Events Scott Joplin publishes "Swipsy Cakewalk" Published popular songs "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Albert Pestalozza "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald DeKoven "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin "Salome" m. William Lorraine "She Is The Belle Of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion Musical theater The Bride Elect Broadway production The Fortune Teller Toronto production The Fortune Teller London production A Greek Slave London production Hurly-Burly Broadway production A Runaway Girl London production A Runaway Girl Broadway production The Skirt Dancer London production Véronique Paris production Births Baby Dodds Zutty Singleton Deaths