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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 Religious Atonement is a special time of ... Native American Day or American Indian Day, includes Black Indians Happy Birthday, LIL WAYNE/GWYNETH PALTROW We remember Don 'Soul Train' Cornelius (b.9/27/1936); Jimmy 'Rapper' Spicer (d. 2019) World Tourism Day 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 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 We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019). Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON Anticipating Thursday | 1 Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. Internationally: Day of Older Persons Bring Your Bible To School Day Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent) We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) Country Music Month Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month It's also National Work and Family 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 Pleasant Friday | 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 Investment Saturday | |||
W2 | 3 The Obama's Wedding Anniversary 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show. Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson Eco-Friendly Sunday | 4 National Taco Day Rutherford Hayes (1822) Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). New Monday | 5 Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET Chester Arthur (1829) World Teacher Day We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) Interesting Tuesday | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day Doable Wednesday | 7 Roses became the US Flower (1986) World Smile Day Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR Anticipating Thursday | 8 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 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 Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 Eco-friendly Sunday Father and Daughter Day | 11 Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) International Day of the Girl Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE 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) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) Anticipating Thursday | 15 National I Love Lucy Day Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL 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). We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) Kids Fest in NY City NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) Investment Saturday | |||
W4 | 17 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 | 19 We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means. Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY Interesting Tuesday | 20 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) | 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 Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN National Talk Show Host Day We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934). Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? 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 We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY New Monday | 26 Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972 Interesting Tuesday | 27 Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada Theodore Roosevelt (1858) Doable Wednesday | 28 Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York Anticipating Thursday | 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) Pleasant Friday | 30 National Dashiki Day Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER John Adams (1735) 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 Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month National Adoption Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month National Entrepreneurship Month New Monday | 2 All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018). James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865) Interesting Tuesday Election Day | 3 Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN National Housewife's Day Doable Wednesday | 4 We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts. National Cookie Day Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781 King Tut Day Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT Anticipating Thursday | 5 International Day of Prayer Bonfire Night (UK/London) The ending of all quarrels and the beginning of a new year. Pleasant Friday | 6 Happy Birthday, SALLY FIELDS/EMMA STONE/THANDIE 'actress' NEWTON Investment Saturday | |||