Events Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky releases his piano composition Pictures at an Exhibition. Popular music hits "Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe & William Howard Doane "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by Luke Schoolcraft Musical theater Die Fledermaus, Vienna production Die Fledermaus, Berlin production Whittington, London production Births January 29 - Charles E. King, US composer and singer February 20 - Mary Garden, Operatic soprano Deaths