Events December 13 - first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in Berlin Published popular music "America The Beautiful" w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward "The Band Played On" w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward "The Belle Of Avenoo A" w.m. Safford Waters "Down In Poverty Row" w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan "A Dream" w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes "It's A Great Big Shame" w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" w.m. Paul Dresser "King Cotton March" m. John Philip Sousa "My Angeline" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "My Best Girl's A New Yorker" w.m. John Stromberg "Put Me Off At Buffalo" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon "Rastus On Parade" w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills "She Was One Of The Early Birds" w.m. T. W. Connor "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton "The Soldiers Of The Queen" w.m. Leslie Stuart "The Streets Of Cairo" w.m. James Thornton "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" w. Walter H. Ford m. John W. Bratton Musical theater An Artist's Model London production Dandy Dick Whittington London production The Shop Girl Broadway production The Tyrolean London production Births January 27 - Buddy De Sylva February 7 - Irving Aaronson March 31 - Lizzy Miles April 23 - Jimmie Noone May 2 - Lorenz Hart, US lyricist Deaths August 6 - George Frederick Root, US composer