Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Actor, Forest Whitaker ! Actress, Shari Headley ! NBA player, Damian Lillard ! NBA player, Tobias Harris ! Singer, Millie Jackson ! Comedian, Eddie Griffin !

Today in Afro History ! The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in 1953, making it the first National Monument dedicated to an Afro American ! John Standard patents an improvement to the refrigerator in 1891 !