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• We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022)
• Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent)
• Internationally: Day of Older Persons
• Bring Your Bible To School Day
• Country Music Month
• Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT.
• 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.
• Eco-friendly Sunday		2
• On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast
• Festival of Lights, India
• Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA
• Mohandas Gandhi (1869)
• New Monday		3
• Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON
• The Obama's Wedding Anniversary
• 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show.
• We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson
• Interesting Tuesday		4
• National Taco Day
• We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019).
• Rutherford Hayes (1822)
• Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS
• Doable Wednesday		5
• We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008)
• World Teacher Day
• Chester Arthur (1829)
• Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET
• Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019)
• Anticipating Thursday		6
• Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR
• German-American Day
• Pleasant Friday
• National Diversity Day		7
• World Smile Day
• Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR
• Roses became the US Flower (1986)
• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON
• National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
• Eco-friendly Sunday		9
• Name the 1st black member of Islam?
• Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA.
• U.S.A. discovered (1000)
• New Monday
• Indigenous Peoples' Day		10
• Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN
• 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863
• Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay
• We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010)
• Interesting Tuesday		11
• Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE
• International Day of the Girl
• Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish)
• We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991
• Doable Wednesday		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)
• Anticipating Thursday		13
• We remember Gary Collins d.
• Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN
• Pleasant Friday		14
• Dwight Eisenhower (1890)
• Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER
• We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.)
• Investment Saturday
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• 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
• Eco-friendly Sunday		16
• NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA)
• Kids Fest in NY City
• Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95).
• We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969).
• National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22)
• New Monday		17
• Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA
• Black Poetry Day
• National Pasta Day
• Interesting Tuesday		18
• Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska
• Doable Wednesday		19
• Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY
• We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means.
• Anticipating Thursday		20
• We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton
• Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS
• Pleasant Friday		21
• What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church?
• Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST)
• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH
• We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b.
• Eco-friendly Sunday		23
• Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks?
• Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN
• We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934).
• National Talk Show Host Day
• New Monday		24
• 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.
• Happy Birthday, MONICA/DANIEL GLOVER/DRAKE/BILL WYMAN/ADRIENNE BAILON
• Interesting Tuesday		25
• Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY
• We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino.
• Doable Wednesday		26
• We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972
• Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton
• Anticipating Thursday		27
• Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858)
• Pleasant Friday
• Navy Day		28
• Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD
• Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York
• Investment Saturday
• National First Responders Day
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• 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)
• School segregation ended on this day - 1969
• Eco-friendly Sunday		30
• National Dashiki Day
• John Adams (1735)
• Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER
• New Monday		31
• We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash
• Halloween/Hallelujah Night
• Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH
• Interesting Tuesday		1
• Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month
• Family Stories Month
• National Family Caregiver Month
• National Homeless Youth Awareness Month
• Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day
• National Adoption Month
• Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month
• National Entrepreneurship Month
• Doable Wednesday		2
• Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA
• We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018).
• James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865)
• All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos
• Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day
• Anticipating Thursday		3
• National Housewife's Day
• Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN
• Pleasant Friday		4
• King Tut Day
• National Cookie Day
• Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781
• Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT
• We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts.
• Investment Saturday