TODAY IN HISTORY

• 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians in 1973
• Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school in 1962
• 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania in 1944 
• 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) in 1914

Celebrity Birthdays on this Day

• Singer Mariah Carey is 42
• Director Quentin Tarantino is 49
• Actress Brenda Song (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) is 24
• Singer Fergie of Black Eyed Peas is 37