Walt Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He was an artist growing up and around the age of 16 he enlisted in the Red Cross, where he served in World War 1 at, where he drove around an ambulance that he customized with his own cartoon characters. When he got back from the war, he started working for as an advertising cartoonist in Kansas, Missouri, but then his work was loved and had been wanted by Universal Studios. After hearing that Universal Studios he moved to California to work and draw for them. He then created a character named Oswald, and then he asked for a raise from them and they didn't want to give it to him, so Walt's brother and him created a studio off of borrowed money, and started drawing characters and making sounds to fit them. After this his company had sky rocketed to the most favorite characters ever. The company was started on October 16, 1923.