Events February 9 - Premier of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan Song "Happy Birthday To You" by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill first published in the book "Song Stories for the Kindergarten" Published popular music "The Cat Came Back" w.m. Henry S. Miller "December And May" w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine "Do Do My Huckleberry Do" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon "The Fatal Wedding" w. W. H. Windom m. Gussie L. Davis "Good Morning To All" w. Patty Smith Hill m. Mildred J. Hill "I Long To See The Girl I Left Behind" w.m. John T. Kelly "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa "Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey" w.m. May Irwin "Marguerite" by Charles A. White "Oh! Mr Porter" w. Thomas Le Brunn m. George Le Brunn "Private Tommy Atkins" w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter "Say 'Au Revoir', But Not 'Good-Bye'" by Harry Kennedy "Sweet Marie" w. Cy Warman m. Raymond Moore "Two Little Girls In Blue" w.m. Charles Graham "The Volunteer Organist" w. William G. Gray m. Henry Lamb "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" w.m. James M. Black "Zacatecas" by Genaro Codina Musical theater A Gaiety Girl London production Little Christopher Columbus London production A Trip To Chinatown Broadway production Utopia Limited London production Opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini Births February 10 - Jimmie Durante February 15 - Walter Donaldson June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt September 13 - Larry Shields November 8 - Clarence Williams Deaths October 18 - Charles Gounod