January 3

Television[]

1971 - Part 1 of The Wonderful World of Disney episode "Three Without Fear" premieres on NBC.
2003 - The Proud Family episode "Hooray for Iesha" premieres on Disney Channel.
2009 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Piglet's Lost Voice/Funny Rabbit" premiere on Disney Channel.
2010 - The My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes "Pooh and Piglet Misplace Their Place/Eeyore's Dark Cloud" and "Porcupine's Missing Flute/Darby's Picture Perfect Day" premiere on Disney Channel.
2011 - The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Mouseke-Calendar" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
2014
- The third season of Jake and the Never Land Pirates premieres on Disney Channel with the episodes "Treasure of the Pirate Mummy's Tomb/Mystery of the Missing Treasure!".
- The Mickey Mouse animated short "Flipperboobootosis" premieres on Disney Channel.
2016 - The second season of Galavant premieres on ABC with the episodes "A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear" and "World's Best Kiss".
2018 - grown-ish, a spin-off of ABC's black-ish, premieres on Freeform.
2020
- The Muppet Babies episodes "Beaker 2.0/When You Wish Upon a Rizzo" premiere on Disney Channel.
- The Puppy Dog Pals episodes "Chin Up, Pups/The Wind Beneath My Paws" premiere on Disney Channel.
- The T.O.T.S. episodes "Rock-A-Bye Birdie/The Fly-Along" premiere on Disney Channel.
2021 - The Fancy Nancy episodes "Goodbye, Dolly!/Nancy's Soccer Encore" premiere on Disney Jr.
2022
- PJ Masks, Spidey and his Amazing Friends, and Gigantosaurus premiere on Disney XD for the first time.
- The Mira, Royal Detective episodes "The Case of the Missing Mystery/Mystery at the Gili Danda Game" premiere on Disney Jr.
2023 - Will Trent premieres on ABC.
2024 - The Me & Winnie the Pooh episode "Rainy Day Rainbow Painting" premieres on Disney Jr.
2025 - The Mickey Mouse Funhouse episodes "Quiet Ness/Happy Pal-Entine's Day!" will premiere on Disney Jr.

Streaming[]

Series[]

2020
- The Disney Family Sundays episode "Inside Out: Memory Balls" premieres on Disney+.
- The Encore! episode "Pippin - 1984 - Louisville, KY" premieres on Disney+.
- The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series episode "Opening Night" premieres on Disney+.
- The Marvel's Hero Project episode "Radiant Jayera" premieres on Disney+.
- The One Day at Disney episode "Bob Iger: CEO" premieres on Disney+.
- The Pick of the Litter episode "Training Begins" premieres on Disney+.
- The Pixar: In Real Life episode "Wall-E: Lost and Found" premieres on Disney+.
- The World According to Jeff Goldblum episode "Coffee" premieres on Disney+.
2024
- The first season of Ishura is released on Star+ in Latin America on Disney+ (Star Hub) in all other regions.
- The tenth season of Ax Men is released on Disney+.
- The sixth season of Snowfall is released on Disney+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- The seventh and eighth seasons of Forged in Fire are released on Disney+.
- The third season of History's Greatest Mysteries is released on Disney+.
- The twentieth and twenty-first seasons of Modern Marvels are released on Disney+.
- The following Alice's Wonderland Bakery episodes are added to Disney+:
  - "A Hat-Bachi Hanukkah/A Snow-Drop Summer"
  - "A Dumpling Thing/A Tasteful Game of Croquet"
  - "Switcheroo Day/Once in a Wondermoon"
  - "Where There's a Whisk, There's a Way/Hats Away!"
  - "A Heart-Filled Harmony/Happy Cheshire Day!"
  - "Dance of the Cherry Blossoms/Alice and the Carpenter"
    - The latter two episodes premiere before their television premieres.

Shorts[]

2020 - Forky Asks a Question: "What is Cheese?" premieres on Disney+.

VHS & DVD releases[]

2006
- Disney Sing Along Songs: The Bare Necessities
- Disney Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly!
- Disney Sing Along Songs: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Disney Sing Along Songs: Pongo and Perdita
- Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories

Theme park happenings[]

2017 - The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror closed at Disney California Adventure.

Books[]

2017
- Elena and Naomi's Big Adventure
- Disney Princess Beginnings
- Anna Takes Charge

People[]

Births[]

1919 - Julius Svendsen † (animator, writer, and story artist)
1920 - Eric Cleworth † (animator, writer, and director)
1930 - Robert Loggia † (actor and director)
1932 - Dabney Coleman † (actor)
1955 - Hal Rayle (actor and voice actor)
1956 - Mel Gibson (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
1969
- Michael Schumacher (retired racing driver)
- Angelique Perrin (actress and voice actress)
1975
- Jason Marsden (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
- Thomas Bangalter (musician)
1989 - Alex D. Linz (actor and voice actor)
1996 - Florence Pugh (actress)