This is how future generations will remember us as people of the early 21st century. Take a moment with me to reflect on the conflicts, triumphs, and world changing moments all of us have witnessed together in the past 14 years. We chose this list of 100 photos to capture the most iconic moments so far.
The world welcomes in the new millennium. [2000]
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Zanjeer the bomb dog is laid to rest with full military honours for saving thousands of lives. [2000]
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At the Sydney Olympics, North and South Korea marched together under a 'unification' flag, turning their back on conflict for a brief moment. [2000]
Elián González is seized by US police in the midst of a custody and immigration battle with Cuba [2000]
Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod [2001]
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President Bush's reaction to news of a second plane striking the Twin Towers. He was reading to children at a Florida elementary school. [2001]
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Firefighters raise the American flag on the ruins on the World Trade Centers [2001]
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Nkosi Johnson, a 12-year-old South African child who was born with HIV/AIDS, loses his battle with the disease after leading a campaign which led to the disease becoming more acceptable in culture. Nelson Mandela referred to Nkosi as an "icon". [2001]
Archaeologists discover some of the oldest artworks known to man in Dordogne, France - over 12,000 years old. [2001]
A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after 5 years of Taliban Sharia law. [2001]
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Hajra Catic, a Bosnian Muslim who survived the massacre of her town, watches as justice is served during the international war-crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic. On her walls are the photographs of victims and those still missing after the Bosnian War. [2002]
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The invasion of Iraq begins amid fears that the country had access to weapons of mass destruction. [2003]
Ramzi Haidar
People gather water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat. More than 1 billion people still lack access to clean drinking water. [2003]
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Ballerinas practice with medical masks during the SARS outbreak. [2003]
New York City is plunged into darkness after a power failure [2003]
A month and a half after the invasion began, U.S. Marine Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad. [2003]
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Saddam Hussein shortly after his capture. [2003]
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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds a child after she was separated from her family during a firefight [2003]
Damir Sagolj
President Bush addresses sailors in the famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, declaring the end of major combat in Iraq. [2003]
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The Columbia Space Shuttle breaks apart during re entry [2003]
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The first waves of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, which killed over 200,000 people, hit the shore.
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A Ukrainian woman places carnations into shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kiev. Ukraine, during the 2004 Orange Revolution. [2004]
Vasily Fedosenko
Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz in 2004, after they had just lauched FaceBook.
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A train is left in ruin after coordinated attacks in Madrid killed nearly 200. [2004]
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The Hubble Telescope takes a picture of what the universe looked like 13 billion years ago [2004]
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A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan. [2004]
Victor Korotayev
The Christian world mourns the passing of Pope John Paul II [2005]
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A heart-wrenching picture of a mother and child at an an emergency feeding centre in in Tahoua, Niger. [2005]
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Isabelle Dinoire after receiving the world's first partial face transplant [2005]
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Kevin Berthia is talked out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge by police officers. He has since become an advocate for suicide prevention and has started a family. [2005]
John Storey / San Francisco Chronicle
A bus blown apart by the 7th of July London bombings, which left 52 dead and 700 injured. [2005]
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Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. who lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq. [2005]
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Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they are evacuated from the convention center in New Orleans. [2005]
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The Cassini spacecraft takes a picture of Saturn from deep space. The tiny speck of light circled in red is Earth. [2006]
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The Tribute in Lights shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York. [2006]
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Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months. [2007]
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Thousands gather to mourn after the Virginia Tech shooting [2007]
An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen in Manaus who have been sent to evict natives. [2008]
Luiz Vasconcelos
Michael Phelps celebrates after winning his 14th gold medal, setting the all-time record for most Olympic gold medals. [2008]
Wall Street on the midst of the Global Financial Crisis [2008]
Barack Obama wins the 2008 election, becoming the first African American President.
Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home after a cyclone stroke Myanmar’s capital of Yangon. [2008]
Brian Sokol
Four of the last seven Northern White Rhinos in the world are airlifted from a zoo in the Czech Republic to a park in Africa in an attempt to save their entire species. [2009]
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US Airways Flight 1549 floats on the Hudson river after crash landing, miraculously, everyone survived [2009]
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Vladimir Putin shirtless while vacationing and hunting in Siberia. The now Russian President is a judo black belt. [2009]
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A fireman rescues a koala during Australian bushfires. [2009]
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ISS Astronauts take a walk [2010]
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Kiki, age 7, is pulled from the ruins left by the Haiti earthquake and into the arms of his mother. [2010]
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Elite runner Jaqueline Kiplimo helps a disabled Chinese athlete drink during the 2010 Zheng-Kai marathon. She stayed with him for several miles, costing her the 1st place finish and the $10000 prize. [2010]
Tracy Caldwell looks down on Earth from the International Space Station [2010]
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Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line. [2010]
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge [2010]
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Sahil Saeed, age 5, is reunited with his family after being kidnapped by gunmen in Pakistan. [2010]
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Live images of the Chilean miners trapped in a mine for 21 days. [2010]
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Phyllis Siegel, 76, and Connie Kopelov, 84, are finally able to get married in New York. In the past decade, 17 US States, alongside 15 countries have legalized gay marriage. [2011]
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A couple kisses on the pavement during the Vancouver Riot [2011]
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Christians protect Muslims in prayer at Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution [2011]
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Robert Peraza, who lost his son, mourns 10 years after the 9/11 terror attacks [2011]
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A dog soaks in an adoring crowd in Mexico by following the Pope [2011]
Yuri Cortez
An Egyptian woman kisses a policeman, who had refused to fire on protestors, during the revolution against the Mubarak Government [2011]
A police officer pepper-sprays Occupy protesters at the University of California [2011]
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Barack Obama and Government staff watch as commandos conduct a raid, which ends with the killing of Osama bin Laden [2011]
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New York firefighters, many of whom lost friends in the 9/11 attacks, learn of Osama bin Laden's death [2011]
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Norwegian citizens hold a flower march after terrorist attacks by Anders Breivik killed 77, including 69 children who were staying at a political summer camp. [2011]
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Capt. Michael Potoczniak marries his partner Todd Saunders, in a ceremony in San Francisco. [2011]
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Billy Stinson comforts his daughter on the steps where their cottage once stood before it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene [2011]
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A man saves kittens from floodwater, which left thousands homeless in Pakistan [2011]
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Ray Lewis, a retired police officer, is arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests [2011].
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A 4-month-old baby girl is rescued from the rubble four days after the Japenese tsunami. [2011]
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North Korean citizens learn of the death of Kim Jong-il [2011]
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The US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars [2012]
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Meghan Vogel, a high school runner, helps her exhausted rival cross the finish line. [2012]
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Jullian Assange addresses supporters from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has sought asylum after leaking US Government documents. [2012]
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A man faces off with riot police during the successful Tunisian Revoloution, which sparked the Arab Spring [2012]
The Middle East sees snow for the first time in over 100 years [2012]
Three young women from the New York Fashion Week pose next to a homeless man. [2012]
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A mother comforts her daughter after the Sandy Hook shootings [2012]
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A boy on a bike faces off with Russian riot police during protests by Vladimir Putin's opposition [2012]
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Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado. [2012]
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Pakistani Muslims form a human chain to protect Christians during Mass [2013]
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Two years after the terror attacks in Norway, some of the children who had survived shared the mental and physical scars that they now lived with. [2013]
Ylva Helen Schwenke, 15, was shot five times but now carries her scars with dignity. Andrea Gjestvang
Dzhokar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers behind the Boston Marathon bombing, on the boat where he was eventually caught, with sniper lasers on his forehead. [2013]
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The anti-government Syrian town of Kafr Anbel sends a message to Boston after the marathon bombing. [2013]
Boston replied with their own message. [2013]
The Holmes family take refuge under a jetty as wildfire rages through the town of Dunalley [2013]
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A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi. [2013]
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San Francisco comes together to help batkid save the city - and to grant the wish of an ill child. [2013]
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Carlos Arredondo helps Jeff Bauman after the Boston Marathon bombings. The two are now best friends. [2013]
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A Syrian father is reunited with his son, whom he thought was killed in the bombing of his town. [2013]
Hadi Hdhod
Pope Francis embraces Vinicio Riva, a man scarred by a genetic disease. This was one of many progressive acts that the new leader of the Church made. [2013]
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A woman is peper-sprayed at Turkey's Gezi Park protest. [2013]
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The world says goodbye to Nelson Mandela [2013]
Peter Dejong
Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan [2013]
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Kiev's Independence Square before and after the revolution [2014]
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The first legal purchase of recreational marijuana in Colorado [2014]
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Afghan women turn out to vote in the first democratic transfer of power the country has ever seen. [2014]
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Markiyan Matsekh plays piano for police during the Ukranian revoloution. [2014]
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It's hard to believe we still have 86 years of history left to write. As I created this list, I was reminded that regardless of our differences in ideology, we're all people of the 21st century together. When students in the future look back, they will see us as one unified generation who overcame incredible obstacles and made swift social progress, despite little certainty of what lies ahead.
I hope you enjoyed, and please share these powerful photos with others.
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