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W1 | 26 NY City Opera: A Quiet Place Happy Birthday, SERENA WILLIAMS Eco-Friendly Sunday | 27 U.S. Dept. of Education established, 1979 Native American Day or American Indian Day, includes Black Indians Happy Birthday, LIL WAYNE/GWYNETH PALTROW Religious Atonement is a special time of ... World Tourism Day We remember Don 'Soul Train' Cornelius (b.9/27/1936); Jimmy 'Rapper' Spicer (d. 2019) New Monday | 28 Happy Birthday, HILARY DUFF/NAOMI WATTS/VERNEE WATSON-JOHNSON We remember Ben E. King (9/28/1938-4/30/2015), Miles Davis, Agnes Nixon Statue of Liberty Dedicated Good Neighbor Day Interesting Tuesday | 29 Who was the first black to serve in the DE senate? We remember actor Larry Linville; Otis Rush (d. 2018). Doable Wednesday | 30 We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019). Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON National Black Funding Day Anticipating Thursday | 1 Bring Your Bible To School Day 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) Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent) It's also National Work and Family Month. Country Music Month Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. Internationally: Day of Older Persons Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month Pleasant Friday | 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) Investment Saturday | |||
W2 | 3 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show. We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON The Obama's Wedding Anniversary Eco-Friendly Sunday | 4 National Taco Day Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS Rutherford Hayes (1822) We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). New Monday | 5 We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) World Teacher Day Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET Chester Arthur (1829) Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) Interesting Tuesday | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day Doable Wednesday | 7 World Smile Day Roses became the US Flower (1986) Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR Anticipating Thursday | 8 National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON Pleasant Friday | 9 Name the 1st black member of Islam? Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. U.S.A. discovered (1000) Investment Saturday | |||
W3 | 10 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay Eco-friendly Sunday Father and Daughter Day | 11 International Day of the Girl Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991 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, Rudolph Isley (d. 2023) Happy Birthday, HUGH JACKMAN Interesting Tuesday | 13 Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN We remember Gary Collins d. Doable Wednesday | 14 Dwight Eisenhower (1890) We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER Anticipating Thursday | 15 Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL National I Love Lucy Day Sept 15 - Oct 15 Last Day of National Hispanic Heritage Month Pleasant Friday National Boss Day | 16 Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95). Kids Fest in NY City National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). Investment Saturday | |||
W4 | 17 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 Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton 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 | |||
W5 | 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 Eco-friendly Sunday | 25 Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. 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 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 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 Pleasant Friday | 30 John Adams (1735) Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER National Dashiki Day Investment Saturday | |||
W6 | 31 We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH Halloween/Hallelujah Night Eco-friendly Sunday | 1 Family Stories Month Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month National Adoption Month National Entrepreneurship Month National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month New Monday | 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 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 King Tut Day National Cookie Day Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts. Anticipating Thursday | 5 International Day of Prayer 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/THANDIE 'actress' NEWTON Investment Saturday | |||