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 or 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 Two and Britain was finally lifted.

US 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 US 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 Desiarnes Jr on the cover and Playboy published its very first issue with Marilyn Monroe in the centerfold.

New and her role as Queen Queen Elizabeth II 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 Harpest Andreus Fallenweiter were born.

No relation.

And on September 2, 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 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, the first and only child of her parents Joseph Victor Anthony Rustin and Baroness Ella Von Hamstra, the Momah had two sons from her previous marriage.

Papad Joseph was British. He was 11 years older than his wife Ella and as far as the career goes, it seems like he did as little work as possible.

His whole background is shrouded in mystery. He also was the son of a British father and an Austrian mother which made him British, just like Audrey, British, her official nationality, even though she was born in Brussels.

She was an English woman. It's very complicated. But did he fight in World War I? As he said, he did, did he go to Trinity College, Cambridge? As he said, he did.

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