Barack Obama Events

1961 Aug 4 Barack Obama born
Barack Obama was born at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, to Stanley Ann Dunham, an American of predominantly English descent from Wichita...
2004 Jul 27 Obama speech to DNC
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Dick Durbin. You make us all proud. On behalf of the great state of Illi...
2006 Sep 25 Oprah Winfrey Endorses Barack Obama On Larry King Live
On September 25, 2006, Winfrey appeared on Larry King Live and was asked about a fan who started a campaign to get Winfrey to run for president. Larry King noted that Winfrey's lawyers ha...
2006 Oct 19 Oprah Winfrey Interviews Barack Obama On Her Show
On September 25, 2006, Winfrey appeared on Larry King Live and was asked about a fan who started a campaign to get Winfrey to run for president. Larry King noted that Winfrey's lawyers ha...
2007 Sep 8 Oprah Winfrey Hosts A Barack Obama Fundraiser
Winfrey has exerted political influence, endorsing presidential candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. This is the first time she has publicly made such an endorsement....
2008 Jan 28 Edward Kennedy Announces Endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 Presidential Race
Kennedy initially stated that he would support John Kerry again should he run for president in 2008, but in January 2007, Kerry said he would not. Kennedy then remained neutral as the 200...
2008 Aug 22 Barack Obama annouces Joe Biden as vice-president running mate
Since shortly following Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, Obama had been privately telling Biden that he was interested in finding an important place for him in a possible Ob...
2008 Aug 25 Edward Kennedy Addresses DNC in Denver
The operation and follow-up treatments left Kennedy thinner, prone to seizures, weak and short on energy, and hurt his balance. Kennedy made his first post-illness public appearance on Ju...
2008 Nov 4 Obama elected President of United States
Obama beats McCain and is elected US President. To the very end, Mr. McCain’s campaign was eclipsed by an opponent who was nothing short of a phenomenon, drawing huge crowds epitomiz...
2009 Jan 20 Aretha Franklin Sings at Presidential Inauguration
Maybe it's "Mad Men" or all the stingy-brim wearing hipsters in L.A., but hats are back. You only had to scan the crowd of berets and fur trapper caps at the inauguration today to figure ...
2009 Jan 20 Edward Kennedy Attends Obama Inauguration but Collapses at Celebratory Luncheon
Kennedy's office confirmed that on Wednesday morning he left Washington Hospital Center, where he had been resting overnight for observation. A spokeswoman says he was in good spirits and...
2009 Jan 20 Inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th US President
Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech OBAMA: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices b...
2009 Jan 20 Senator Robert Byrd is Removed from Barack Obama's Inaugural Luncheon
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the oldest member of the Senate, was so upset and distraught from what he had witnessed, that he needed to be taken out of the room. The two senators have been ...
2009 Jan 23 President Obama orders closure of Guantanamo Bay detention facility
Torture and CIA "ghost" prisons will be no more. Guantanamo Bay will be closed. Lo and behold, the leader of communist Cuba has called the 44th President of the United States "an honest m...
2009 Jan 29 Hillary Rodham Clinton elected to be Secretary of State
In mid-November 2008, President-elect Obama and Clinton discussed the possibility of her serving as U.S. Secretary of State in his administration, and on November 21, reports indicated th...
2009 Feb 24 President Barack Obama's Address to the Joint Session of Congress
SPEECH - PART 1 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and...
2009 Apr 2 G20 Summit
G20: A helpful guide to saving the world Opinion: Here's what to look for as the rich and powerful meet in London. By Michael Moran - GlobalPost Columnist NEW YORK — As the leaders o...
2009 Apr 27 President Obama Says Swine Flu is Cause for Concern, Not Panic
U.S. President Barack Obama says the threat of a swine flu epidemic is cause for concern, but not alarm. There have been 149 suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico but none in the United St...
2009 May 17 President Barack Obama speaks at University of Notre Dame Commencement
Transcript of Barack Obama's Speech to University of Notre Dame Class of 2009 Well, first of all, congratulations, Class of 2009. Congratulations to all the parents, the cousins _ the ...
2009 May 22 President Obama Signs Into Law the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009
On Friday, May 22, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Act). Many of the key provisions do not become ef...
2009 May 26 Barack Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court
President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. President Obama on Tuesday introduces Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his choice for the ...
2009 Jun Unemployment reaches 9.5 percent in June
The American economy lost 467,000 more jobs in June, and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.5 percent in a sobering indication that the longest recession since the 1930s had yet to relea...
2009 Jun 2 Obama Travels to the Middle East
Obama to Depart on Trip to Middle East, Europe By VOA News 02 June 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama leaves Washington Tuesday on a five-day trip - where he will reach out to the Mus...
2009 Jun 4 Obama delivers speech to Muslim world in Cairo
It started with “assalaamu alaykum” and ended with “may God’s peace be upon you.” Inbetween, President Barack Obama dotted his speech to the Muslim world with Islamic terms and reference...
2009 Jun 15 President Obama speaks to doctors at AMA Annual Meeting
In a speech before the American Medical Association today, President Obama pushed his health-reform agenda, defending his push for a public health-insurance option and speaking in favor o...
2009 Jun 17 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan being prodded to run for Roland Burris's Senate Seat
The Obama White House is pushing to have Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan run for the U.S. Senate; she was at the White House last Friday meeting with President Obama, Chief of Staf...
