<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First inauguration of Barack Obama">inaugurated</a> as the 44th <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States_of_America" id="mwAS8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the United States of America">President of the United States of America</a>, becoming the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African-American">African-American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>.<sup about="#mwt85" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_20#cite_note-15" id="mwATI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATM">[15]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><cite about="#mwt82" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB38"><a class="external text" href="https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/56th-inaugural-ceremonies/" id="mwB4A" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The 56th Presidential Inauguration: Barack H. Obama, January 20, 2009"</a>. United States Senate. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210705111257/https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/56th-inaugural-ceremonies/" id="mwB4E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on July 5, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB4I">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB4M">July 5,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt82" class="Z3988" id="mwB4Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=The+56th+Presidential+Inauguration%3A+Barack+H.+Obama%2C+January+20%2C+2009&amp;rft.pub=United+States+Senate&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inaugural.senate.gov%2F56th-inaugural-ceremonies%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+20"></span></span>