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W1 | 25 How did Illinois get its name? Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashanah 2-Day Celebration 9/25-9/27 National Day of Remembrance for Murdered Victims We remember Andy Williams (12/3/1927-9/25/2012) Happy Birthday, WILL SMITH/CLIFFORD "TIP" HARRIS/HEATHER LOCKLEAR/DONALD GLOVER Eco-friendly Sunday | 26 Happy Birthday, SERENA WILLIAMS NY City Opera: A Quiet Place New Monday Rosh Hashanah | 27 U.S. Dept. of Education established, 1979 Religious Atonement is a special time of ... World Tourism Day Happy Birthday, LIL WAYNE/GWYNETH PALTROW 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 Interesting Tuesday Rosh Hashanah ends at sunset | 28 Good Neighbor Day We remember Ben E. King (9/28/1938-4/30/2015), Miles Davis, Agnes Nixon Happy Birthday, HILARY DUFF/NAOMI WATTS/VERNEE WATSON-JOHNSON Statue of Liberty Dedicated Doable Wednesday | 29 We remember actor Larry Linville; Otis Rush (d. 2018). Who was the first black to serve in the DE senate? Anticipating Thursday | 30 Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019). National Black Funding Day Pleasant Friday | 1 Country Music Month Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. Bring Your Bible To School Day Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent) Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month Hosted theme: TSB Social Event Pre-Winter Cleaning Month; It's Art and Humanities Month, Pastoral Appreciation Month, Filipino American History Month; Italian and Polish American Month, & Pizza Month It's also National Work and Family Month. We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) Internationally: Day of Older Persons Investment Saturday | |||
W2 | 2 On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA Festival of Lights, India Mohandas Gandhi (1869) Eco-friendly Sunday | 3 The Obama's Wedding Anniversary Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show. We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson New Monday | 4 National Taco Day We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS Rutherford Hayes (1822) Interesting Tuesday | 5 Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET World Teacher Day Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) Chester Arthur (1829) We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) Doable Wednesday Yom kippur | 6 German-American Day Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR Anticipating Thursday | 7 World Smile Day Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR Roses became the US Flower (1986) Pleasant Friday | 8 Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) Investment Saturday | |||
W3 | 9 Name the 1st black member of Islam? Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. U.S.A. discovered (1000) Eco-friendly Sunday | 10 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) New Monday Sukkot | 11 International Day of the Girl Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991 Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) Interesting Tuesday | 12 Name the 1st black musician to tour overseas funded by the US State Dept. Happy Birthday, HUGH JACKMAN We remember Tommy "actor" Ford, Dick Gregory, Rudolph Isley (d. 2023) Doable Wednesday | 13 Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN We remember Gary Collins d. Anticipating Thursday | 14 Dwight Eisenhower (1890) We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER Pleasant Friday | 15 Sept 15 - Oct 15 Last Day of National Hispanic Heritage Month Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL National I Love Lucy Day Investment Saturday | |||
W4 | 16 NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95). We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). Kids Fest in NY City Eco-friendly Sunday | 17 National Pasta Day Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA Black Poetry Day New Monday | 18 Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska Interesting Tuesday | 19 Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means. Doable Wednesday | 20 Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton Anticipating Thursday | 21 What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church? Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST) Pleasant Friday | 22 We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b. Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH Investment Saturday | |||
W5 | 23 Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934). Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN National Talk Show Host Day Eco-friendly Sunday | 24 United Nations Day, An international peacekeeping organization. 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), New Monday | 25 We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY Interesting Tuesday | 26 Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972 Doable Wednesday | 27 Theodore Roosevelt (1858) Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada Anticipating Thursday | 28 Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD Pleasant Friday | 29 We remember Al Molinaro "Happy Days ... Al Delvecchio". (d. 2015), Keith 'singer' Wilder (d. 2017), John 'comedian/actor' Witherspoon (d. 2019) Happy Birthday, GABRIELLE UNION/TRACEE ELLIS ROSS School segregation ended on this day - 1969 Investment Saturday | |||
W6 | 30 Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER John Adams (1735) National Dashiki Day Eco-friendly Sunday | 31 Halloween/Hallelujah Night We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH New Monday | 1 Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month Family Stories Month National Adoption Month National Entrepreneurship Month National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month Interesting Tuesday | 2 James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865) Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018). Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos Doable Wednesday | 3 Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN National Housewife's Day Anticipating Thursday | 4 Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781 National Cookie Day We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts. King Tut Day Pleasant Friday | 5 The ending of all quarrels and the beginning of a new year. International Day of Prayer Bonfire Night (UK/London) Investment Saturday | |||