📅 Disneyland opens (1955)
Where: Anaheim, California
Nearby on the globe: Los Angeles City Hall → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: July 17
July 17, 1955: Disneyland opens. On 17 July 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California. It was a theme park where you could walk right into the worlds of animated films. In its centre stands Sleeping Beauty Castle. It happened in Anaheim, California.
✨ More events on this day
- 1850 🔬 In 1850 the bright star Vega became the first star other than the Sun ever to be photographed, using a big telescope at Harvard.
- 1894 🔬 Belgian astronomer and priest Georges Lemaître was born in 1894; he first suggested that the universe began from a single point and has been expanding ever since.
- 1994 🏅 Brazil won its fourth FIFA World Cup in 1994 in California, beating Italy in the first final ever decided by a penalty shoot-out.
🧠 Question of the day
Which castle stands in the middle of Disneyland?
- Sleeping Beauty Castle
- The Ice Queen's Castle
- The Pirate Castle
Show the answer
Answer: Sleeping Beauty Castle
🎂 Landmarks that opened on July 17
Questions
What happened on July 17?
July 17, 1955: Disneyland opens. It happened in Anaheim, California.
Which landmarks opened on July 17?
Olympic Stadium & Montreal Tower (opened 1976).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland