February 28

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 "Toons, Trains, 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.

Laserdisc releases

• 1987 - Sleeping Beauty
• 1996 - Pocahontas

VHS & DVD releases

• 1996 - Pocahontas
• 2006 - Lady and the Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition was released on DVD
• 2017 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Signature Edition and Beauty and the Beast: 25th Anniversary Signature Edition was released on DVD

DVD & Blu-ray releases

• 2017
  • Pocahontas/Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
  • Mulan/Mulan II
  • Doctor Strange
  • The Princess and the Frog

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)
• 1991 - Sarah Bolger (actress)
• 1996 - Bobb'e J. Thompson (actor, rapper, and comedian)

Deaths

• 1987 - Joan Greenwood (actress)
• 2016 - Jack Lindquist (actor and former president of Disneyland)
• 2018 - Harvey Schmidt (composer)