasons of Forged in Fire are released on Disney+.
  • The third season of History's Greatest Mysteries is released on Disney+.
  • The twentieth and twenty-first seasons of Modern Marvels are released on Disney+.
  • The following Alice's Wonderland Bakery episodes are added to Disney+:
    • "A Hat-Bachi Hanukkah/A Snow-Drop Summer"
    • "A Dumpling Thing/A Tasteful Game of Croquet"
    • "Switcheroo Day/Once in a Wondermoon"
    • "Where There's a Whisk, There's a Way/Hats Away!"
    • "A Heart-Filled Harmony/Happy Cheshire Day!"
    • "Dance of the Cherry Blossoms/Alice and the Carpenter"
      • The latter two episodes premiere before their television premieres.

Shorts

• 2020 - Forky Asks a Question: "What is Cheese?" premieres on Disney+.

VHS & DVD releases

• 2006
  • Disney Sing Along Songs: The Bare Necessities
  • Disney Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly!
  • Disney Sing Along Songs: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  • Disney Sing Along Songs: Pongo and Perdita
  • Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories
  • Walt Disney's Timeless Tales Volume 3

Theme park happenings

• 2017 - The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror closed at Disney California Adventure.

Books

• 2017
  • Elena and Naomi's Big Adventure
  • Disney Princess Beginnings
  • Anna Takes Charge

People

Births

• 1919 - Julius Svendsen † (animator, writer, and story artist)
• 1920 - Eric Cleworth † (animator, writer, and director)
• 1930 - Robert Loggia † (actor and director)
• 1932 - Dabney Coleman † (actor)
• 1955 - Hal Rayle (actor and voice actor)
• 1956 - Mel Gibson (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
• 1969 - Michael Schumacher (retired racing driver)
• 1975
  • Jason Marsden (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
  • Thomas Bangalter (musician)
• 1989 - Alex D. Linz (actor and voice actor)
• 1996 - Florence Pugh (actress)