April 18

Births

 * 1882 - Leopold Stokowski
 * 1930 - Clive Revill
 * 1946 - Hayley Mills
 * 1947 - James Woods
 * 1951 - Bruce Gordon
 * 1954 - Rick Moranis
 * 1961 - Jane Leeves
 * 1984 - America Ferrera

Deaths

 * 1955 - Albert Einstein
 * 1958 - Edward H. Plumb

Animated shorts

 * 1927 - Alice&apos;s Circus Daze
 * 1936 - Three Little Wolves
 * 1941 - Baggage Buster
 * 1953 - The Simple Things

Theatrical Releases

 * 2003 - Holes

Theme Park Happenings

 * 1964 - Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln debuts at the 1964 New York World&apos;s Fair
 * 1969 - Recording sessions for The Haunted Mansion take place
 * 1998 - The Festival of Fools show has it&apos;s last performance at Disneyland
 * 2002 - Chester and Hester&apos;s Dino-Rama opens at Disney&apos;s Animal Kingdom with Primeval Whirl and TriceraTop Spin

Events

 * 1957 - A screen test for Zorro with Guy Williams takes place that lands him the part when Walt Disney sees the results
 * 1983 - The Disney Channel begins broadcasting.
 * 1994 - The stage musical of Beauty and the Beast opens on Broadway

Television

 * 2009 - The Chronicles of Meap, episode 59 of Phineas and Ferb, premieres on Disney XD.