44th President -- Happy Birthday!

from Writer's Almanac -- (American Public Media - Garrison Keillor) -- adapted for this notice: August 4 is the birthday of President Barack Obama, born in Honolulu, Hawaii (1961). He's the author of the New York Times best-selling books Dreams from My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope (2006) and Of Thee I Sing (2010).