January 19 on Disney History (Part 2)

2010: Eleven-year-old Adam Carr of Tampa, Florida is announced the winner of the Walt Disney Company's "Mission Patch Design Challenge." The contest (a partnership between NASA and Disney) invited elementary school students to design an emblem for the 12-inch Buzz Lightyear's 468- day stay aboard the orbiting International Space Station in 2008. Carr's blue and yellow design features a hand- drawn and colored depiction of the cartoon character soaring forward from the space station as the trail from the STS-124 and STS-128 orbiters that took him to and from space create the patch's border. Adam wins a three-day, two-night vacation to Walt Disney World Resort as well as a special tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. His design will be made into a patch and flown in space.

It is reported that Disney’s first resort in Hawaii has been named Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa. The 21-acre resort, which is scheduled to open in fall of 2011, will have 360 hotel rooms and 481 Disney Vacation Club villas. Aulani means "the place that speaks for the great ones" or "the place that speaks with deep messages."

The Visual Effects Society announces the nominees for the 8th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in over twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Among the nominations - Prep and Landing for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture and Disney's Up Disney/Pixar's for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or a Special. Winners will be announced February 28. Who I Am, the first studio album from Nick Jonas & the Administration, is released on Disney's Hollywood Records. Formed in late 2009 as a side project by Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, the group is named after Nick's interest in the presidency.

2011: The Disney Dream is officially christened at Port Canaveral, Florida. The special ceremony includes a helicopter hoisting a 16-foot "champagne bottle" across the bow of the new ship and a performance by Academy Award and Grammy Award winner Jennifer Hudson (whose career began as a performer on the Disney Wonder ship in 2003). Some 3,000 people witness the Disney Dream ceremony in-person while countless others watch its broadcast live over the Internet. The 4,000-passenger Disney Dream sails its maiden voyage out of Port Canaveral on January 26.

2014: Disneyland hosts the 2014 Tinkerbell Half Marathon, a 13.1-mile race starting in the Disney California Adventure Park at 5 a.m. Melissa Hernandez of Oxnard, California, is the first woman to cross the finish line with a time of 1:25:40. Andrew O'Bannon of Lake Forest, California, leads in the men's category with a time of 1:24:48.

2015: Hollywood Records releases Galavant (Original Soundtrack), an album comprised of songs from the first season of ABC's musical fantasy comedy television series. 2016: Toy Story Pizza Planet Arcade closes at Disney's Hollywood Studios. A combination counter service restaurant and game arcade, it was inspired by Pizza Planet from the first Toy Story film. Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released to Digital HD.

2018: Film executive and producer Allison "Alli" Ivy Shearmur passes away at age 54 in Los Angeles, Califiornia. Representing companies including Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate, her production work involved such films as the live-action remake of Cinderella, and the Star Wars Anthology films Rogue One and Solo.

2021: On the eve of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, Disney World temporarily closes the Hall of Presidents attraction, located at the Magic Kingdom theme park. A notice of the ride’s closure is posted on this Tuesday evening, ahead of Biden’s swearing-in on Wednesday January 20. In keeping with recent tradition, the ride will be refurbished to add an audio-animatronic version of the country’s newly inaugurated president. Whatever the causes, the 2021 atmosphere is not what Disney envisioned when The Hall of Presidents first opened in 1971.

"I know my voice will never die." -Adriana Caselotti (1916-1997) the voice of Snow White