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• NY City Opera: A Quiet Place
• Eco-Friendly Sunday		27
• U.S. Dept. of Education established, 1979
• World Tourism Day
• Religious Atonement is a special time of ...
• We remember Don 'Soul Train' Cornelius (b.9/27/1936); Jimmy 'Rapper' Spicer (d. 2019)
• Native American Day or American Indian Day, includes Black Indians
• Happy Birthday, LIL WAYNE/GWYNETH PALTROW
• New Monday		28
• Happy Birthday, HILARY DUFF/NAOMI WATTS
• Good Neighbor Day
• Statue of Liberty Dedicated
• We remember Ben E. King (9/28/1938-4/30/2015), Miles Davis, Agnes Nixon
• Interesting Tuesday		29
• We remember actor Larry Linville; Otis Rush (d. 2018).
• Who was the first black to serve in the DE senate?
• Doable Wednesday		30
• Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON
• We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019).
• Anticipating Thursday		1
• Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent)
• Bring Your Bible To School Day
• Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT.
• Filipino American History Month; National Arts and Humanities Month, Italian and Polish American Heritage Month; National Pizza Month
• We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945)
• Hosted theme: Pre-Winter Cleaning and Pretend No-American Business Month, and Family Awareness of Community Generational Family Dysfunction Month.
• Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month
• Pleasant Friday		2
• Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA
• On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast
• Mohandas Gandhi (1869)
• Festival of Lights, India
• Investment Saturday
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• The Obama's Wedding Anniversary
• Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON
• World Smile Day
• 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show.
• We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson
• Eco-Friendly Sunday		4
• National Taco Day
• Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS
• Rutherford Hayes (1822)
• We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019).
• New Monday		5
• World Teacher Day
• Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019)
• Chester Arthur (1829)
• We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008)
• Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET
• Interesting Tuesday		6
• Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR
• German-American Day
• Doable Wednesday		7
• Roses became the US Flower (1986)
• Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR
• Anticipating Thursday		8
• National Children's Day
• Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON
• National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
• Pleasant Friday		9
• Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS/SHARON OSBOURNE
• U.S.A. discovered (1000)
• Name the 1st black member of Islam?
• Investment Saturday
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• We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010)
• Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay
• 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863
• Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN
• Eco-friendly Sunday
• Father and Daughter Day 		11
• We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991
• Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE
• International Day of the Girl
• Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish)
• New Monday
• Thanksgiving (Canada)		12
• Name the 1st black musician to tour overseas funded by the US State Dept.
• We remember Tommy "actor" Ford, Dick Gregory.
• Happy Birthday, HUGH JACKMAN
• Interesting Tuesday		13
• Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN
• We remember Gary Collins d.
• Clergy Appreciation Day
• Doable Wednesday		14
• Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER
• We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.)
• Dwight Eisenhower (1890)
• Anticipating Thursday		15
• Sept 15 - Oct 15 Last Day of National Hispanic Heritage Month
• National I Love Lucy Day
• Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL
• Pleasant Friday
• National Boss Day		16
• Kids Fest in NY City
• NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA)
• We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969).
• Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95).
• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA
• National Pasta Day
• Black Poetry Day
• Eco-friendly Sunday		18
• Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska
• New Monday		19
• Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY
• We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means.
• Interesting Tuesday		20
• We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton
• Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS
• Doable Wednesday
• Full Moon (2021)		21
• What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church?
• Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST)
• Anticipating Thursday		22
• We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b.
• Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH
• Pleasant Friday		23
• Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks?
• National Talk Show Host Day
• We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934).
• Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN
• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, MONICA/DANIEL GLOVER/DRAKE/BILL WYMAN/ADRIENNE BAILON
• We remember Sarah J. Hale (d. 1788); Sheila Stewart (d. 2013); Maureen O'Hara (d. 2015); Robert Guillaume (d. 2017); Melvin Wah Wah Waston Ragin (d. 2018),
• United Nations Day, An international peacekeeping organization.
• Eco-friendly Sunday		25
• We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino.
• Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY
• New Monday		26
• We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972
• Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton
• Interesting Tuesday		27
• Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada
• Mother-in-Law Day
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858)
• Doable Wednesday		28
• Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York
• Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD
• Anticipating Thursday		29
• School segregation ended on this day - 1969
• Happy Birthday, GABRIELLE UNION/TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
• We remember Al Molinaro "Happy Days ... Al Delvecchio". (d. 2015), Keith 'singer' Wilder (d. 2017), John 'comedian/actor' Witherspoon (d. 2019)
• Pleasant Friday		30
• John Adams (1735)
• National Dashiki Day
• Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER
• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH
• Last Day of "Pretend No American Businesses" event
• We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash
• Halloween/Hallelujah Night
• Eco-friendly Sunday		1
• Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month
• Family Stories Month
• Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day
• International Day of Prayer
• Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month
• National Adoption Month
• New Monday		2
• All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos
• Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA
• We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018).
• James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865)
• Interesting Tuesday
• Election Day		3
• National Housewife's Day
• Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN
• Doable Wednesday		4
• Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781
• National Cookie Day
• Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT
• King Tut Day
• We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts.
• Anticipating Thursday		5
• The ending of all quarrels and the beginning of a new year.
• Bonfire Night (UK/London)
• Pleasant Friday		6
• Happy Birthday, SALLY FIELDS/EMMA STONE
• Investment Saturday