The celebration event was titled as "Mickey's WorldWide Kids Day". This was to play down the age of Mickey (he was turning 65) - Mickey has a birthday but never gets older...

> Journal - November 17, 1993
The Grand Ballroom at the Disneyland Hotel was packed with food, games, movies and kids. This was the start of the Worldwide Kids Day party. These children (about 7000 in number) were brought in from many countries. Many had never been on a plane! That was the first "E" ticket ride for them. Several children were from very "economically challenged" areas. Some didn't even have shoes. Disney gave all these children shirts, shoes and any other clothing that they needed. Quite a special gesture of the Company to do this for these children. At the party, there was everything in the way of food and deserts that anybody could want. It was interesting that some of the children had never had pizza, or soda ("how do you open this can?"...), I'm sure quite overwhelming! I walked around the ballroom and watched the kids experiencing all of the games, food and music. They're eyes really lit up when Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald came into the room. These characters were the idols of many of the children. It was very touching to see the expressions...