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Obama is born in Honolulu, Hawaii
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Obama moves to Los Angeles to attend Occidental college
GIves first speech about apartheid, and Occidental's disinvestment from South Africa -
Obama goes to Columbia and majors in political science
Graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in political science. -
Obama enters Harvard Law School
Selected as Editor of Harvard Law Review (newspaper) and he made it in the paper when he became the first black president -
Obama becomes Senator of Illinois
Sponsored many new laws and policies, like more tax credits for low-income families, and welfare reform -
Obama announces presidential campaign
Gave speech in the same place that Lincoln gave his historic "House Divided" speech. Symbolic. -
Obama becomes president
Obama assumes office, inauguration -
Obama moves more troops to Afghanistan
Sent in more troops to "stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan" -
Obama announes to take out troops from Iraq
Removed all troops in August 2010, next mission is from combat to counter terrorism, train, equip and advise Iraqi security forces -
Obama announces 2012 presidential campaign
Announced re-election in a video titled "It Begins With Us"
