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• Bring Your Bible To School Day

• Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month

• Country Music Month

• It's also National Work and Family Month.

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

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

• 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

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

• Internationally: Day of Older Persons

• Eco-friendly Sunday
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

• New Monday
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

• Interesting Tuesday
4
• National Taco Day

• Rutherford Hayes (1822)

• We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019).

• Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS

• Doable Wednesday
5
• Chester Arthur (1829)

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

• Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019)

• Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET

• World Teacher Day

• Anticipating Thursday
6
• German-American Day

• Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR

• Pleasant Friday

• National Diversity Day
7
• Roses became the US Flower (1986)

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

• World Smile Day

• Investment Saturday
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• National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)

• Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON

• Eco-friendly Sunday
9
• Name the 1st black member of Islam?

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

• U.S.A. discovered (1000)

• New Monday

• Indigenous Peoples' Day
10
• Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay

• 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

• Interesting Tuesday
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

• Doable Wednesday
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)

• Anticipating Thursday
13
• We remember Gary Collins d.

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

• Pleasant Friday
14
• Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER

• Dwight Eisenhower (1890)

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

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

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

• National I Love Lucy Day

• Eco-friendly Sunday
16
• Kids Fest in NY City

• We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969).

• National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22)

• Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95).

• NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA)

• New Monday
17
• Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA

• Black Poetry Day

• National Pasta Day

• Interesting Tuesday
18
• Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska

• Doable Wednesday
19
• Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY

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

• Anticipating Thursday
20
• Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS

• We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton

• Pleasant Friday
21
• What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church?

• Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST)

• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH

• We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b.

• Eco-friendly Sunday
23
• Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN

• Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks?

• National Talk Show Host Day

• We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934).

• New Monday
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• United Nations Day, An international peacekeeping organization.

• Happy Birthday, MONICA/DANIEL GLOVER/DRAKE/BILL WYMAN/ADRIENNE BAILON

• 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),

• Interesting Tuesday
25
• We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino.

• Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY

• Doable Wednesday
26
• Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton

• We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972

• Anticipating Thursday
27
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858)

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

• Pleasant Friday

• Navy Day
28
• Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD

• Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York

• Investment Saturday

• National First Responders Day
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• 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

• Eco-friendly Sunday
30
• Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER

• National Dashiki Day

• John Adams (1735)

• New Monday
31
• Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH

• Halloween/Hallelujah Night

• We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash

• Interesting Tuesday
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• Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month
• Family Stories Month
• National Adoption Month
• National Entrepreneurship Month
• Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day
• Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month
• National Family Caregiver Month
• National Homeless Youth Awareness Month
• Doable Wednesday
2
• All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos
• Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA
• James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865)
• We remember Roy Hargove (d. 2018).
• Baltimore City Maryland: William Donald Schaefer Day
• Anticipating Thursday
3
• National Housewife's Day
• Happy Birthday, KARI"KATI"MICHAELSEN
• Pleasant Friday
4
• We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts.
• Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT
• King Tut Day
• Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781
• National Cookie Day
• Investment Saturday