June 20

Theatrical releases

Shorts

• 1936
  • Moving Day
  • Mickey's Rival
• 1941 - The Nifty Nineties
• 1947 - Clown of the Jungle
• 1953 - Father's Week-End

Films

• 1941 - The Reluctant Dragon
• 1973 - One Little Indian
• 2025 - Elio (Pixar)

Television

• 1998 - The Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Motion" premieres in syndication.
• 2003
  • The That's So Raven episode "A Dog by Any Other Name" premieres on the Disney Channel.
  • The Proud Family episode "Adventures in Bebe Sitting" premieres on the Disney Channel.
• 2005
  • The W.I.T.C.H. episode "The Seal of Phobos" premieres.
  • The JoJo's Circus episode "A Circus Town Wedding" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
• 2008 - The Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock premieres on the Disney Channel.
• 2009 - The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Pete's Beach Blanket Luau" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
• 2010
  • The Sonny with a Chance episode "Falling for the Falls, Part 2" premieres on the Disney Channel.
  • The second and final season of Jonas L.A. premieres on the Disney Channel with the episode "House Party".
• 2011 - The Kickin' It episode "Swords and Magic" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2014
  • The Sheriff Callie's Wild West episodes "Mustache Toby/Doc's Cheatin' Chili" premiere on the Disney Channel.
  • After two weeks being premiered early on the WATCH Disney Jr. app and online, Disney Jr.'s first ever original special Lucky Duck has officially premiered on the Disney Jr. channel at 7:00 p.m., after the airing of Lilo & Stitch.
  • The Jessie episode "Where's Zuri?" premieres on the Disney Channel.
  • The Dog with a Blog episode "Will Sing for Food Truck" premieres on the Disney Channel.
  • The Mickey Mouse animated short "Down the Hatch" premieres on the Disney Channel.
• 2015 - Star Wars Rebels begins its second season with the one hour episode The Siege of Lothal.
• 2016
  • The second season of Miles from Tomorrowland premieres on Disney Jr. with the episodes "Galactech: Captain Miles/The Search for Spot" (it originally premiered on the Disney Jr. app on June 13).
  • The Wander Over Yonder episodes "The Robomechabotatron/The Flower" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Kirby Buckets episode "Call of Doodie" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2018
  • The Big City Greens episodes "Swimming Fool/Tilly's Goat" premiere on the Disney Channel.
  • The Bunk'd episode "Take the Cake" premieres on the Disney Channel.
• 2019
  • The Amphibia episodes "The Domino Effect/Taking Charge" premiere on the Disney Channel.
  • The fourth season of Bunk'd premieres on the Disney Channel with the episode "Who da Boss? Lou da Boss!".
• 2021 - Bless the Harts airs its series finale on FOX.
• 2022 - Mira, Royal Detective airs its series finale "The Big Jalpur Wedding Mystery" on Disney Jr.

Home media

• 1995 - Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
• 2000
  • Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Touchstone Home Video)
  • Fun and Fancy Free and A Goofy Movie are released as part of the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection
• 2006
  • Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
  • Eight Below
• 2017 - Beauty and the Beast
• 2022 - Avatar: The Way of Water

Theme park happenings

• 1976 - Disney's River Country opens at Walt Disney World.
• 1995 - The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter opens in Magic Kingdom.

Events

• The coronation of Queen Victoria occurred on this date in 1837; the events of The Great Mouse Detective occur on the same date in 1897, the Diamond Jubilee of the event.
• 1995 - Plans to launch Disney's Animal Kingdom are announced (The park is known at the time as Disney's Wild Animal Kingdom).

Character debuts

• 1941 - Casey Junior (Technically, since Dumbo didn't come out until October 21)
• 2018 - Benny, Kiki Kitashima

People

Births

• 1909 - Helen Ogger † (ink painter and cartoonist)
• 1928 - Martin Landau † (actor, voice actor, and producer)
• 1940 - John Mahoney † (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
• 1942 - Brian Wilson (musician, singer, singer-songwriter, record producer, and artist)
• 1944 - Cheryl Holdridge † (actress and Mouseketeer)
• 1951 - Tress MacNeille (voice actress and singer)
• 1952 - John Goodman (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
• 1968 - Robert Rodriguez (film director, producer, writer, composer, and special effects specialist)
• 1971 - Josh Lucas (actor)
• 1973 - Noah Z. Jones (animator, illustrator, writer, and voice actor)
• 1999 - Kayla Maisonet (actress and dancer)
• 2011 - Julian Hilliard (actor)