The Inauguration of President Barack Obama
Yesterday
was a historic day. On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in
as the 44th President of the United States of America - the first
African-American ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-
Chief.
The event was witnessed by well over one million attendees in chilly
Washington D.C., and by many millions more through coverage on
television and the Internet. Collected here are photographs of the
event, the participants, and some of the witnesses around the world.
The
Capitol is illuminated in the early morning hours before the
inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States
of America January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (David McNew/Getty
Images)
People
gather to watch US President Barack Obama's sworn in as the 44th US
president by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in front of the
US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. (JEWEL
SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
This
image provided by GeoEye Satellite Image shows Washington D.C.'s
National Mall and the United States Capitol (top), in Washington D.C.
on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 taken at 11:19AM EDT during the inauguration
of President Barack Obama. The image, taken through high, wispy white
clouds, shows the masses of people between the Capitol and the
Washington Monument. (AP Photo/GeoEye Satellite Image)
A
woman looks through binoculars at the Capitol building during the
inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the
United States in Washington, January 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Jessica
Rinaldi)
President-elect
Barack Obama takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts
to become the 44th President of the United States on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Barack
H. Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States as his
wife Michelle Obama holds the Bible and their daughters Malia Obama and
Sasha Obama look on, on the West Front of the Capitol January 20, 2009
in Washington, DC. (Chuck Kennedy-Pool/
Getty Images)
President
Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in by
Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States
as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Capitol
January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images)
People
cheer at the Washington Monument during the inauguration ceremony of
U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington January 20, 2009.
(REUTERS/Mark Blinch)
Spectators
in Times Square watch President Barack Obama take the oath of office
during his inauguration Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 in New York. (AP
Photo/Jason DeCrow)
Residents
of Kibera, one of the poorest quarters in Nairobi gather to watch the
inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama in Nairobi on
January 20, 2009. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
People
watch a big television screen broadcasting Barack Obama being sworn in
as the 44th President of the United States of America on the West Front
of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 during a ceremony
at the Paris town hall in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Iraqis
gather to watch televised coverage of the inauguration of U.S.
President Barack Obama at a cafe in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City
in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
U.S.
soldiers watch the U.S. presidential inauguration via a webcast from
Combat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan January 20, 2009.
(REUTERS/Bob Strong (AFGHANISTAN)
Cecilia
Perez, center, watches the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama
with Oscar Rodriguez at her taco stand in Mexico City, Jan. 20, 2009.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Villagers
of Nyang'oma Kogelo, the Kenyan village where 44th US President Barack
Obama's father was born, react as they watch on a giant screen
inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama, on January 20,
2009. Thousands of people from around and beyond Kogelo, including
foreign tourists gathered at Nyang'oma village to celebrate the
inauguration of Obama. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/
Getty Images)
Shoppers
watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Best Buy Store
at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
(AP Photo/Jim Mone)
People
gather for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of
the United States of America on the National Mall January 20, 2009 in
Washington, DC. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The
Rev. Joseph Lowery gives the benediction during the inauguration of
Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America on
the West Front of the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Alex
Wong/Getty Images)
US
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Julia Kelley, left, of the 229th Brigade Support
Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, weeps
as she watches the inauguration of US President Barack Obama at Camp
Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
People
attend the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the
United States on the National Mall January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
U.S.
