Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Astronaut, Charles F. Bolden Jr. ! Rapper/Actor, Percy “Romeo” Miller ! Singer, Johnny Nash ! Actress/Comedian, Paula Jai Parker !

Today in Afro History ! Bishop Desmond Tutu defies apartheid laws by walking on a whites only beach in 1989 ! Renaldo “Skeets” Nehemiah breaks world record in the 110m hurdles and becomes the first ever to run it under 13 seconds in 1981 !