March 16

Theatrical releases

Shorts

• 1935 - Mickey's Service Station
• 1945 - Dog Watch
• 1961 - The Saga of Windwagon Smith

Films

• 1961 - The Absent-Minded Professor
• 2011 - Wings of Life (Disneynature)

Television

• 1969 - Part 1 of the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Ride a Northbound Horse" premieres on NBC.
• 1998 - The Bear in the Big Blue House episode "Afraid Not" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
• 2007 - The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "Health and Fitness" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2009 - The Replacements episode "Truth or Daring" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2012
  • The Jake and the Never Land Pirates episode "Mr. Smee's Pet" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Handy Manny episode "St. Patrick's Day" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Let's Bounce" & "Bully Bromance Break Up" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Lab Rats episode "Leo's Jam" premieres on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney XD on March 12).
• 2014
  • The Austin & Ally episode "Critics & Confidence" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Once Upon a Time episode "Witch Hunt" premieres on ABC.
  • The Liv and Maddie episode "Moms-a-Rooney" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The I Didn't Do It episode "Lindylicious" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2015
  • The Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episodes "Defending the Earth/Number One, Number Two" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja episodes "Randy Cunningham's Day Off/Bro-ing Down the House" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Kirby Buckets episode "It's a Brad, Brad, Brad, Brad World" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2016
  • The Star Wars Rebels episode "The Forgotten Droid" premieres on Disney XD.
  • The Kirby Buckets episode "Say Uncle" premieres on Disney XD.
  • The Lab Rats: Elite Force episode "Power Play" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2017 - The Milo Murphy's Law episode "School Dance" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2018
  • The Puppy Dog Pals episode "Luck of the Pug-ish" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Vampirina episodes "Vampirina Ballerina/Treasure Haunters" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Once Upon a Time episode "Knightfall" premieres on ABC.
  • The Stuck in the Middle episode "Stuck with Horrible Helpers" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Principia" premieres on ABC.
  • The Bizaardvark episode "The BFF (Before Frankie Friend)" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2019
  • The Milo Murphy's Law episodes "Freefall/Milo's World" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Bizaardvark episode "A Capella Problems" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Coop & Cami Ask the World episode "Would You Wrather Wreck a Record?" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Big City Greens episodes "Park Pandemonium/Cricket's Biscuits" premiere on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on February 23).
• 2024
  • The Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episodes "Family Matters/The Molecular Level" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Hailey's On It! episodes "Mer-made in Oceanside/Full House (of Bugs)" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2025
  • The Primos episodes "Summer of La Cultura/Summer of Santa Tabi" premiere simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney XD (originally released on Disney+ on March 5).
  • The Hamster & Gretel episodes "No Powers Day/Everybody Loves Main Computer" premiere simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney XD.

Streaming

• 2022
  • The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder episode "Snackland" premieres on Disney+.
  • The first five episodes from the third season of Big City Greens are added to Disney+:
    • "Squashed!"
    • "Boss Life/Papaganda"
    • "Little Buddy/Zen Garden"
    • "No Service/Takened"
    • "Green Greens/Truce Bomb"

Events

• 2023 - Phineas and Ferb co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh has been announced to return for the upcoming revival as executive producer and voice director.

Theme park happenings

• 2002 - Walt Disney Studios Park opens in Paris, France.
• 2016 - The last remaining version of Star Tours closes in the Discoveryland section of Disneyland Paris.

Home video releases

• 1990 - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• 1999
  • From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (Dimension Home Video)
  • The Waterboy (Touchstone Home Video)
  • The Parent Trap
• 2004
  • Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
  • Lizzie McGuire: Starstruck and Totally Crushed
  • Veronica Guerin (Touchstone Home Entertainment)
• 2010 - The Princess and the Frog

People

Births

• 1909 - Don Raye † (songwriter)
• 1911 - Harper Goff † (artist, musician, actor, and designer)
• 1920 - Leo McKern † (actor)
• 1923 - Joyce Carlson † (artist and designer)
• 1926 - Jerry Lewis † (actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter)
• 1949
  • Victor Garber (actor and singer)
  • Erik Estrada (actor and voice actor)
• 1964 - Gore Verbinski (film director, screenwriter, producer, and musician)
• 1967 - Lauren Graham (actress and producer)
• 1971 - Alan Tudyk (actor and voice actor)
• 1986 - Alexandra Daddario (actress and model)
• 1997 - Tyrel Jackson Williams (actor, voice actor, singer, and musician)

Deaths

• 1951 - Webb Smith (animator and writer)
• 2009 - Jack Lawrence (lyricist, composer, songwriter, and musician)
• 2019 - Richard Erdman (actor)