Announces the closure Federal leadership on Dont ask, dont tell policy preventing openly LGBT Emergency board

nt tell policy preventing openly LGBT Emergency board to investigate
of Guantanamo Bay
Loosens regulations on
stem cell research
Signs his first Bill, the Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, promoting
fair pay without discrimination
Submits proposals for
healthcare reform, later to
become known as Obamacare
Signs off a $790 billion
stimulus package for the US
economy; the Tea Party holds
its first national protest
Irans Green Movement starts in
response to a disputed election;
WHO declares a swine flu pandemic
Russia shuts off gas supplies
to Europe through Ukraine
Making open and machine Establishing an emergency board Wildland-Urban Interface
reducing text messaging people from serving in the armed forces is repealed disputes between certain railroads readable the new default for to investigate disputes between the Federal Risk Mitigation
while driving government information The government shuts Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
down all non-emergency Authority and certain of its employees
functions after its new represented by certain labour organisations
budget was blocked by
The Deepwater Horizon disaster Republican lawmakers
releases 4.9 million barrels of Nuclear The US hits its debt
disarmament treaty House Republicans take Hurricane Sandy hits the ceiling of $16.4 trillion, Protests in Baton
oil into the Gulf of Mexico
the government to the wire Eastern Seaboard, causing sparking a political crisis Executive actions call Resumes diplomatic Rouge; police officers
on negotiations over the US $70 billion of damage for a halt to automatic relations with Cuba are attacked in Dallas
borrowing limits deportation of
Tries and fails to get the 2016 Democrats are battered undocumented migrants
Olympics awarded to his in the mid-term elections NSA contractor Edward Snowden
hometown of Chicago releases details of US government Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri,
Obama releases Occupy Wall Street starts surveillance operations
following the shooting of
his full birth
Michael Brown by police Riots in Charlotte
certificate
Riots in Baltimore
Wikileaks publishes leaked
Deploys troops to Central Africa to The senate votes
cables detailing US actions
hunt the Lords Resistance Army down new gun control
in Afghanistan, released by
Obamacare measures; Boston
Private Chelsea Manning Brussels terror
signed into law Earthquake and tsunami kill Marathon bombings
attacks
16,000 people in Japan The Republicans win
their largest majority in a
20 children are killed at century in the mid-terms The Supreme Court rules that Alleged coup
Tunisian revolution begins Sandy Hook Elementary Black Lives Matter same-sex couples have a
Russia annexes attempt in Turkey
the so-called Arab Spring World stock School campaign begins constitutional right to marry
markets crash Crimea
Osama bin
US begins airstrikes
Greece gets a 110 Laden killed
Wikileaks releases Iraq war declared over against IS in Iraq Irans nuclear deal brings it back
billion bailout US assists France
more than 250,000 into the international fold UK votes to leave the EU
in war in Mali A coup in Egypt deposes the
US diplomatic cables
Islamist Muslim Brotherhood

Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Libya

Earthquake in Haiti kills
Gets a dog, Bo, a $1,600 more than 150,000 people
Portuguese water dog Egyptian president Syrian civil Pope Francis elected; Venezuelan West African Ebola So-called Islamic State declares
China gets a bigger Hosni Mubarak, a war begins president Hugo Chvez dies outbreak begins its Caliphate in Syria and Iraq Paris terror attacks Paris climate deal signed
share of the IMF US ally, is deposed; Greece gets another bailout
Obama gives a well-received Libyan civil war begins
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speech in Cairo, in an attempt to

improve Americas image in the
Middle East

Files tax return showing 2009 income In his second inaugural Holds a live interview with Visits the Islamic
of $5.5 million, mainly from book sales address, Obama calls for true YouTube celebrities Society in Baltimore,
equality for LGBT Americans his first visit to a
Awarded the Nobel Wins second term Meets the Dalai Lama again Holds excellent
Has the US mosque
Peace Prize meeting with
Oval Office Roasts Donald Trump president-elect
Quits smoking
redesigned at the White House Donald Trump
60% 60% Gets another dog, Sunny Publishes an essay in
correspondents dinner Glamour magazine,
describing himself as
Meets the a feminist
Meets the Pope
Dalai Lama

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Bye-bye
EXECUTIVE ORDERS NOS. 1 < 10 DOMESTIC EVENTS GLOBAL
From Obamacare and equal pay to gay marriage, Barack Obamas two EVENTS
Barack Obamas executive orders have been attacked by the political Healthcare, immigration, gun control and
terms in office have been marked by progressive milestones and bitter
backlash from the conservative caucuses. Over eight years, Obama has
right in the US but what about his administration hasnt? His use of rising social tension among black communities PERSONAL

Barry
also guided the US through massive global turmoil and overseen contro-
executive power is in line with his predecessors, but it is targeting gun have defined Obamas two terms in office. The MILESTONES
control and immigration that he has provoked considerable ire. Going Affordable Care Act, which gives American
versial rapprochements with Iran and Cuba. Now he hands the keys to the PHOTO: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/
through the records shows that these executive orders range from the citizens on lower incomes access to healthcare, GETTY IMAGES
White House and the nuclear launch codes to Donald Trump, who has
globally relevant, like sanctions, to the parochial, such as giving Federal was opposed all the way by his opponents, but
promised to unwind almost all of Obamas flagship achievements.
employees a half-day off on Christmas Eve. Others are just plain weird. looks set to leave a powerful legacy.

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