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2009 Death - Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47

1997 Death - Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51

1993 Event - Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire

1990 Event - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages

1989 Event - Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public

1986 Event - Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking

1980 Event - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000

1977 Event - New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens

1974 Birthday - Nicole Appleton, born in Hamilton, Ontario, singer, 'All Saints' band, albums include, 'Everything's Eventual', 'Studio 1'

1974 Event - 1st quadrophonic studio in U.K. is open by Moody Blues

1966 Birthday - Tracy Byrd, born in Vidor, Texas, Tracy Lynn Byrd, country singer, musician, known for Number One Billboard hit single 'Holdin' Heaven', recorded nine studio albums, 30 hit singles, 11 top ten hits

1964 Birthday - Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts

1963 Birthday - Jason Newsted, born in Battle Creek, Michigan, bassist, Metallica, heavy metal band member, founder of Chophouse Records studio

1961 Birthday - Mike Francis, born in Florence, Italy, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis'

1958 Event - "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV

1956 Event - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One

1954 Birthday - Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown

1954 Event - Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire

1954 Event - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

1946 Birthday - Dawn Steel, born in America, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction'

1942 Birthday - Joop van den Ende, director, Alsmeer Studio

1936 Birthday - Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University

1935 Birthday - Gordon Mumma, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, composer, musician, co-founder, the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1933 Event - Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract

1931 Event - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland

1927 Birthday - Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music

1916 Birthday - Helmut Eder, born in Linz, Austria, composer, studied and later taught at the Linz Conservatory, conducted the Singakademie, founded electronic music studio in Linz in 1959

1916 Birthday - Betty Furness, New York City, actress/consumer activist, Studio 1

1893 Event - 1st movie close-up, of a sneeze, Edison studio, West Orange, New Jersey

1893 Event - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey

1892 Birthday - Jack Warner, U.S. movie studio head, Warner Bros

1857 Event - Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta

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