Events "After The Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year) Published popular music "After The Ball" w.m. Charles K. Harris "The Bowery" w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow" w.m. Joseph Tabrar "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two") w.m. Harry Dacre "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters "The Holy City" w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams "Molly And I And The Baby" w.m. Harry Kennedy "My Old Dutch" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon" w.m. James Thornton "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" w.m. R. M. Stults Musical theater "Dorothy" London revival "Maid Marian" (retitled version of "Robin Hood") London production "Maid Marian" (sequel to "Robin Hood") Broadway production Opera "I Pagliacci" by Ruggiero Leoncavallo Births January 31 - Eddie Cantor April 12 - Johnny Dodds May 18 - Ezio Pinza, Italian singer and actor July 8 - J. Russell Robinson Deaths