<div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1964</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Hoda Kotb is Born</div><div class='timeline-text'>On August 9, 1964, Hoda Kotb was born in Norman, Oklahoma.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1986</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Starts Broadcasting Career</div><div class='timeline-text'>Hoda Kotb began her broadcast journalism career as a news assistant for CBS News in Cairo, Egypt.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1998</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Joins NBC News</div><div class='timeline-text'>Kotb joined NBC News as a correspondent for the television news magazine program Dateline NBC.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>2007</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Co-Hosts Fourth Hour of Today</div><div class='timeline-text'>Hoda Kotb started co-hosting the fourth hour of NBC's Today show with Kathie Lee Gifford.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>2010</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Publishes First Book</div><div class='timeline-text'>Hoda Kotb released her first book "Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee".</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>2018</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Replaces Matt Lauer on Today</div><div class='timeline-text'>Kotb was named co-anchor of the first two hours of the Today show, alongside Savannah Guthrie, following Matt Lauer's dismissal.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>2020</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Releases Children's Book</div><div class='timeline-text'>Hoda Kotb released a children's book inspired by her experience as a mother, titled "I've Loved You Since Forever".</div></div></div>
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