Happy 50th, Barack Obama!
Born at 7:24
High school basketball team #23 and they won Hawaii state championship in 1979
Miles between the birthplaces of his parents: 8,413 (Wichita, Kansas and Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya)
Gave first public speech in 1981 at Occidental College in front of about 300 students.
His Columbia junior year apartment rented for $1,900 monthly in 2010.
Chicago house cost $1.65 million.
No grades known from his Columbia years.
Became President of Harvard Law Review after 17 hour selection process against 18 other candidates.
Spent 40-60 hours a week on HLR.
Top 10% ranking in his Harvard Law School graduating class.
Won 48,476 State Senate votes in 1996, 45,486 in 1998 and 48,717 in 2002. Got 3,597,456 U.S. Senate votes and 69,456,897 White House votes.
Pulse: 56 Blood Pressure: 105/62 Weight: 180 Height: 6'1" Cholestrol: 209 up from 173 in 2007.
75 rounds of golf as President.
Recited Presidential oath twice.
$500,000 book advance shortly after taking office.
15 ceremonial pens to sign DADT repeal.
22 to sign health-care bill, which is 906 pages long.
Family dog Bo is valued at $1,600.
Highest and lowest approval rating: 69 and 41
18 trips to 30 countries during presidency.
9.3 million Twitter followers. (Now 9,500,458 as of August 5th, 2011, 4:38 P.M. PST)
Nobel acceptance speech mentioned "war" 44 times and "peace" 32 times.
He is the 4th President to win the Nobel Peace Prize. following Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won in 2002 and former Vice President Al Gore received it in 2007.
Made $1.73 million in 2010 and $5.5 million in 2009.
High school basketball team #23 and they won Hawaii state championship in 1979
Miles between the birthplaces of his parents: 8,413 (Wichita, Kansas and Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya)
Gave first public speech in 1981 at Occidental College in front of about 300 students.
His Columbia junior year apartment rented for $1,900 monthly in 2010.
Chicago house cost $1.65 million.
No grades known from his Columbia years.
Became President of Harvard Law Review after 17 hour selection process against 18 other candidates.
Spent 40-60 hours a week on HLR.
Top 10% ranking in his Harvard Law School graduating class.
Won 48,476 State Senate votes in 1996, 45,486 in 1998 and 48,717 in 2002. Got 3,597,456 U.S. Senate votes and 69,456,897 White House votes.
Pulse: 56 Blood Pressure: 105/62 Weight: 180 Height: 6'1" Cholestrol: 209 up from 173 in 2007.
75 rounds of golf as President.
Recited Presidential oath twice.
$500,000 book advance shortly after taking office.
15 ceremonial pens to sign DADT repeal.
22 to sign health-care bill, which is 906 pages long.
Family dog Bo is valued at $1,600.
Highest and lowest approval rating: 69 and 41
18 trips to 30 countries during presidency.
9.3 million Twitter followers. (Now 9,500,458 as of August 5th, 2011, 4:38 P.M. PST)
Nobel acceptance speech mentioned "war" 44 times and "peace" 32 times.
He is the 4th President to win the Nobel Peace Prize. following Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won in 2002 and former Vice President Al Gore received it in 2007.
Made $1.73 million in 2010 and $5.5 million in 2009.