This Day In History: Donald Duck made his film debut on this day in 1934, though a later '40s cartoon stated that his birthday is March 13 1914 (Friday the 13th).
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous, temperamental, and pompous personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002, and has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, and is the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre.
"Fans of Donald know that he’s uncle to the plucky young ducks Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but what of their mother? The fate of Donald’s twin sister—known as Thelma, Della, or Dumbella in various incarnations—has always been a little unclear (as has the boys’ parentage, but that’s a worry for another day), though a Dutch cartoon purports to have an answer: she became an astronaut." Source
Mickey Mouse may be the face of Disney here, but in Europe, specifically the Nordic countries like Sweden, Donald Duck is HUGE. It is a Swedish tradition to watch Donald Duck cartoons at Christmas, and there is even a Donald Duck political Party.
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