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W1 | 1 Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent) Country Music Month Bring Your Bible To School Day It's also National Work and Family 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 Internationally: Day of Older Persons Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) | 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) | 3 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show. We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson The Obama's Wedding Anniversary Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON | 4 National Taco Day Rutherford Hayes (1822) Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). | 5 Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET World Teacher Day Chester Arthur (1829) We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day | 7 Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR Roses became the US Flower (1986) World Smile Day | |||
W2 | 8 Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) | 9 U.S.A. discovered (1000) Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. Name the 1st black member of Islam? | 10 Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 | 11 Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991 International Day of the Girl Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE | 12 Happy Birthday, HUGH JACKMAN We remember Tommy "actor" Ford, Dick Gregory, Rudolph Isley (d. 2023) Name the 1st black musician to tour overseas funded by the US State Dept. | 13 Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN We remember Gary Collins d. | 14 We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER Dwight Eisenhower (1890) | |||
W3 | 15 National I Love Lucy Day Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL Sept 15 - Oct 15 Last Day of National Hispanic Heritage Month | 16 NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). Kids Fest in NY City Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95). | 17 Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA National Pasta Day Black Poetry Day | 18 Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska | 19 Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means. | 20 Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton | 21 What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church? Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST) | |||
W4 | 22 Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b. | 23 National Talk Show Host Day Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934). | 24 United Nations Day, An international peacekeeping organization. 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), Happy Birthday, MONICA/DANIEL GLOVER/DRAKE/BILL WYMAN/ADRIENNE BAILON | 25 We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY | 26 We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972 Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton | 27 Theodore Roosevelt (1858) Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada | 28 Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD | |||
W5 | 29 Happy Birthday, GABRIELLE UNION/TRACEE ELLIS ROSS School segregation ended on this day - 1969 We remember Al Molinaro "Happy Days ... Al Delvecchio". (d. 2015), Keith 'singer' Wilder (d. 2017), John 'comedian/actor' Witherspoon (d. 2019) | 30 Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER John Adams (1735) National Dashiki Day | 31 Halloween/Hallelujah Night We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH | 1 Family Stories Month Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month National Adoption Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day National Entrepreneurship Month Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month | 2 Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865) We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018). All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day | 3 National Housewife's Day Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN | 4 King Tut Day We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts. Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781 Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT National Cookie Day | |||