* Don Philippi obituary

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

Donald " Don " McLean ( born October 2, 1945 ) is an American singer-songwriter.

Gygax left Guidon Games in 1973 and, with Don Kaye as a partner, founded the publishing company Tactical Studies Rules ( later known as TSR, Inc .) in October.

Saint Pius V arranged the forming of the Holy League against the Islamic Turks, as the result of which the Battle of Lepanto ( 7 October 1571 ) was won by the combined fleet under Don John of Austria.

* October 2 – Don McLean, American rock singer-songwriter

* October 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni ( libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ) premieres in the Estates Theatre in Prague.

* October 8 – Baseball pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

* October 12 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer ( b. 1872 )

* October 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.

* October 7 – Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

The opera was first performed on October 29 in Prague under its full title of Il Dissoluto Punito ossia il Don Giovanni Dramma giocoso in due atti.

* October 1 – Alessandro Farnese succeeds Don John as Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands.

* October 1 – Don John of Austria, military leader ( b. 1547 )

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

Tis-sa-ack is also the name of the fourth route on the formation, ascended by Royal Robbins and Don Peterson over eight days in October 1969.

* Don Lancaster's Micro Cookbook ( Sams, October 1982 ).

However, on the night of 28 – 29 October, the Opéra burned to the ground ; the directors, amid other pressing concerns, set Don Rodrigue aside.

When Gary Gygax could not find an established games company willing to publish Dungeons & Dragons, the new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, Gygax and Don Kaye formed Tactical Studies Rules in October 1973.

Warner Bros .' The Better ' Ole, technically similar to Don Juan, followed in October.

Consequently, they fired head coach Bob Hartley on October 17, 2007, with general manager Don Waddell taking over behind the bench on an interim basis.

On 21 October 1991, Sting joined Don Henley and Billy Joel at New York's Madison Square Garden for a benefit rock show, The Concert for Walden Woods.

In October 1968, Brel's L ' Homme de La Mancha ( Man of La Mancha ) premièred in Brussels, with Brel playing Don Quixote and Dario Moreno playing Sancho Panza.

On October 9, 1970, McLain was traded by the Detroit Tigers with Elliott Maddox, Norm McRae and Don Wert to the Washington Senators for Joe Coleman, Eddie Brinkman, Jim Hannan and Aurelio Rodríguez.

However, Don Freeman began the petition and application process that ended on October 6, 1960, in the City's incorporation.

Storekeeper Don H. Elliott became its first postmaster on October 20, 1897.

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

Character-naming in Don Quixote makes ample figural use of contradiction, inversion, and irony, such as the names Rocinante ( a reversal ) and Dulcinea ( an allusion to illusion ), and the word itself, possibly a pun on ( jaw ) but certainly ( Catalan: thighs ), a reference to a horse's rump .< ref > quijote < sup > 1. 2 </ sup >: rump or haunch.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

On June 2, 2008, during an interview at the Danish Komiks. dk fair, Don stated that he would not do any more Disney comics, citing eye troubles, low pay, and the constant use of his stories in special hardback or album editions by international Disney licensees without any payment of royalties or requests for permission for the use of his name.

* Butterflies Are Free as Don Baker ( Oct 21, 1969 – Jul 2, 1972 )

The Colts immediately went on a rampage in the new league, as new head coach Don McCafferty led the 1970 team to an 11 – 2 – 1 regular season record, winning the AFC East title.

Australia won the five-Test series 2 – 1, with Don Bradman scoring 974 runs at a batting average of 139. 14, an aggregate record that still stands.

The Dolphins had a combined 15 – 39 – 2 record in their first four seasons ( under head coach George Wilson and behind QB Bob Griese 1967 when Don Shula was hired as head coach.

Don Sutton started against Jim Palmer and the Brewers won 10 – 2, thanks to Robin Yount hitting two clutch home runs, clinching the AL East Division.

The Brewers then won Game Five 6 – 4, giving them a 3 – 2 series lead, but the Cardinals trounced Don Sutton winning Game 6 13 – 1, and rallied for three runs late in Game 7 to win the Series, 4 games to 3.

Two milestones were reached by Brewers players in 1983, however, when Don Sutton got his 3, 000th career strikeout and Ted Simmons got his 2, 000th career hit.

Wide receiver Andre Reed led the team with 65 receptions for 913 yards and 3 touchdowns, receiver James Lofton contributed 51 receptions for 786 yards and 6 touchdowns, and wide receiver Don Beebe caught 33 passes for 554 and 2 touchdowns.

Bills receiver Andre Reed finished the game with 6 receptions for 75 yards to lead Buffalo, with Don Beebe catching 6 passes for 60 yards and returned 2 kickoffs for 63 yards.

* June 2 – A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.

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* Don P. Mitchell's catalog of Soviet Moon Images including many from Lunokhod 2

* 1937 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, John F. Allen, and Don Misener discover superfluidity using helium-4 at 2. 2 K

With the coming of free agency after the 1976 season, and with team owner Finley unwilling to pay the higher salary that Jackson would ask for, Jackson was traded on April 2, 1976 along with minor leaguer Bill VanBommell and Ken Holtzman to the Baltimore Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez, and Paul Mitchell.

Tactical Studies Rules ( TSR ) was formed in 1973 as a partnership between Gary Gygax and Don Kaye, who scraped together $ 2, 400 for startup costs, to formally publish and sell the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the first modern role-playing games ( RPG ).

* In the television show Numb3rs, season 4, episode 16, " Atomic No. 33 " ( May 2, 2008 ), Special Agent Don Eppes reveals that his favorite film is not Heat but rather Sullivan's Travels.

Swindon won 5 – 2, with the scorer of two goals in the League Cup final – Don Rogers – scoring once and new acquisition Arthur Horsfield acquiring his first hat-trick for the club .< ref name =" angloleaguecupwin ">