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Oprah Winfrey

By leahaa0306
  • 2010 BCE

    The Oprah Winfrey Show begins its 25th and final season

  • 2009 BCE

    Interviews Whitney Houston in what Winfrey describes as the “best interview she’s ever done”

  • 2007 BCE

    Campaigns for Barack Obama to be elected as US President

  • 2005 BCE

    Ranked number one on Forbes’ Power Celebrity list

  • 2003 BCE

    Oprah’s Book Club becomes the largest book club in the world and she receives the Association of American Publishers’ AAP Honors Award

  • 2000 BCE

    Launches O, The Oprah Magazine which is credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history

  • 1999 BCE

    Co-founds Oxygen Media, a company dedicated to producing cable and internet programming for women

  • 1998 BCE

    Receives her seventh Emmy as Outstanding Talk Show Host and the ninth Emmy for The Oprah Winfrey Show; Winfrey is named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th century

  • 1994 BCE

    President Clinton signs the “Oprah Bill”, creating a nationwide database of convicted child abusers

  • 1989 BCE

    Stars in the ABC TV miniseries The Women of Brewster Place

  • 1986 BCE

    Launches The Oprah Winfrey Show as a nationally syndicated program placed on 120 channels

  • 1985 BCE

    Makes film debut in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

  • 1984 BCE

    Relocates to Chicago to host her own morning show AM Chicago, which was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show a year later

  • 1976 BCE

    Moves to Baltimore and later hosts the TV chat show People are Talking

  • 1973 BCE

    Becomes Nashville’s first African-American TV correspondent and the youngest person to co-anchor the news for WTVF, a CBS-affiliated television station

  • Established Harpo Productions (“Oprah” spelt backwards)

  • OWN, or the Oprah Winfrey Network, launches on New Year's Day