Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Audrey Hepburn transformed from a child of privilege to a child of war, from a star of the silver screen,

to a shining example of the best of humanity.

The world is forever a better place for her having lived in it. The end. Let's talk about Audrey Hepburn. But first, let's drop

her into history. In 1953, sweet rationing that had begun during World War II and Britain was

finally lifted. U.S. President Truman

announced the development of the hydrogen bomb, and in a semi-related event, a few weeks later,

Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated as the 34th U.S. president. The polio vaccine was introduced,

and the chemical structure of a DNA molecule was discovered. TV Guide published its very first issue with baby Desi Arnaz Jr. on the cover,

and Playboy published its very first issue with Marilyn Monroe in the centerfold.

New in her role as Queen, Queen Elizabeth I launched the Royal Yacht Britannia.

She knighted Winston Churchill, and eventually she was crowned.

Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for the Old Man in the Sea,

and Elvis Presley graduated from Hume's High in Memphis, Tennessee.

Pat Benatar, Jeb Bush, Rick Moranis, George Brett, Tim Gunn,

Kathy Lee Gifford, Cindy Lopper, and Swiss Harpist Andreas Wallenwiter were born.

No relation.

And on September 2nd, 1953, Audrey Hepburn's first Hollywood movie, Roman Holiday, opened,

and a superstar career of a fashion icon was launched.

Audrey Kathleen Rustin was born on May 4th, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium,

the first and only child of her parents, Joseph Victor Anthony Rustin, and Baroness Ella von Heimstra,

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