Mickey Mouse celebrates his 81st Birthday

November 18, 2009 by Baby Chums  
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Children’s favorite Mickey Mouse is celebrating his birthday today.

mickey_mouseMickey has reached the ripe old age of 81.

Although he had appeared in two separate animated shorts already, November 18, 1928 is widely recognized as Mickey Mouse’s birthday because it was the day Steamboat Willie was released, (Steamboat Willie being the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon with sound).

Just two years later after Steamboat Willie, in 1930 Roy and Walt Disney licensed Mickey-related merchandising. Mickey’s popularity continued to soar, by 1931 membership in the Mickey Mouse Club passed one million people.

By the 1950s, Mickey had had a hold on the world. Mickey had a theme park, a comic strip in the newspaper, and The Mickey Mouse Club.

In honor of his 50th birthday, he became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

As a special celebration, children celebrating their own birthday on the day they visit the Disneyland theme park in California between now and Christmas will get in for free, as the world’s most famous mouse celebrates his 81st year.

Full details here;

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/WhatWillYouCelebrate

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