2009 Jun 20 Pharmaceutical Industry Agrees to Spend $80 Billion (US) Improving Drug Benefits for Seniors on Medicare
The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to spend $80 billion over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medicare and defraying the cost of President Barack Obama's he...
2009 Jun 22 President Obama Signs Groundbreaking Tobacco Regulation Bill into Law
Expressing a hope that America's teens will not be hooked as he was, President Obama just signed into law a bill granting the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new authority to regula...
2009 Jun 23 President Obama Denounces Violence Against Protesters in Iran
President Obama's latest remarks on Iran, in which he said the U.S. and the world are appalled and outraged by the Iranian government's crackdown on dissent, have met with praise but also...
2009 Jul 6 President Obama Arrives in Moscow to Discuss Arms Controls
The United States and Russia, seeking to move forward on one of the most significant arms control treaties since the end of the cold war, have reached a preliminary agreement on cutting e...
2009 Jul 10 President Barack Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI
President Barack Obama sat down with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday for frank but constructive talks between two men who agree on helping the poor but disagree on abortion and...
2009 Jul 25 President Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting in Ohio to Discuss Health Care Reform
Mr. Obama plans a primetime news conference on health care Wednesday night, and Thursday he will take Air Force One to Cleveland. He’ll take a private tour of the Cleveland Clinic—closed ...
2009 Aug 1 Representative Lloyd Doggett Mobbed by Anti-Health Care Reform Protesters in Austin
In Austin on Saturday, a throng of protesters enveloped Representative Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas, at a supermarket where he was trying to meet constituents. They carried signs that...
2009 Aug 2 Senator Arlen Spector and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are Heckled at Health Care Reform Event
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell lawmakers will face over health care as audience members booed and jeer...
2009 Aug 3 Poster of Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker Are Spotted Around Los Angeles Area
President Obama's been called a lot of things -- but this is probably the first time any campaign has tried to peg him as flat-out creepy. A slew of posters have been spotted througho...
2009 Aug 4 AARP Townhall Meeting to Discuss Health Care Reform is Derailed by Protesters
Another video making the rounds is of a town hall in Dallas organized by the AARP, a non-partisan special interest group. The video cuts between shots of exasperated organizers and their ...
2009 Aug 4 Barack Obama Celebrates 48th Birthday
144. IQ? Nope, President Obama's latest bowling score, says Robert Gibbs. You'll remember, the President tossed a miserable 37, or something like that, back in the Pennsylvania Democrat...
2009 Aug 6 Fight Breaks Out at Town Hall Meeting in St. Louis to Discuss Health Care
At town hall meetings in Tampa, Detroit, and St. Louis yesterday -- chaos. A forum on aging sponsored by Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., resulted in protests and violence and six arrests --...
2009 Aug 6 Representative John Dingell Addresses Concerns Over Health Care Reform at Town Hall Meeting
Here's one town hall where the member of Congress is likely to give as much as he gets. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest serving member of the House — and one of the toughest c...
2009 Aug 7 Sarah Palin Writes "Death Panels" Comment on Facebook
When we last heard from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin she was -- not without some justification -- beseeching some members of the media to "quit making things up." But in a post on he...
2009 Aug 11 President Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting in New Hampshire to Discuss Health Care Reform
They lined up on both sides of the road to Portsmouth High School -- several hundred opponents, fairly evenly divided, for and against health care reform. The common denominator was volum...
2009 Aug 11 Representative Susan Davis Holds Town Hall in San Diego to Discuss Health Care Reform
Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night at a town-hall meeting on health care reform that was attended by Democratic Congresswoman Susan Davis. The doors opened to the public at 5:30...
2009 Aug 11 Senator Arlen Spector Presides Over Unruly Town Hall Meeting
More than 1,000 people showed up here Tuesday morning in this largely Republican town in central Pennsylvania for a town-hall-style meeting with Senator Arlen Specter, though the auditori...
2009 Aug 14 Florida Police Question Teenager about "Obama Joker" Poster
Police in Florida have questioned a teenager who admitted to hanging dozens of posters depicting President Obama as the Joker, and suggested that the prank could be part of a nationwide c...
2009 Aug 14 President Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting in Montana to Discuss Health Care Reform
President Barack Obama brought his town hall tour to Montana on Friday, talking about health care reform in a state where residents pride themselves on their independence and many are ske...
2009 Aug 15 President Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting in Colorado to Discuss Health Care Reform
President Obama aimed to lower the temperature of the health-reform debate in Colorado by appearing in person Saturday in Grand Junction and delivering a speech that framed health reform ...
2009 Aug 15 President Obama Suggests that Public Option Could be Dropped from Health Care Reform
The White House, facing increasing skepticism over President Obama’s call for a public insurance plan to compete with the private sector, signaled Sunday that it was willing to compromise...
2009 Aug 17 Numerous Heavily-Armed Protesters Attend Obama Speech at Veterans of Foreign Wars Event
About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monda...
2009 Aug 18 Firas Alkhateeb Identified as Creator of 'Obama Joker' Image
A 20-year-old college history major of Palestinian descent who supported Rep. Dennis Kucinich's presidential candidacy is the anonymous artist who turned a Time magazine cover photo of Ba...
2009 Aug 18 White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs Stresses that White House Still Prefers Public Option in Health Care Debate
Gibbs denounced reports that the administration may drop its support for a publicly funded insurance option because of intense opposition. He attributed the reports to a media "overreacti...