September 12

Films

 * 2001 - Recess: School's Out premieres in the Netherlands as part of the Sea Film Festival.

Television

 * 1987 - The Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears episodes "Too Many Cooks" and "Just a Tad Smarter" premiere on NBC.
 * 1990 - The Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "Friar Tum" and the TaleSpin episode "Time Waits for No Bear" premiere in syndication.
 * 1991 - The Darkwing Duck episode "Apes of Wrath" premieres in syndication.
 * 1992 - The Darkwing Duck season three premiere, "Monsters R Us", and the Goof Troop episode "Uneasy Rider" premiere on ABC and The Little Mermaid premiere on CBS with the episode "The Great Sebastian".
 * 1994 - The Aladdin episode "Getting the Bugs Out" premieres in syndication.
 * 1995 - The Gargoyles episode "The Silver Falcon" premieres in syndication.
 * 1996 - The Quack Pack episode "Need 4 Speed" premieres in syndication.
 * 1997 - The 101 Dalmatians: The Series episode "It's a Swamp Thing/Roll Out the Pork Barrel" premieres in syndication. The Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Time" premieres in syndication.
 * 1998 - The season three premiere of Disney's Doug (Which would be the first time airing with that name and not Brand Spanking New! Doug), "Doug's Older Woman", the season two premieres of Recess and Pepper Ann, "The Break-up/The Hypnotist" and "Quiz Bowl/License to Drive", and the first Hercules episode to air on ABC, "Hercules and the First Day of School" premiere on ABC.
 * 1999 - The season four premiere of Recess, "The First Picture Show/The Big Prank" premieres on UPN and in syndication on the premiere of Disney's One Too. This is the first episode to premiere on UPN and in syndication.
 * 2003 - The That's So Raven episode "If I Only Had a Job" premieres on Disney Channel, and the Kim Possible premiere on the Disney Channel with the episode "Virtu-Ron".
 * 2008 - The Phineas and Ferb episode The Flying Fishmonger premiered on Disney Channel.
 * 2014 - The Dog With a Blog episode "The Kids Find Out Stan Blogs" premieres on Disney Channel.
 * 2015 - The 7D's season one finale premieres on Disney XD.

Theme Park happenings

 * 1986 - Captain EO opens at Epcot.
 * 2005 - The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong opens to public.

Animated shorts

 * 1936 - Donald and Pluto
 * 1941 - Old MacDonald Duck

VHS & DVD releases

 * 2006 - Goal! The Dream Begins (Touchstone Home Entertainment)

Births

 * 1894 - Billy Gilbert (voice actor)
 * 1931 - Ian Holm (voice actor)
 * 1957 - Hans Zimmer (composer)
 * 1957 - Keiko Toda (voice actress)
 * 1973 - Paul Walker (actor)
 * 1981 - Jennifer Hudson (recording artist and actress)
 * 1986 - Emmy Rossum (actress and singer-songwriter)
 * 1995 - Ryan Potter (actor, voice actor and martial artist)
 * 1996 - Colin Ford (actor, voice actor and model)

Deaths

 * 1979 - Les Clark (animator)