64 years ago today, August 4, 1961 (June 23, 1961, the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, was born. On August 4, 1961, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born. Barack Hussein Obama II, a Democrat of the United States, was the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American President. He was also the first U.S. president to have both black (Luo) and white (Anglo-German-Irish) ancestry and grew up in Asia as a child. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA in 1961, he spent his childhood and youth in Indonesia and Hawaii respectively. In 1991, he graduated from Harvard Law School with honors and honors. In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois Senate. In 2000, he failed to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and has since been working as a state senator and was re-elected in 2002. In 2004, he delivered a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention of the United States, making him a well-known political figure in the United States. In November of the same year, he was elected as a U.S. Senator representing Illinois with 70% of the votes. He was the fifth U.S. senator with African descent in U.S. history. On February 10, 2007, he officially announced his participation in the 2008 U.S. presidential election based on his campaign platform focusing on ending the Iraq war and implementing a universal medical insurance system. In June of the same year, he won the Democratic primary election and became the first African-American presidential candidate in U.S. history to be nominated by a major political party. He was officially elected on November 4. After taking office as president, he fully implemented the economic recovery plan to restore the U.S. economy and made changes in areas such as energy, immigration, citizen health care, education, and tax administration; Militarily advocated withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, expressed friendliness to the Islamic world rather than accompanied by force, and also signed the Prague Treaty on reducing nuclear weapons with Russia, a nuclear power. On October 9, 2009, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Nobel Committee. In 2010, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico faced severe challenges to his ability to govern.