BARRAC OBAMA-THE UNKNOWN STORIES

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili. While Obama’s father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was from Kenya, his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was from Kansas.

2. From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather. In 1971, he moved back to Hawaii and lived with his maternal grandparents.

3. He hasn't liked ice cream since his first job: working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager growing up in Hawaii.

4. After attending Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years, he transferred to Columbia University inNew York where he graduated with a degree in political science. He also attended Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated magna cum laude. He was the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.

5. In 1992, he married the former Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, whom he met at a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha