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

And here's your 30-second summary.

Martha Gellhorn was one of the most influential war correspondents of the 20th century.

Over the course of a 60-year career, she reported from nearly every major global conflict,

the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, and more.

In her work, she focused a compassionate eye on the lives of the ordinary people caught in turmoil

beyond their control, and this made her coverage uniquely powerful.

Her bravery and determination made her a legend.

The end. Let's talk about Martha Gellhorn. But first, let's drop her into history. In 1930,

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met. Hostess Twinkies were invented, and the first Mickey Mouse comic appeared.

Colonel Harlan Sanders opened his very first restaurant, Sanders Court, and Cafe.

Adler Planetarium, the U.S.'s first planetarium, and the very nearby shed aquarium both opened in Chicago.

Pilot Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.

The tallest man-made structure, the Chrysler building, opened, only to lose that title a year later to the Empire State Building.

Clarence Birdseye was granted a patent for flash

frozen foods. Buzz Aldrin, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, Clint Eastwood, George Soros,

and Warren Buffett were not only all born, but they are all still alive as of this recording.

Authors D.H. Lawrence and Arthur Conan Doyle, former U.S. President William Howard Taft,

labor organizer Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, all died.

And in 1930 with two suitcases, one typewriter and 75 bucks cash,

Martha Gellorn headed to Paris.

Martha Ellis Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 8, 1908, the third child and only daughter of the four children of George Gellhorn and Edna Fischel Gellhorn.

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