Nine years later, performing on the Broadway stage, critics found her to be charming, honest and talented in the title role of Gigi. She achieved stardom a mere two years later with her Academy award-winning performance in Roman Holiday. Audrey married Mel Ferrer on September 25, 1954 and co-starred with him and Henry Fonda in War and Peace. A year later, Funny Face premiered with Fred Astaire as her co-star. (The title role stuck to her like glue.) Love in the Afternoon opened the same year with Gary Cooper sharing the spotlight. 

The seemingly fragile actress -- she fainted at the premiere of Farewell to Arms when the scene showed a difficult childbirth; and fell off a horse, fracturing several vertebrae while filming The Unforgiven -- received four Oscar nominations for Best Actress and made no less than two dozen movies in her film career including Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Children’s Hour in 1961, Charade [1963], My Fair Lady [1964] (Marni Nixon dubbed her singing), Two for the Road in 1967 and Robin and Marian with Sean Connery [1976]. Both stars received France’s Commander of Arts and Letters Award in 1987. 

In later years, the diminutive star turned her attentions once more to affairs of the world, serving as spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund. 

The world lost a great benefactor and a beautiful funny face when Audrey Hepburn died in January of 1993. 
1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive homeruns, Yankees 11, Tigers 9

On this day in 1929 American actress Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, Belgium. A former dancer, the radiantly beautiful and graceful Audrey Hepburn won a 1953 Oscar for her first Hollywood film, then earned four subsequent nominations for her elegant starring roles through the late 1960s. She largely retired form the screen in the 1970s to raise a family and devote herself to charitable activities. She is seen in a 1950s headshot. 
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, amerikanische Filmschauspielerin («Ein Herz und eine Krone»), gest. 1993, geboren
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, amerikanische Filmschauspielerin («Frühstück bei Tiffany»), gest. 1993, geboren
1929 Audrey Hepburn Eigentlich Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, * 4.5.1929 Brüssel/Belgien, † 20.1. 1993 Tolochenaz/Schweiz. , gestorben
Hepburn war einer der erfolgreichsten weiblichen Hollywood-Stars nach 1945. Für ihre Rolle als Prinzessin in »Ein Herz und eine Krone« (1953) von William Wyler mit Gregory Peck erhielt sie einen Oscar.
1929 Henry Morton Dunham composer, dies at 75 , gestorben
1929 Audrey Hepburn [Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston] Brussels Belgium (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) , geboren

1964 - Another World premiered on NBC-TV. The soap opera dramatized the story of two families: the Randolphs and the Matthews. 
US Chart Toppers
1964
Can’t Buy Me Love - The Beatles
Hello Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
Bits and Pieces - The Dave Clark Five
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1964 "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premiere on TV
1964 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)

 1978: Der sowjetische Staats- und Parteichef Leonid Breschnew besucht Bonn. Die beiden Staaten schließen ein Abkommen über wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit.
1978 - Als erstes sowjetisches Staatsoberhaupt besucht Staats- und Parteichef Leonid Breschnjew die Bundesrepublik
 1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany

1985 - The famed Apollo Theatre, once the showcase for the nation’s top black performers, reopened after a renovation that cost $10.4 million. The landmark building on West 125th Street in New York was the first place The Beatles wanted to see on their initial visit to the United States. Ed Sullivan used to frequent the Apollo in search of new talent for his CBS show. 

US Chart Toppers
1988
Where Do Broken Hearts Go - Whitney Houston
Wishing Well - Terence Trent D’Arby
Angel - Aerosmith
It’s Such a Small World - Rodney Crowell & Rosanne Cash
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

 1996: Der konservative José María Aznar wird in Madrid zum neuen Regierungschef Spaniens gewählt.
1996 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st American League team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
Hochzeit von David Caruso, Filmschaffende/R, und 'Margaret Buckley' , Filmschaffende/R, 
Hochzeit von Forest Whitaker, Filmschaffende/R, und 'Keisha Simone Nash' , Filmschaffende/R, 
Hochzeit von Keisha Whitaker, Filmschaffende/R, und Forest Whitaker, Filmschaffende/R,