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2010 BCE
The Oprah Winfrey Show begins its 25th and final season
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2009 BCE
Interviews Whitney Houston in what Winfrey describes as the “best interview she’s ever done”
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2007 BCE
Campaigns for Barack Obama to be elected as US President
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2005 BCE
Ranked number one on Forbes’ Power Celebrity list
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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
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2000 BCE
Launches O, The Oprah Magazine which is credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history
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1999 BCE
Co-founds Oxygen Media, a company dedicated to producing cable and internet programming for women
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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
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1994 BCE
President Clinton signs the “Oprah Bill”, creating a nationwide database of convicted child abusers
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1989 BCE
Stars in the ABC TV miniseries The Women of Brewster Place
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1986 BCE
Launches The Oprah Winfrey Show as a nationally syndicated program placed on 120 channels
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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
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1984 BCE
Relocates to Chicago to host her own morning show AM Chicago, which was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show a year later
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1976 BCE
Moves to Baltimore and later hosts the TV chat show People are Talking
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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
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Established Harpo Productions (“Oprah” spelt backwards)
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OWN, or the Oprah Winfrey Network, launches on New Year's Day