July 23: Chuck Jones is fired by Warner Bros. Cartoons after they find out that he secretly worked for a rival cartoon studio, UPA, on the film Gay Purr-ee. Jones will go to establish his own animation studio. [3]
September
September 3: The first episode of Wally Gator is broadcast.[4]
December 1: Carmen Get It!, the final Tom & Jerry cartoon by Gene Deitch, premieres. Deitch failed to produced anymore Tom and Jerry short films for MGM as Chuck Jones would take over production, which returned to Hollywood after five years.[12]
February 22: Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife expert and environmentalist (voice of Trev in Happy Feet), (d. 2006).[19]
^Scheimer, Lou; Mangels, Andy (2012), Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation, Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing, pp. 37–48, ISBN978-1-60549-044-1