Disneyland Opens | On This Day

All right. Let's take a look back in history to 70 years ago today and the opening of 20 amusement attractions on roughly 85 acres of orange and walnut groves out in Anaheim, California. Originally dubbed Mickey Mouse Park, it was officially christened as Disneyland.Now was not the first major theme park in the U.S. It wasn't even the first in California. In fact, that title belongs to Knott's Berry Farm, just about seven miles north in Bueno Park, California. But it was Disneyland that would set the standa ...