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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 We remember Don 'Soul Train' Cornelius (b.9/27/1936); Jimmy 'Rapper' Spicer (d. 2019) World Tourism Day Religious Atonement is a special time of ... Native American Day or American Indian Day, includes Black Indians Happy Birthday, LIL WAYNE/GWYNETH PALTROW New Monday | 28 Happy Birthday, HILARY DUFF/NAOMI WATTS/VERNEE WATSON-JOHNSON Statue of Liberty Dedicated Good Neighbor Day We remember Ben E. King (9/28/1938-4/30/2015), Miles Davis, Agnes Nixon 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 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 Faith: Clergy Appreciation 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 Bring Your Bible To School Day Country Music Month It's also National Work and Family Month. Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent) We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) Internationally: Day of Older Persons Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. 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 We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson The Obama's Wedding Anniversary Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON 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). Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS Rutherford Hayes (1822) New Monday | 5 Chester Arthur (1829) Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) World Teacher Day Interesting Tuesday | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day Doable Wednesday | 7 Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR World Smile Day Roses became the US Flower (1986) 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 Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. Name the 1st black member of Islam? U.S.A. discovered (1000) Investment Saturday | |||
W3 | 10 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) Eco-friendly Sunday Father and Daughter Day | 11 We remember John 'Red Foxx' Sanford 12/9/1922-10/11/1991 International Day of the Girl Death of Casimer Pulaski Day (America/Polish) Happy Birthday, GEORGE JOHNSON/ZACH GALIFIANAKIS/RAPPER MC LYTE New Monday Thanksgiving (Canada) | 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) 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 Sept 15 - Oct 15 Last Day of National Hispanic Heritage Month National I Love Lucy Day Happy Birthday, ERIC BENET/GINUWINE/KEYSHIA COLE/PENNY MARSHALL Pleasant Friday National Boss Day | 16 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) Kids Fest in NY City Investment Saturday | |||
W4 | 17 Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA Black Poetry Day 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 Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? National Talk Show Host Day Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934). Investment Saturday | |||
W5 | 24 Happy Birthday, MONICA/DANIEL GLOVER/DRAKE/BILL WYMAN/ADRIENNE BAILON 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), Eco-friendly Sunday | 25 We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY 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 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 National Dashiki Day John Adams (1735) Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER Investment Saturday | |||
W6 | 31 We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash Halloween/Hallelujah Night Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH Eco-friendly Sunday | 1 Nationally Military Family Appreciation Month Family Stories Month National Family Caregiver Month National Homeless Youth Awareness Month National Entrepreneurship Month Hosted Theme: Native American Appreciation Month Religion: Black Catholic History Month; today, All Catholic Saint's Day National Adoption Month New Monday | 2 James Polk (1795)/Warren Harding (1865) Happy Birthday, State of NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA All Soul's Day (Mexico), Dia de los Muertos 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 Happy Birthday, SEAN "DIDDY/LOVE" COMBS/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY/LORETTA'actress" SWIT National Cookie Day Who was the 1st known black Methodist Preacher? - 1781 King Tut Day We remember Will Rogers; Doris Roberts. 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 | |||