President Barack H. Obama greets guests after he is sworn in as the
44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol
January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/
Getty
Images)
Keith
Hart, center, a Vietnam Army veteran, cheers as he watches Barack Obama
be inaugurated as president, on television with other patrons of the
Oxford Bar in Missoula, Mt., one of the oldest bars in Montana, on
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Albans)
Vertie
Hodge, 74, weeps during an Inauguration Day party near Martin Luther
King, Jr. Blvd. in Houston on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 after President
Barack Obama delivered his speech after taking the oath of office,
becoming the first black president in the United States. (AP
Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)
Members
of a US Navy Honor Guard stand at attention as US President Barack
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Presidential
Reviewing Stand during the Inaugural Parade January 20, 2009 in
Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/
Getty Images)
President
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle stand with former US president
George W. Bush and Laura Bush on the steps of the US Capitol following
the inaugural ceremony for Obama as 44th US president in Washington on
January 20, 2009. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
Former
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush wave as they board a Marine
helicopter at the Capitol in Washington after Barack Obama was sworn in
as the 44th president of the United States, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP
Photo/Charles Dharapak)
A
Marine helicopter with former President George W. Bush on board departs
from the East Front of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in
Washington, as President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice
President Joe Biden and his wife wave goodbye from the steps of the
Capitol. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury, Pool)
Former
President George W. Bush looks out over the U.S. Capitol as his
helicopter departs Washington, D.C. January 20, 2009, for Andrews Air
Force Base following the inauguration ceremonies for President Barack
Obama. (ERIC DRAPER/AFP/Getty Images)
Mujo
Bota and Alamasa Bota, Bosnian Muslims, watch a TV broadcast of the
inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama with their grandson Ajdin
Bota, 10, in the village of Dejicici, near Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
on Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
Students
of the Crested Butte Community School, in Crested Butte Colo. sit on
the floor in the main hallway of the school and applaud the inaugural
address of President Barack Obama while watching the presidential
inauguration in Washington, Tuesday, Jan., 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Nathan
Bilow)
Afghan
men watch a television broadcast showing the inauguration of Barack
Obama as the 44th president of the United States, at a restaurant in
Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Ahmad Masoud)
Kenyans
who gathered at the grounds of the University of Nairobi to watch in
giant screens the inauguration ceremony where Obama was sworn in as the
44th President of the United States of America celebrate the ocassion
on January 20, 2008. Barrack Obama's father was born in Kenya.
40
years after their silent protest at the 1968 Olympics, Gold Medalist
Tommie Smith hugs Bronze Medalist John Carlos, and their wives Delois
Smith and Charlene Carlos after Barack Obama is officially sworn in as
the President of the United States. Photo taken in the Smith room at
the Sheraton Boston in Boston, MA. (Boston Globe/Stan Grossfeld)
U.S.
President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle at the inaugural luncheon
after he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States in
Washington, January 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas)
U.S.
President Barack Obama talks with U.S. Sen. John McCain after arriving
at the luncheon at Statuary Hall the luncheon at Statuary Hall in the
U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Amanda
Rivkin-Pool/
Getty Images)
President
Barack Obama signs his first act as president, a proclamation declaring
a national day of renewal and reconciliation and calling on Americans
to serve one another, after being sworn in as the 44th President of the
United States during the inaugural ceremony in Washington Tuesday, Jan.
20, 2009. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, Pool)
A
South Korean man reads a newspaper reporting on U.S. President Barack
Obama's Inauguration on the subway in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday,
Jan. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Pakistani
Christian children hold portraits of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama
during a prayers ceremony for global peace in Islamabad, Pakistan on
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo)
People
wave American flags at the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th
president of the United States on the National Mall January 20, 2009 in
Washington, DC. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
U.S.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk in the
inaugural parade following his inauguration as the 44th President of
the United States of America on January 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
(Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
Sasha
Obama waves through the limousine window as she and her sister Malia
leave Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP
Photo/Susan Walsh)
U.S.
Navy Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta replaces an official picture of
outgoing President George W. Bush with that of newly-sworn-
in U.S.
President Barack Obama, in the lobby of the headquarters of the U.S.
Naval Base January 20, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Brennan
Linsley-Pool/
Getty Images)
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend the
Neighborhood Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center on
January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/
Getty
Images)
Guests
at the "Biden Home States Ball" record the moment as President Barack
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance at the Washington Convention
Center in the nation's capital, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/J.
Scott Applewhite)
Vice
President Joe Biden and his wife Jill dance during the Commander in
Chief's Ball at the National Building Museum in Washington January 20
2009 . (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance their first
dance at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington January 20,
2009. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)
People
watching President Barack Obama's inauguration via television raise a
toast to the nation's new president at Brooklyn's Fort Greene Senior
Action Center in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy
Willens)
In
this handout photo provided by the White House, a folder for U.S.
President Barack Obama (the 44th president) is shown, left for him by
Former U.S. President George W. Bush on the Resolute desk in the Oval
Office of the White House January 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (Eric
Draper/The White House via Getty Images)
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