President Obama at Hiroshima: "We have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again" bbc.in/1RvVmkj | BBC News

Watch as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at Hiroshima for a historic visit -- the first ever by a sitting U.S. president. Obama has said he will stress the "very real risks" of nuclear weapons during his visit: http://cnn.it/1TZR6eB | CNN

Barack Obama, who celebrates his 59th birthday today, shot to political stardom with a rousing speech in 2004 at the DNC, which fueled his rise to Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. | Biography