The Walt Disney Company and the French government sign the official agreement to build a Disney theme park resort in Marne-la-Vallée, east of Paris. A new company, Euro Disneyland S.C.A., is created to build and operate the resort. The agreement contains conditions of the project not just for its projected opening in 1992 but far into the future — stipulating a second theme park must be built before 2002 and a third before 2017, for example.

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