Visit to Hiroshima, Japan
Timeline - May 27, 2016
Visit to Hiroshima, Japan
President Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city of Hiroshima, where he lays a wreath at the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park which memorializes the vicitms of the atomic bombing in 1945.
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President Obama visits Hiroshima and lays at wreath in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
President Obama visits Hiroshima and lays at wreath in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
President Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan shake hands after laying wreaths in a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.