In his free time, he joined the amateur dramatic group at the Little Theatre in Mumbles, visited the cinema in Uplands, took walks along Swansea Bay, and frequented Swansea's pubs, especially the Antelope and the Mermaid Hotels in Mumbles.

The Little Mermaid proposed putting someone else ’ s well being before one ’ s own dreams.

Starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid, the Disney Renaissance gave new life to the Film Musical.

Since the general animation renaissance headlined by the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, there have been an increasing number of traditional stop motion feature films, despite advancements with computer animation.

* April 25 – Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark ( Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997 ).

* August 23 – The statue of The Little Mermaid is unveiled in Copenhagen.

It bears a similar cultural significance as Copenhagen's Little Mermaid.

The main new works staged by the company have been The Little Mermaid by Anne Boyd ( 1985 ); Metamorphosis by Brian Howard ( 1985 ); Voss by Richard Meale ( 1986 ); Whitsunday by Howard ( 1988 ); Mer de glace by Richard Meale ( 1992 ); The Golem by Larry Sitsky ( 1993 ); The Eighth Wonder by Alan John ( 1995 ); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Richard Mills ( 1999 ); Batavia by Richard Mills ( 2001 ); Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky ( OzOpera 2002 ); Lindy by Moya Henderson ( 2003 ); Madeline Lee by John Haddock ( 2004 ); Bliss ( 2010 ) by Brett Dean.

Many characters from Disney animated films ( such as Aladdin, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and many more ) have appeared on House of Mouse, mostly as patrons and guest star performers.

* The Little Mermaid: Ariel, Eric, Flounder, Sebastian, Ursula, King Triton, Max the sheepdog, Scuttle, and Grimsby.

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote his popular fairy tale " The Little Mermaid " in 1836.

" A large part of the story is told through song and ballet and includes many of Andersen's most famous stories such as The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid.

* Roland Petit-The Prince in " The Little Mermaid " Ballet

* Barrie Chase-Ballerina in " The Little Mermaid " Ballet

* Sylvia Lewis-Ballerina in " The Little Mermaid " Ballet

* The Princess Power Hour ( 2000 – 2007 ): One-hour block featuring episodes of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.

* The Great Toon Weekend Getaway ( 2007 – 2008 ): Five-hour weekend block featuring shows based on Disney movies, such as Aladdin, Timon and Pumbaa, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New School, and Lilo and Stitch: The Series.

There is a copy of the famous Little Mermaid statue from Copenhagen, as well as one featuring the bust of famed Danish fable writer Hans Christian Andersen.

In particular, today's visitors appreciate the Danish windmills, the statues of Hans Christian Andersen and the Little Mermaid, the half-timbered houses, the Danish rural church, the Round Tower as well as Danish music and folk dancing.

* Mother Penguin and Baby Penguin ( The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea )

Disney followed up Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its commercially successful 1988 fully animated feature Oliver & Company with The Little Mermaid, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale with songs by Broadway composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

TV animation also brought many theatrical characters to Saturday morning, including Winnie the Pooh, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

While the film had the misfortune of opening the same day as Disney's The Little Mermaid, it fared much better on home video.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

* The Little Mermaid

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1938 – Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1961 )

* 1998 – Little Plastic Castle

* 1999 – Little Plastic Remixes ( limited distribution )

# Toad the Wet Sprocket – " Little Heaven "

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

* Blue's Big Treasure Hunt ( 1999 ) – Little Miss Muffet ( voice )

* 1863 – Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer ( d. 1935 )

* 1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting " Mary Had a Little Lamb ".

* 1932 – Little Richard, American singer and pianist

* The Little School: www. thelittleschool. org-A Progressive school for ages 3 – 12 in Bellevue, Washington, founded in 1959

* 1958 – Jake Burns, Irish singer ( Stiff Little Fingers )

* 1946 – Richie Hayward, American musician ( Little Feat ) ( d. 2010 )

* 1891 – Ann Little, American actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

* 1948 – Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Little Feat )

* 1942 – Floyd Little, American football player

* 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

* 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1950 – Wayne Nelson, American singer and musician ( Little River Band )

* 1930 – John Little, Scottish footballer

* 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.