This Day, That Year – November 18

The first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon, Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie”, was released on this day in 1928.

Did you know that:

• William Tell reputedly shot an apple off his son’s head on this day in 1307
• Richard Outcault’s early comic strip “Origin of a New Species” was published on this day in 1894
• Brooklyn toymaker, Morris Michtom, named the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt on this day in 1902