Events Arthur Sullivan scores his first operetta Cox and Box The Maple Leaf Forever written by Alexander Muir Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos premieres at the Paris Op?a (March 11) Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-duchesse de G?olstein debuts in Paris at the Th?tre des Vari?? (April 12) Charles Gounod's opera Rom? et Juliette debuts at the Th?tre-Lyrique in Paris (April 27) Georges Bizet's opera La Jolie Fille de Perth premieres at Paris's Th?tre Lyrique (December 26) Top hits "Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss II "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee "Not For Joseph" w.m. Arthur Lloyd Births March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor November 24 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer Deaths December 6 - Giovanni Pacini, composer