Timeline - Obama Presidency Oral History

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2008

Oct 3, 2008

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act signed

Nov 4, 2008

President Obama elected

Dec 16, 2008

Economic team briefed on stimulus proposals

2009

Jan 20, 2009

President Obama inaugurated

Jan 22, 2009

Guantanamo Bay closure ordered

Jan 29, 2009

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed

Feb 17, 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed

Feb 19, 2009

CNBC's Rick Santelli calls for a 21st century "Tea Party" movement

Feb 24, 2009

Address to Congress on economic conditions and the importance of healthcare reform

Mar 20, 2009

First Lady breaks ground on new White House vegetable garden

Mar 29, 2009

Extension of support to GM and Chrysler

Apr 2, 2009

G20 summit on global financial crisis in London

Apr 5, 2009

Speech on nuclear nonproliferation in Prague

Jun 4, 2009

Speech to the Muslim world in Cairo

Jun 26, 2009

American Clean Energy and Security Act passes the House

Jul 11, 2009

Speech to the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra

Jul 30, 2009

President Obama and Vice President Biden host "beer summit" at the White House

Aug 6, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by US Senate

Sep 9, 2009

Republican congressman interrupts healthcare reform speech with "You lie!''

Oct 24, 2009

H1N1 declared national emergency

Oct 28, 2009

Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act signed

Nov 5, 2009

Inauguration of annual Tribal Nations Conferences

Nov 5, 2009

Mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas

Dec 1, 2009

Troop surge in Afghanistan announced during West Point speech

Dec 7, 2009

UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen

Dec 10, 2009

President Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize

Dec 25, 2009

"Underwear bomber" attempt aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253

2010

Jan 12, 2010

Major earthquake in Haiti

Jan 15, 2010

Healthcare reform conference meetings with Democratic congressional leaders

Jan 19, 2010

Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Massachusetts special election

Jan 21, 2010

SCOTUS prohibits restrictions on political spending by corporations

Jan 27, 2010

First State of the Union Address

Feb 9, 2010

Michelle Obama announces Let's Move! initiative

Feb 18, 2010

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform created

Feb 25, 2010

Healthcare summit at the Blair House

Mar 23, 2010

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed

Mar 31, 2010

Speech on energy security and offshore drilling

Apr 20, 2010

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

May 1, 2010

Attempted Times Square car bombing

Jul 21, 2010

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed

Aug 3, 2010

Fair Sentencing Act signed

Aug 5, 2010

Elena Kagan confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by US Senate

Oct 2, 2010

2010 United States midterm elections

Nov 28, 2010

WikiLeaks begins publishing leaked US diplomatic cables

Dec 13, 2010

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act signed

Dec 17, 2010

Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act signed

Dec 17, 2010

Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolates in Tunisia

Dec 18, 2010

US Senate passes Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal and rejects DREAM Act

Dec 22, 2010

New START nuclear arms reduction treaty ratified by US Senate

2011

Jan 8, 2011

Representative Giffords survives assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona

Jan 25, 2011

2011 State of the Union Address

Mar 19, 2011

NATO-led intervention in Libya begins

Apr 4, 2011

President Obama announces his candidacy for re-election

Apr 12, 2011

Joining Forces initiative announced

Apr 27, 2011

White House releases President Obama's "long form" birth certificate

May 2, 2011

Osama Bin Laden is killed

Jun 1, 2011

White House engages in Grand Bargain fiscal negotiations with congressional Republicans

Jun 22, 2011

Planned drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan announced

Aug 2, 2011

Budget Control Act signed

Sep 8, 2011

President Obama calls on lawmakers to pass American Jobs Act

Sep 17, 2011

Occupy Wall Street takes over New York's Zuccotti Park

Sep 19, 2011

Keystone XL protestors arrested at White House

Oct 21, 2011

Withdrawal of US troops in Iraq announced

Dec 6, 2011

Speech on inequality

2012

Feb 22, 2012

Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act signed

Feb 26, 2012

Trayvon Martin killed in Sanford, Florida

May 9, 2012

President Obama announces support for marriage equality

Jun 15, 2012

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) issued

Jun 28, 2012

Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act

Jul 20, 2012

Mass shooting during screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado

