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• Happy Birthday, SERENA WILLIAMS

• NY City Opera: A Quiet Place

• Eco-Friendly Sunday
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• U.S. Dept. of Education established, 1979

• World Tourism Day

• Native American Day or American Indian Day, includes Black Indians

• Happy Birthday, LIL WAYNE/GWYNETH PALTROW

• Religious Atonement is a special time of ...

• We remember Don 'Soul Train' Cornelius (b.9/27/1936); Jimmy 'Rapper' Spicer (d. 2019)

• New Monday
28
• Statue of Liberty Dedicated

• Good Neighbor Day

• Happy Birthday, HILARY DUFF/NAOMI WATTS/VERNEE WATSON-JOHNSON

• We remember Ben E. King (9/28/1938-4/30/2015), Miles Davis, Agnes Nixon

• Interesting Tuesday
29
• We remember actor Larry Linville; Otis Rush (d. 2018).

• Who was the first black to serve in the DE senate?

• Doable Wednesday
30
• National Black Funding Day

• Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON

• We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019).

• Anticipating Thursday
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• Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent)

• 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

• Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT.

• Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month

• We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022)

• It's also National Work and Family Month.

• Country Music Month

• Internationally: Day of Older Persons

• Bring Your Bible To School Day

• Pleasant Friday
2
• Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA

• Festival of Lights, India

• Mohandas Gandhi (1869)

• On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast

• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON

• We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson

• The Obama's Wedding Anniversary

• 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show.

• Eco-Friendly Sunday
4
• National Taco Day

• We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019).

• Rutherford Hayes (1822)

• Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS

• New Monday
5
• We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008)

• World Teacher Day

• Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019)

• Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET

• Chester Arthur (1829)

• Interesting Tuesday
6
• German-American Day

• Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR

• Doable Wednesday
7
• World Smile Day

• Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR

• Roses became the US Flower (1986)

• Anticipating Thursday
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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)

• Pleasant Friday
9
• Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA.

• U.S.A. discovered (1000)

• Name the 1st black member of Islam?

• Investment Saturday
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• Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay

• 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863

• We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010)

• Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN

• Eco-friendly Sunday

• Father and Daughter Day
11
• 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)

• International Day of the Girl

• New Monday

• Thanksgiving (Canada)
12
• Happy Birthday, HUGH JACKMAN

• 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)

• Interesting Tuesday
13
• We remember Gary Collins d.

• Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN

• Doable Wednesday
14
• Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER

• We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.)

• Dwight Eisenhower (1890)

• Anticipating Thursday
15
• Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL

• Sept 15 - Oct 15 Last Day of National Hispanic Heritage Month

• National I Love Lucy Day

• Pleasant Friday

• National Boss Day
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• 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).

• Kids Fest in NY City

• We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969).

• Investment Saturday
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• Black Poetry Day

• Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA

• National Pasta Day

• Eco-friendly Sunday
18
• Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska

• New Monday
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• Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY

• We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means.

• Interesting Tuesday
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• We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton

• Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS

• Doable Wednesday

• Full Moon (2021)
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• Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST)

• What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church?

• 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
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• 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

• 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
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858)

• Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada

• Doable Wednesday
28
• Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD

• Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York

• Anticipating Thursday
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

• Pleasant Friday
30
• John Adams (1735)

• Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER

• National Dashiki Day

• Investment Saturday
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• We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash

• Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH

• Halloween/Hallelujah Night

• Eco-friendly Sunday
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• Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month
• Family Stories 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
• New Monday
2
• All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos
• 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
• Interesting Tuesday
• Election Day
3
• National Housewife's Day
• Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN
• Doable Wednesday
4
• King Tut 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.
• National Cookie Day
• Anticipating Thursday
5
• The ending of all quarrels and the beginning of a new year.
• International Day of Prayer
• Bonfire Night (UK/London)
• Pleasant Friday
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• Happy Birthday, SALLY FIELDS/EMMA STONE/THANDIE 'actress' NEWTON
• Investment Saturday