Elias worked for the Union Pacific Railroad and married Flora Call on January 1, 1888, in Acron, Florida, just 40 miles north of where Walt Disney World would ultimately be developed.

In January 1920, Disney and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called, " Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists ".

* January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated film, Sleeping Beauty in Beverly Hills.

* January 10 – Roy E. Disney, American film and television executive ( d. 2009 )

This DVD went back in the Disney Vault on January 31, 2009, along with Toy Story 2.

For the recording of The Sorcerer's Apprentice in January 1938, engineers at Disney collaborated with RCA Corporation for using multiple audio channels which allowed any desired dynamic balance to be achieved upon playback.

On January 18, 1939, Stokowski signed an eighteen-month contract with Disney to conduct the remaining pieces with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Reruns were shown on Toon Disney until January 2005.

The company merged its operations with Walt Disney Studios on January 28, 2010, shutting down Miramax's separate New York and Los Angeles offices.

In January 2012, Wizards of Waverly Place ended its run on the channel, becoming Disney Channel's longest-running original series with 106 episodes ( the record for the channel's longest-running series was formerly held by That's So Raven, which ran for 100 episodes ).

Many of the channel's earliest original movies ( particularly those made from 1997 to 2002 ) have seldom been aired by Disney Channel in recent years, except for some holiday-themed movies ; in January 2009, the channel began airing these older original movies on Friday and Saturday nights at 3 am ET / PT ; since June 2010, movies also air on Sundays in late night and since July 2010, the movies start at 2: 30 am ET / PT and some of the late-night weekend movies are aired without promo breaks.

A Disney Channel Original Movie used to air twice in a row on the night of its premiere ; this tradition ended with the January 2006 premiere of High School Musical.

Lizzie McGuire is an American teen sitcom that premiered on the Disney Channel on January 12, 2001 following the premiere of Zenon: The Zequel and ended February 14, 2004.

The show was last seen on January 19, 2007 as part of the Toon Disney Wild Card Stack.

Parks worked with Inara George on a record released in 2008, An Invitation, and they performed two songs together on 8 January 2008 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as part of the program Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City.

It was also at this site were on January 14, 1924, Walt Disney met his future wife Lillian Bounds, an Ink and Paint girl whom he personally hired.

On January 23, 2006, in honor of Michael Eisner's 21-year leadership of the company, the Team Disney building was rededicated as Team Disney-The Michael D. Eisner Building.

On January 7, 2009, Disney Channel aired eight episodes as part of their " Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Louis " marathon to coincide with the July 2, 2007 release of Shia LaBeouf's film Transformers.

Disney married Flora Call on January 1, 1888, in Kismet, Florida, 50 miles from the land on which Walt Disney World would eventually be built and lived for a short time in adjoining Acron, Florida .< ref >

Roy was married to Edna Francis from April 1925 until his death ; their only child Roy Edward Disney, was born on January 10, 1930.

Roy Edward Disney, KCSG ( January 10, 1930 – December 16, 2009 ) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded.

* January 2001-A pipeline feeding gas to Singapore from Indonesia's Natuna field in South China Sea opens.

* January 2-Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa opens at the Disneyland Resort.

January 9: United Nations headquarters opens.

* January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.

* January 29 – Eugene O ' Neill's The Great God Brown opens at the Greenwich Theatre.

* January 6 – A revised and streamlined revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre.

* January 1 – The Trans-Siberian Railway officially opens after its completion on July 21, 1904.

* January 5 – The play The Scarlet Pimpernel opens at the New Theatre in London and begins a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals.

* January 10 – The first section of the London Underground Railway ( Paddington to Farringdon Street ) opens.

* January 6 – The first Montessori school and daycare center for working class children opens in Rome.

* January 26 – The Labor League Conference opens in Sydney, Australia, with plans to form a Federal Labor Party.

* January 29 – The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.

* January 7 – The first American commercial bank ( Bank of North America ) opens.

* January 24 – Edge Hill College opens in Liverpool

* January 20 – The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding ( the barrier opens in 1981 ).

* January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt.

January 15: Aswan Dam opens in Egypt.

* January 9 – The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).

* January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students.

* January 1 – The Covington – Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world.

* January 21 – Opel Motors opens for business.

* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.

* January 22 – The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.

* January 11 – LaGrange College ( now the University of North Alabama ) opens its doors, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.