Aug 5, 2012

Mass shooting at Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Aug 20, 2012

President Obama sets Syrian "red line" on chemical weapons

Sep 11, 2012

Attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya

Oct 22, 2012

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall

Nov 6, 2012

President Obama re-elected

Nov 19, 2012

President Obama visits Myanmar

Dec 14, 2012

Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut

2013

Jan 1, 2013

American Taxpayer Relief Act signed

Jan 1, 2013

"Fiscal cliff" crisis

Jan 29, 2013

Hadiya Pendleton murdered in Chicago, Illinois at park after school

Mar 1, 2013

Budget Control Act sequestration takes effect

Apr 15, 2013

Bombing at the Boston Marathon

Jun 5, 2013

Snowden leaks hit The Guardian

Jun 7, 2013

"Shirt-sleeves summit"

Jun 25, 2013

Climate Action Plan released

Jun 25, 2013

Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder ruling

Jun 26, 2013

Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional

Jun 27, 2013

Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act passes Senate

Jun 30, 2013

Power Africa initiative launched

Oct 1, 2013

Federal government shutdown

Oct 1, 2013

healthcare.gov launched

Dec 1, 2013

Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

2014

Feb 7, 2014

Farm Bill signed

Feb 20, 2014

Russian annexation of Crimea begins

May 2, 2014

First Lady Michelle Obama launches Reach Higher

Jun 13, 2014

Visit to the Standing Rock Sioux tribal nation in Cannonball, SD

Jun 30, 2014

Supreme Court grants religious exemptions in healthcare coverage

Jul 28, 2014

White House urges Congress to supply emergency funding for border crisis

Aug 9, 2014

Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri

Nov 4, 2014

2014 midterm elections

Nov 11, 2014

US-China climate change announcement

Nov 20, 2014

Protection for parents of US citizens and permanent residents announced

Dec 18, 2014

Task Force on 21st Century Policing established

2015

Jan 2, 2015

Ship carrying Syrian migrants rescued off Italian coast

Mar 3, 2015

President and First Lady launch Let Girls Learn

Mar 7, 2015

50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama

Apr 27, 2015

Unrest in Baltimore following Freddie Gray's death

Jun 17, 2015

Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina

Jun 25, 2015

Supreme Court upholds tax provisions of the Affordable Care Act

Jun 26, 2015

Supreme Court rules that right to marry extends to same-sex couples

Jun 29, 2015

EPA mandated to consider cost implications of new greenhouse gas emissions

Jul 26, 2015

Address to Kenyan public in Nairobi

Aug 3, 2015

Clean Power Plan released

Aug 31, 2015

President Obama travels to Alaska

Oct 18, 2015

United Nations Security Council adopts Iran Nuclear Deal

Nov 6, 2015

Keystone XL pipeline rejected

Nov 13, 2015

Paris terror attacks

Nov 30, 2015

UN Climate Conference in Paris

Dec 2, 2015

Terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California

2016

Jan 16, 2016

Iran Nuclear Deal comes into effect

Feb 4, 2016

Trans-Pacific Partnership signed

Feb 9, 2016

Supreme Court Blocks EPA regulation of power plant emissions

Mar 16, 2016

Merrick Garland nominated to Supreme Court

Mar 20, 2016

Visit to Havana, Cuba

May 4, 2016

Visit to Flint, Michigan to address water crisis

Jun 12, 2016

Mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida

Jun 23, 2016

Supreme Court Blocks DAPA Program

Jul 7, 2016

Mass shooting at Dallas protest over killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling

Oct 28, 2016

Mass arrest of protestors at Standing Rock

Nov 8, 2016

Donald Trump wins presidential election

Dec 13, 2016

21st Century Cures Act signed

2017