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W1 | 29 Who was the first black to serve in the DE senate? We remember actor Larry Linville; Otis Rush (d. 2018). Eco-friendly Sunday | 30 National Black Funding Day Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019). New Monday | 1 Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. Bring Your Bible To School Day Country Music Month Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) It's also National Work and Family Month. 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 Internationally: Day of Older Persons Interesting Tuesday | 2 Festival of Lights, India Mohandas Gandhi (1869) On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA Doable Wednesday International Day of Non-Violence Rosh Hashana | 3 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 Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON Anticipating Thursday Religion: Rosh Hashanah | 4 National Taco Day Rutherford Hayes (1822) We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS Pleasant Friday | 5 Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) World Teacher Day We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) Chester Arthur (1829) Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET Investment Saturday | |||
W2 | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day Eco-friendly Sunday | 7 World Smile Day Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR Roses became the US Flower (1986) New Monday | 8 National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON Interesting Tuesday | 9 Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. U.S.A. discovered (1000) Name the 1st black member of Islam? Doable Wednesday | 10 Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) Anticipating Thursday | 11 Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) International Day of the Girl We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991 Pleasant Friday Yom Kippur | 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) Investment Saturday Religion:Yom Kippur @ Sunset Day of the Farmers | |||
W3 | 13 Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN We remember Gary Collins d. Eco-friendly Sunday | 14 We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) Dwight Eisenhower (1890) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER New Monday Thanksgiving (Canada) Indigenous Peoples' Day | 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 Interesting Tuesday | 16 NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95). Kids Fest in NY City We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) Doable Wednesday World Food Day | 17 Black Poetry Day Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA National Pasta Day Anticipating Thursday Sukkot | 18 Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska Pleasant Friday | 19 We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means. Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY Investment Saturday | |||
W4 | 20 We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS Eco-friendly Sunday | 21 Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST) What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church? New Monday | 22 Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b. Interesting Tuesday | 23 Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN National Talk Show Host Day Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934). Doable Wednesday | 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 Anticipating Thursday | 25 We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY Pleasant Friday International Artist Day | 26 We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972 Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton Investment Saturday | |||
W5 | 27 Theodore Roosevelt (1858) Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada Eco-friendly Sunday | 28 Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York New Monday | 29 School segregation ended on this day - 1969 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) Interesting Tuesday | 30 John Adams (1735) Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER National Dashiki Day Doable Wednesday | 31 Halloween/Hallelujah Night Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash Anticipating Thursday | 1 Family Stories Month Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month National Entrepreneurship Month Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month National Adoption Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day Religion: Diwali (Hindu - Festival of Lights) Pleasant Friday | 2 Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865) We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018). Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day Investment Saturday Daylight Saving Time Ends | |||