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W1 | 27 U.S. Dept. of Education established, 1979 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 Religious Atonement is a special time of ... Eco-Friendly Sunday | 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 New Monday Judaism Social: Yom Kippur | 29 Who was the first black to serve in the DE senate? We remember actor Larry Linville; Otis Rush (d. 2018). Interesting Tuesday | 30 National Black Funding Day Happy Birthday BARRY 'TV-GREG' WILLIAMS/PATRICIA RUSHEN/CISSY HOUSTON We remember Jessye "Opera Singer" Norman (d. 2019). Doable Wednesday | 1 Happy Birthday, former president Jimmy Carter, NIGERIA (AFRICA); CHRISTOPHER 'PETER' KNIGHT , JURNEE SMOLLETT, HOWARD HEWETT. Faith: Clergy Appreciation Month Country Music Month Bring Your Bible To School Day 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 Internationally: Day of Older Persons We remember Donny Hathaway (b. 1945); Kevin flute player Locke (d.2022) Black History Month (U.K. Europe continent) Anticipating-the-Weekend Thursday | 2 Happy Birthday, STING/MOSES GUNN/KELLY RIPA Mohandas Gandhi (1869) Festival of Lights, India On this date: Invention of The Soul Train TV Broadcast Pleasant Friday | 3 10/3/1956 Nat King Cole, 1st black performer to host his own show. We remember composer/band leader Frank Francis Johnson The Obama's Wedding Anniversary Happy Birthday, INDIA ARIE/Min. AL SHARPTON Investment Saturday | |||
W2 | 4 National Taco Day Rutherford Hayes (1822) We remember Diahann Carroll (d. 2019). Happy Birthday, RUSSELL SIMMONS Eco-Friendly Sunday | 5 Chester Arthur (1829) We remember Bernard 'Bernie Mac' McCullough (10/5/1957-8/9/2008) Tyler Perry Studios Official Anniversary (2019) World Teacher Day Happy Birthday, KATE WINSLET New Monday World Habitat Day 2020 (Habitat for Humanity) | 6 Happy Birthday, LAMMAN RUCKER, THOMAS MCCLAR German-American Day Interesting Tuesday | 7 Happy Birthday, TONI BRAXTON/SIMON COWELL/NICOLE ARI PARKER/JOY BEHAR Roses became the US Flower (1986) World Smile Day Doable Wednesday | 8 National Heritage Day (Turks and Caicos Islands) Happy Birthday, NICK CANNON/MATT DAMON/CHEVY CHASE/ROBERT "KOO" BELL, KARYN PARSONS, Rev. JESSE JACKSON Anticipating-the-Weekend Thursday | 9 Happy Birthday, TYLER WILLIAMS; SHARON OSBOURNE; SCOTT 'actor' BAKULA. U.S.A. discovered (1000) Name the 1st black member of Islam? Pleasant Friday | 10 Happy Birthday, TANYA TUCKER/BEN VEREEN We remember Russel Means (10/10/39-10/22/12), Solomon Burke (3/21/1940-10/10/2010) 1st Black Parish, Baltimore, MD - 1863 Kruger Day, Oom Paul Birthay Investment Saturday | |||
W3 | 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 Eco-Friendly Sunday | 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 New Monday | 13 Happy Birthday, ASHANTI/SHIRLEY CAESAR/TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN/SACHA BARON COHEN We remember Gary Collins d. Interesting Tuesday | 14 We remember Maxine "Motown's Etiquette" Powell (d.) Happy Birthday, LOURDES LEON/USHER Dwight Eisenhower (1890) Doable Wednesday | 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 Anticipating-the-Weekend Thursday | 16 Kids Fest in NY City National Friends of the Library Week (10/16-22) We remember Roy Hargove (b. 1969). NATIONAL BOSS'S DAY (USA) Name the creator of the Million Man/Woman March (10/16/95). Pleasant Friday | 17 Happy Birthday, EMINEM/YCLEF JEAN/QUEEN NAIJA Black Poetry Day National Pasta Day Investment Saturday | |||
W4 | 18 Happy Birthday, NE YO/ESPERANZA SPALDING/ZAC EFRON/WESLEY JONATHAN/JOE MORTON; State of Alaska Eco-Friendly Sunday | 19 We remember ROBERT 'MIKE' REED (10/19/1932-4/12/1992), and Russell Means. Happy Birthday, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY New Monday | 20 Happy Birthday, SNOOP DOG/ERIC SCOTT/MARIA DAYTIA/SUNNY HOSTIN/Vice President KAMALA HARRIS We remember Jelly Roll "Jazz Pianist" Morton Interesting Tuesday | 21 What is the name of the 1st black Holiness Church? Happy Birthday, KIM KARDASHIAN (WEST) Doable Wednesday | 22 We remember Russell Means (10/10/39-10/22/12); Carrie Fisher b. Happy Birthday, JULIE DASH Anticipating-the-Weekend Thursday | 23 We remember Johnny Carson (b.); Yvonne Staples (b. 1934). Name the 1st white, presbyterian minister who baptized blacks? Happy Birthday, RYAN REYNOLDS/MEGHAN MCCAIN National Talk Show Host Day Pleasant Friday | 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 Investment Saturday | |||
W5 | 25 We remember Pablo Picasso (1881); Fats Domino. Happy Birthday CIARA/KATY PERRY Eco-Friendly Sunday | 26 We remember Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972 Happy Birthday, PAT SAJACK; former first lady Hillary Clinton New Monday | 27 Happy Birthday, KERI HILSON/LEE GREENWOOD/KELLY OSBOURNE; State of Nevada Theodore Roosevelt (1858) Interesting Tuesday | 28 Happy Birthday, JULIA ROBERTS/BEN HARPER/TELMA HOPKINS/SHERYL UNDERWOOD Statue of Liberty Anniversary, New York Doable Wednesday | 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 Anticipating-the-Weekend Thursday | 30 John Adams (1735) Happy Birthday, NIA LONG/EVA MARCILLE/OTIS 'BIG DADDY' WILLIAMS/HENRY WINKLER National Dashiki Day Pleasant Friday | 31 Happy Birthday, State of NEVADA/WILLOW SMITH We remember Ethel "singer" Waters; Rosalind Cash Halloween/Hallelujah Night Investment Saturday | |||