On May 15, 2026:The Origins of a Disney LegendOn May 15, 1928, Plane Crazy—the first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever produced—was shown in a test screening, marking Mickey’s very first appearance before an audience. Though the silent short failed to land a distributor, it paved the way for Steamboat Willie later that year, which turned Mickey into a global icon. Want more origin stories that changed pop culture? Jump in below!

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Catch up on what else went down in history today!Britain and France went to war in 1756 — and the fighting spread to five continents, redrew the colonial map, and planted the seeds of the American Revolution.She fled Communism as a child, earned a doctorate, raised three daughters, and became the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government.The war wasn’t just being fought overseas. In 1942, it arrived at every American gas pump — and the country agreed, mostly, to live with it.

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