June 22

Theatrical releases

Shorts

• 1931 - The Busy Beavers

Films

• 1949
  • Dumbo (re-release)
  • Saludos Amigos (re-release)
• 1955 - Lady and the Tramp
• 1977 - The Rescuers
• 1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• 2012 - Brave

Television

• 1991 - The Darkwing Duck episode "Getting Antsy" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2001 - The Even Stevens episode "Shutterbugged" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2009
  • Make It or Break It premieres on ABC Family.
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Let's Take a Quiz" and "At the Car Wash" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Zeke and Luther episode "Donut Jockeys" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2012
  • The Doc McStuffins episodes "Get Set to Get Wet/Loud Louie" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The A.N.T. Farm episode "modeling assignmANT" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Jessie episode "A Doll's Outhouse" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Sipping with the Enemy/Tri-State Treasure: Boot of Secrets" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Fish Hooks episode "Oscar is a Playa" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2014
  • The Liv and Maddie episode "BFF-a-Rooney" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The I Didn't Do It episode "In the Doghouse with the White House" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Austin & Ally episode "Hunks & Homecoming" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2015
  • The Star vs. the Forces of Evil episodes "Lobster Claws/Sleep Spells" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The first episode of First Class Chefs premieres in the United Kingdom on Disney Channel.
  • The Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episodes "Totally into Your Body/Fish and Chips" premiere on Disney XD.
• 2016
  • The Jake and the Never Land Pirates episodes "Attack of the Pirate Piranhas/March of the Lava Monsters" premiere on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney Jr. on June 21).
  • The Sheriff Callie's Wild West episodes "Homestead Alone/Where's Our Wishing Well?" premiere on Disney Jr.
• 2018
  • The Big City Greens episodes "Gramma's License/Bear Trapped" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures episodes "Racing Rivals/The Hapless Helpers" premiere on Disney Jr.
  • The Bunk'd episode "Cav'd In" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The PJ Masks episodes "Race Up Mystery Mountain/The Mountain Prisoner" premiere on Disney Jr.
• 2019 - The Doc McStuffins episode "Stuffy's Safari" premieres on Disney Jr.
• 2022
  • Eureka! premieres on Disney Jr. with the episodes "Tusks, Trouble, and All/Absoflutely Fabulous".
  • The Amphibia episodes "The Three Armies/The Beginning of the End" premieres on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on April 30).

Streaming

• 2018 - The second season of Luke Cage begins streaming on Netflix.
• 2022
  • The Ms. Marvel episode "Destined" premieres on Disney+.
  • The last 4 episodes of Amphibia were added to Disney+:
    • "Newts in Tights/Fight or Flight"
    • "The Three Armies/The Beginning of the End"
    • "All In"
    • "The Hardest Thing"

Online

• 2020 - The Random Rings Big City Greens short "Tilly Calls the Future" is released on Disney Channel's YouTube channel.

Character Debuts

• 1955 - Lady, Tramp, Jim Dear, Darling, Jim Jr, Jock, Trusty, Aunt Sarah, Si and Am, Tony and Joe, Rat, Pound Dogs, Mr. Busy, The Stray Dogs
• 1977 - Bernard, Miss Bianca, Penny, Madame Medusa, Mr. Snoops, Brutus and Nero, Orville, Rufus, Chairmouse, Evinrude, Luke, Ellie Mae, Swamp Folk
• 1988 - Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Judge Doom, Benny the Cab, Toon Patrol, Marvin Acme, R.K Maroon, Baby Herman, Baby Herman’s Mother, Dolores, Lt. Santino, Bongo the Gorilla, Toon Bullets, Lena Hyena, Angelo

Theme Parks

• 1985 - Videopolis opens in Fantasyland at Disneyland.

Events

• 1970 - Dave Smith joins the Walt Disney Company, and establishes the Walt Disney Archives, becoming its first Chief Archivist.

VHS and DVD releases

• 1994 - Tombstone
• 2004
  • Bad Santa
  • Badder Santa

Blu-ray releases

• 2018 - Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is released on 4K Blu-Ray in Japan by Walt Disney Japan Co, Ltd.

People

Births

• 1920 - Paul Frees † (actor, voice actor, impressionist, and screenwriter)
• 1935 - Floyd Norman (animator)
• 1936 - Kris Kristofferson † (singer, songwriter, musician, and actor)
• 1941 - Michael Lerner † (actor and voice actor)
• 1947 - David Lander † (actor, voice actor, comedian, composer, and musician)
• 1949 - Meryl Streep (actress)
• 1952 - Graham Greene (actor)
• 1958 - Bruce Campbell (film and television actor, voice actor, director, comedian, writer, producer, and author)
• 1974 - Donald Faison (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
• 1985 - Lindsay Ridgeway (actress)
• 1993 - Gilland Jones (actress)

Deaths

• 1988 - Dennis Day (singer and actor)
• 2008 - George Carlin (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
• 2015 - James Horner (composer, conductor, and orchestrator)