18 July 1955 July 17, 2012 Author: Staff The first Disneyland in Anaheim, California opens. Famous Words of Inspiration..."I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter." Dave Barry — Click here for more from Dave Barry Related posts: 12 April 1955 22 June 1990 4 July 1569 22 June 1990 18 July 1984 Categories: History Tags: 18 July, 1955