March 3

Shorts

• 1934 - Playful Pluto

Films

• 1995 - Man of the House
• 2015 - Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast releases in U.S. Theaters.

Theme park happenings

• 1995 - Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye opens at Disneyland to an invitation-only event.

Television

• 1963 - A Square Peg in a Round Hole, part of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color premieres on NBC.
• 1998 - The 101 Dalmatians: The Series series finale episode "Dalmatian Vacation, Part 2: Cross-Country Chaos" premieres in syndication. *2001 - The Weekenders episodes "Baskets for Bucks" and "Pru" and the House of Mouse episode "Timon and Pumbaa" premiere on ABC.
• 2006 - The Emperor's New School premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "The Lost Kids/The Big Fight".
• 2007 - The Kim Possible premiere on Disney Channel with the episode "Grande Size Me".
• 2008 - The Emperor's New School premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Citizen Kronk/The Pajama Llama Dilemma".
• 2012 - The Phineas and Ferb episode "Perry the Actorpus" premiere on Disney XD, and later in the day, Disney Channel.

Laserdisc releases

• 1995 - The Lion King
• 1998 - Peter Pan

VHS & DVD releases

• 1995 - The Lion King
• 1998
  • Peter Pan
  • The Moon-Spinners
• 2009 - Air Bud: Special Edition and Beverly Hills Chihuahua

DVD & Blu-ray releases

• 2009 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua

People

Births

• 1913 - Manuel Gonzales (comics artist)
• 1935 - Eugenia Paul (actress and dancer)
• 1937 - Bobby Driscoll (actor)
• 1958 - Miranda Richardson (actress)
• 1966 - Tone Lōc (rapper and actor)
• 1970 - Julie Bowen (actress)
• 1974 - David Faustino (actor, voice actor, and rapper)
• 1982 - Jessica Biel (actress)
• 1985 - Toby Turner (YouTube personality)
• 1989 - Andrea Brooks (actress)

Deaths

• 1976 - Ray Gilbert (lyricist)
• 1987 - Danny Kaye (actor, singer, dancer, and comedian)
• 1993 - Harper Goff (artist, musician, and actor)
• 1999 - Giovan Battista Carpi (comic book artist)
• 2012 - Ralph McQuarrie (conceptual designer and illustrator)
• 2015 - Zoe Leader (marketing communications director and voice actress)
• 2018
  • David Ogden Stiers (actor, voice actor, and musician)
  • Robert Scheerer (director, producer, screenwriter, singer, dancer, and actor)