The past 20 years, in 20 striking photos
In honor of the 20th anniversary of The Week's first print issue, a look back at the past two decades in photos
Firefighters walk towards the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City.
(Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images, September 2001)
President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq aboard an aircraft carrier off the California coast.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File, May 2003)
A tsunami survivor looks for her belongings amid debris in Nagapattinam, India.
(REUTERS/Arko Datta, January 2005)
People stranded on a roof due to flood waters from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
(AFP PHOTO/POOL/Vincent Laforet, August 2005)
Lehman Brothers staff gathered in its London offices amid the firm's looming bankruptcy.
(REUTERS/Kevin Coombs, September 2008)
The Obama family on election night in Chicago.
(EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images, November 2008)
Protesters during an early tea party demonstration in Washington, DC.
(KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images, April 2009)
Army soldiers shield their eyes from the rotor wash of a cargo helicopter in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.
(Chris Hondros/Getty Images, October 2009)
A roller coaster sits in the Atlantic Ocean after Superstorm Sandy struck Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
(Mark Wilson/Getty Images, November 2012)
27 angel cut-outs memorialize victims of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
(EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images, December 2012)
A runner reacts after the Boston Marathon bombing.
(Alex Trautwig/Getty Images, April 2013)
The White House is illuminated in rainbow colors after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.
(REUTERS/Gary Cameron, June 2015)
A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee walks in front of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan.
(REUTERS/Toru Hanai, February 2016)
A boy waits with his mother and others for aid after leaving an Islamic State caliphate, in Deir Al Zor, Syria.
(REUTERS/Rodi Said, March 2019)
Pro-Brexit placards in London.
(REUTERS/Hannah McKay, October 2019)
Workers prepare to spray disinfectant at a railway station amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China.
(STR/AFP via Getty Images, March 2020)
Protestors march after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
(Stephen Maturen/Getty Images, May 2020)
Donald Trump debates Joe Biden in Nashville.
(REUTERS/Jim Bourg/Pool, October 2020)
Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol.
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