It was all started by a mouse...

Dreamer, visionary, pioneer in television, film, travel, magic, moments, Mickey.  

To Walter Elias Disney, who passed on this date in 1966, a man who taught (and is teaching) generations to wish upon a star.

At left, Walt Disney shows Julie, Trisha, Pat and Richard Milhous Nixon (and Art Linkletter in the bubble!) the monorail at Disneyland -- June 1959