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W1 | 1 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 We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) It's also National Work and Family Month. Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. Country Music Month Bring Your Bible To School Day Internationally: Day of Older Persons | 2 Festival of Lights, India Mohandas Gandhi (1869) Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast | 3 We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show. The Obama's Wedding Anniversary Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON | 4 National Taco Day We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). Rutherford Hayes (1822) Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS | 5 Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) Chester Arthur (1829) We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) World Teacher Day Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day | 7 Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR World Smile Day Roses became the US Flower (1986) | |||
W2 | 8 National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON | 9 Name the 1st black member of Islam? Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. U.S.A. discovered (1000) | 10 We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay | 11 Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991 International Day of the Girl | 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 We remember Gary Collins d. Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN | 14 Dwight Eisenhower (1890) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) | |||
W3 | 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 | 16 Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95). National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) Kids Fest in NY City We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). | 17 Black Poetry Day Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA National Pasta 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 Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST) What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church? | |||
W4 | 22 We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b. Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH | 23 Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? National Talk Show Host Day Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN 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 Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972 | 27 Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada Theodore Roosevelt (1858) | 28 Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD | |||
W5 | 29 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) Happy Birthday, GABRIELLE UNION/TRACEE ELLIS ROSS | 30 John Adams (1735) National Dashiki Day Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER | 31 Halloween/Hallelujah Night Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash | 1 Family Stories Month Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month National Adoption Month National Entrepreneurship Month Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day | 2 James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865) We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018). All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day | 3 National Housewife's Day Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN | 4 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. National Cookie Day King Tut Day | |||