American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Lynn Rhimes is an American television producer and screenwriter, and founder of the production company Shondaland. Inducted into the Television Hall of Fame and NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, Rhimes became known as the first showrunner–creator, head writer, and executive producer–of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2005–present), its spin-off Private Practice (2007–2013) and the political thriller Scandal (2012–2018), becoming the first African American woman to create three television dramas that have achieved the 100 episode milestone.

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1970

January 13

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-27 Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
532 The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.
1435 Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement by the Spanish of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands who had converted, or were converting to, Christianity, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England.

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The world in 1970

When Shonda arrived

april 1 President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
april 1 A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Berrechid, Morocco, killing 61.
april 10 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
april 11 Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.

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Art Ross 1886–1964 Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886) Edmund White 1940–2025 American novelist, memoirist, and essayist (died 2025) Marc Staal 1987– Canadian ice hockey player Marco Pantani 1970–2004 Italian cyclist (born 1970) Michael Peña 1976– American actor Orlando Bloom 1977– English actor Paul Feyerabend 1924–1994 Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (born 1924) Penelope Ann Miller 1964– American actress Robert Stack 1919–2003 American actor (died 2003)

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Adam Pascal 1970– American actor and singer Barry Pepper 1970– Canadian actor and producer Chorão 1970–2013 Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2013) Dave Eggers 1970– American author and screenwriter Dawn Staley 1970– American basketball player Desmond Howard 1970– American football player and sportscaster Dominic Purcell 1970– English-Australian actor and producer Edoardo Ballerini 1970– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Emmanuel Petit 1970– French footballer

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