February 28

Films

• 1936 - The Prisoner of Shark Island (20th Century Fox)
• 1941 - Murder Among Friends (20th Century Fox)
• 1945 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (20th Century Fox)
• 1960 - Bobbikins (20th Century Fox)
• 1997 - Smilla's Sense of Snow (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• 2014 - Son of God (20th Century Fox)
• 2020 - Wendy (Searchlight Pictures)

Shorts

• 1942 - Pluto, Junior

Television

• 1987 - The Disney Channel Premiere Film, Strange Companions, premieres on Disney Channel.
• 1988 - The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "The Great Honey Pot Robbery" premieres on ABC.
• 1993 - Bonkers premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Trains, Toons and Toon Trains".
• 1995 - The Aladdin episode "The Return of Malcho" premieres in syndication.
• 1997 - Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party is aired on ABC.
• 1998
  • Bug Juice premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Smell" premieres in syndication.
• 2003 - The Lizzie McGuire episode "A Gordo Story" and the That's So Raven episode "The Parties" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2004 - The Lilo and Stich: The Series episode "Drowsy" premieres.
• 2011 - The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bow-Tique" and the Jake and the Never Land Pirates episodes "The Never Bloom!" and "Jake's Starfish Search" premiere.
• 2014
  • The Jake and the Never Land Pirates episodes "Jake's Mega-Mecha Sword", "Tick Tock Trap", and "Hideout…It's Hook" premiere on Disney Junior.
  • The Dog With a Blog episode "Stan Runs Away" premieres on Disney Channel.

Streaming

Series

• 2020
  • Diary of a Future President episode "Foreign Relations" premieres on Disney+.
  • Disney Family Sundays episode "Lion King: Paint Pour Artwork" premieres on Disney+.
  • Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings episode "A Flashy Proposal" premieres on Disney+.
  • Marvel's Hero Project episode "Superior Salvador" premieres on Disney+.
  • One Day at Disney episode "Lupe de Santiago: Seamstress" premieres on Disney+.
  • Shop Class premieres on Disney+ with "Justin's Biggest Fan".
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "A Distant Echo" premieres on Disney+.

VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, & Blu-Ray releases

• 1987 - Sleeping Beauty
• 1996 - Pocahontas
• 2006 - Lady and the Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition was released on DVD
• 2017
  • Doctor Strange
  • Mulan/Mulan II
  • Pocahontas/Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
  • The Princess and the Frog
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Signature Edition and Beauty and the Beast: 25th Anniversary Signature Edition was released on DVD

Events

• 2018 - Disney shut down its Disney Movies Anywhere website and app service platform transferring its Disney digital movie collection library content to the Movies Anywhere website and app service platform.

People

Births

• 1923 - Charles Durning (actor)
• 1943 - Alan F. Horn (chairman of the Walt Disney Studios)
• 1948 - Bernadette Peters (actress, singer, and author)
• 1955 - Gilbert Gottfried (comedian, voice actor, and actor)
• 1956 - Lloyd Sherr (comedian, voice actor, and actor)
• 1957 - John Turturro (actor, writer, and filmmaker)
• 1978 - Geoffrey Arend (actor)
• 1987 - Michelle Horn (actress)
• 1996 - Bobb'e J. Thompson (actor, rapper, and comedian)

Deaths

• 2016 - Jack Lindquist (actor and former president of Disneyland)

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