Barack Obama wrote a new chapter in American history when he became the first black president of the United States.
But it seems he might be a bit sketchy on the past - having suggested that America "invented the automobile".
Speaking yesterday, President Obama set out how he plans to tackle US economic woes.
While committing his administration to a "re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win", he said that "the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it".
However, the US is not usually credited with that particular landmark.
Although there is some disagreement, it's Karl Benz, founder of Mercedes-Benz in Germany, who usually gets the plaudits. As The Washington Post points out, the USA's own Library of Congress credits Benz with the patent for what it calls "the first true automobile" in 1886.
Of course, the US can rightly claim to have had a big hand in making the car a mass-produced vehicle, with American Henry Ford - founder of the Ford Motor Company - introducing the first assembly-line-produced, widely available automobile: his 1908 Model T.
