October 3

Shorts

 * 1941 - Lend a Paw
 * 1947 - Mickey's Delayed Date

Film

 * 1986 - Tough Guys (Touchstone Pictures)
 * 2008 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua

DVD & VHS Releases

 * 2000 - The Black Cauldron and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
 * 2006 - The Little Mermaid: Platinum Edition

Television

 * 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club premieres on ABC with "Fun with Music Day".
 * 1987 - The Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "Day of the Beevilweevils" premieres on NBC.
 * 1989 - The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "A Lad in a Lamp" premieres in syndication.
 * 1990 - The TaleSpin episode "On a Wing and a Bear" premieres in syndication.
 * 1992 - The Little Mermaid premiere on CBS with the episode "Double Bubble".
 * 1994 - The Aladdin premiere in syndication with the episode "Lost and Founded".
 * 1997 - The 101 Dalmatians: The Series episode "Mall Pups" premieres in syndication.
 * 1998 - The Disney's Doug episode "Quailman VII: Quaildad", the Recess episode "Gus's Last Stand"/"Operation Field Trip", the Pepper Ann episode "An OtterBiography"/"GreenSleeves" and the Hercules episode "Hercules and the Parents Weekend" premiere on ABC.
 * 1999 - The Recess episode "Prickly is Leaving"/"Randall's Friends" premieres on UPN and in syndication.
 * 2000 - The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Gravitina" premieres on UPN and in syndication.
 * 2001 - The Legend of Tarzan episode "Tarzan and the Return of La" premieres on UPN and in syndication
 * 2002 - The Lloyd in Space episode "Big Brother Kurt" premieres on Toon Disney.
 * 2003 - The Kim Possible episode "The Fearless Ferret" premieres on Disney Channel.
 * 2008 - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Mickey's Art Show" premieres on Playhouse Disney, and the Phineas and Ferb episode "One Good Scare Ought To Do It!" and The Suite Life on Deck episode "Broke 'N' Yo-Yo" premiere on Disney Channel.
 * 2010 - The Hannah Montana episode "Hannah's Gonna Get This" and the Jonas L.A. series finale "Band of Brothers" premiere on Disney Channel. My Friends Tigger and Pooh episode "Darby Gets Lemons, Makes Lemonade"/"Dancing With Darby" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
 * 2014 - Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion premieres on the Disney Channel, and the Sofia the First premiere on the Disney Channel with the episode "Ghostly Gala".
 * 2016 - Milo Murphy's Law will premiere on Disney XD.

Theme Parks

 * 1971 - Peter Pan's Flight opens in the Magic Kingdom.
 * 1993 - Expo Robotics closes at Epcot.

Video games

 * 2006 - Disney's The Little Mermaid: Magic in Two Kingdoms is released for Game Boy Advance.

Births

 * 1879 - Warner Oland (actor)
 * 1915 - Anthony Forwood (actor)
 * 1973 - Neve Campbell (actress and voice actress) and Lena Headey (actress)
 * 1982 - Erik von Detten (actor, voice actor)
 * 1984 - Ashlee Simpson (singer-songwriter and actress)

Deaths

 * 1967 - Pinto Colvig (comedian, voice actor)
 * 1994 - Dub Taylor (actor)
 * 2002 - Bruce Paltrow (director and producer)
 * 2003 - Florence Stanley (actress)