Barack Obama

3 augustus 1961

31 augustus 1961

29 februari 1964

31 augustus 1967

31 augustus 1971

1 november 1981

4 december 1983

19 januari 2009

03augustus
1961
03 August 1961

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii

Barack Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

31augustus
1961
31 August 1961

Moved to Seattle

Raised largely in Hawaii, he also spent one year of his childhood in the State of Washington and four years in Indonesia.

29februari
1964
29 February 1964

Parents divorce

During that time, the his farther completed his undergraduate degree in economics in Hawaii and attend graduate school on a scholarship at Harvard University, where he earned an M.A. in economics. Obama's parents divorced in March 1964.

31augustus
1967
31 August 1967

Lived in Indonesia

From age six to ten, Obama attended local Indonesian-language schools: Sekolah Dasar Katolik Santo Fransiskus Asisi for two years and Sekolah Dasar Negeri Menteng 01 for one and a half years, supplemented by English-language Calvert School homeschooling by his mother.

31augustus
1971
31 August 1971

Attend Occidental College

After graduating from high school in 1979, Obama moved to Los Angeles to attend Occidental College. In February 1981, Obama made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation's policy of apartheid.

01november
1981
01 November 1981

Columbia University

Later in 1981, he transferred as a junior to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and in English literature

04december
1983
04 December 1983

Graduated

He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 and worked for about a year at the Business International Corporation, where he was a financial researcher and writer then as a project coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group on the City College of New York campus for three months in 1985

19januari
2009
19 January 2009

44th President

Barack Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol.

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