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

And here's your 30-second summary.

Babe Dietrichson Zaharius was the best all-round athlete the world has ever seen.

She took names and kicked fatouties all over the track, the court, the alley, the diamond, and the course.

She never met a sport she couldn't conquer.

The End

Let's talk about Babe Dietrichson Zaharius.

But first let's drop her into history.

In 1930, comic icons Betty Boob and Blondie first appeared.

Twinkies were invented, Scotch tape began to be marketed, and the Sanders court and cafe opened, eventually ditching gasoline to focus on chicken.

Kentucky Fried Chicken.

What is formerly known as the planet Pluto was discovered in first photographed.

Happy days are here again and hit number one in the music charts.

Marlena Dietrich starred in her international breakthrough role and Betty Davis signed her first Hollywood movie contract.

The Bank of Italy became the Bank of America.

Tim Horton of Hockey and Coffee Fame, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong of Space Fame, Joeyan Woodward, Steve McQueen, Sandra Day O'Connor, Harvey Milk, Shell Silverstein, Sean Connery, Ray Charles and Warren Buffett were all born.

D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle and Mary Harris Jones died and in 1930, Babe Dietrichson left her childhood life to begin a career as a multi sport athlete.

Mildred Ella Dietrichson was born on June 26, 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas in a house her father had built with his own two hands.

She was the sixth of the seven children of Ula and Hana Dietrichson and the only thing that we really know about Mama is that she was from an ocean town in Norway called Belsen and was the daughter of a shoemaker.

She was a champion ice skater in Norway as well.

And that's about it.

And she was very athletic. That's all we got.

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