October 2

Shorts

• 1953 - Football (Now and Then)

Theme park happenings

• 1992 - Splash Mountain opens at Magic Kingdom.
• 1999 - FastPass is first offered at Disneyland Paris.
• 2006 - The Year of a Million Dreams celebration starts.
• 2016 - The Muppets Present… Great Moments in American History opens at Magic Kingdom.

Films

• 1992 - The Mighty Ducks
• 2009 - Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are reissued as a 3-D double feature for two weeks
• 2020 - Death on the Nile (20th Century Fox)

Television

• 1993 - The Little Mermaid premiere on CBS with the "Save the Whale".
• 1999 - The Mickey Mouse Works episode "Pluto Gets the Paper: Bubble Gum/Mickey Tries to Cook/Donald and the Big Nut/Topsy Turvy Town" and the Recess episode "Space Cadet/Stand Up Randall" premiere on ABC.
• 2008 - The Emperor's New School premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Faking the Grade/Eco Kuzco".
• 2016 - The Once Upon a Time episoe "A Bitter Draught" airs on ABC.

VHS & DVD releases

• 2007 - The Jungle Book: 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition

Books

• 2012 - Phineas and Ferb Read-Along Storybook and CD: Platypus Power!, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Art and Creation of Walt Disney's Classic Animated Movie and 5-Minute Marvel Stories

Blu-ray & DVD releases

• 2012 - Cinderella: Diamond Edition, and People Like Us
• 2015 - Avengers: Age of Ultron

Video game releases

• 2014 - Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX (in Japan)

People

Births

• 1950 - Ian McNeice (actor and voice actor)
• 1951 - Sting (musician, singer, songwriter, and actor)
• 1955 - Warren Spector (video game designer, director, writer, producer, and production designer)
• 1956 - Charlie Adler (voice actor and voice director)
• 1962 - Jeff Bennett (voice actor, comedian, and singer)
• 1970 - Kelly Ripa (actress, talk show host, and television producer)
• 1984 - John Morris (actor and voice actor)
• 1986 - Camilla Belle (actress)

Deaths

• 2005
  • Hamilton Camp (singer, songwriter, actor, and voice actor)
  • Nipsey Russell (comedian and actor)
• 2007 - Kōichi Kitamura (Japanese voice actor)
• 2017 - Tom Petty (musician, singer, songwriter, and voice actor)
• 2019 - Alan Zaslove (animator, director, and producer)