How will we be remembered? Here are 72 of the most memorable moments of our millennium so far.
Markiyan Matsekh plays piano for police during the Ukranian revoloution. [2014] Source: Markiyan MatsekhAfghan women turn out to vote in the first democratic transfer of power the country has ever seen. [2014] Source: Anja NiedringhausKiev’s Independence Square before and after the revolution [2014] Source: reddit.comLesleigh 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] Source: ReutersThe world says goodbye to Nelson Mandela [2013] Source: Peter DejongA woman is peper-sprayed at Turkey’s Gezi Park protest. [2013] Source: ReutersPope 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] Source: EPACarlos Arredondo helps Jeff Bauman after the Boston Marathon bombings. The two are now best friends. [2013] Source: APSan Francisco comes together to help batkid save the city – and to grant the wish of an ill child. [2013] Source: Raphael KluzniokA child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi. [2013] Source: ReutersBoston replied with their own message. [2013]The anti-government Syrian town of Kafr Anbel sends a message to Boston after the marathon bombing. [2013]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] Source: Unknown PhotographerPakistani Muslims form a human chain to protect Christians during Mass [2013] Source: The Express TribuneGreg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado. [2012] Source: The Decatur DailyA mother comforts her daughter after the Sandy Hook shootings [2012] Source: ReutersThree young women from the New York Fashion Week pose next to a homeless man. [2012] Source: SpiegelThe Middle East sees snow for the first time in over 100 years [2012]Meghan Vogel, a high school runner, helps her exhausted rival cross the finish line. [2012] Source: APThe US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars [2012] Source: NASAA 4-month-old baby girl is rescued from the rubble four days after the Japanese tsunami. [2011] Source: ReutersCapt. Michael Potoczniak marries his partner Todd Saunders, in a ceremony in San Francisco. [2011] Source: APNorwegian citizens hold a flower march after terrorist attacks by Anders Breivik killed 77. [2011] Source: Unknown PhotographerNew York firefighters, many of whom lost friends in the 9/11 attacks, learn of Osama bin Laden’s death [2011] Source: Unknown PhotographerBarack Obama and Government staff watch as commandos conduct a raid, which ends with the killing of Osama bin Laden [2011] Source: Unknown PhotographerA police officer pepper-sprays Occupy protesters at the University of California [2011] Source: Unknown PhotographerAn Egyptian woman kisses a policeman, who had refused to fire on protestors, during the revolution against the Mubarak Government [2011] Source: Unknown PhotographerA dog soaks in an adoring crowd in Mexico by following the Pope [2011] Source: Yuri CortezRobert Peraza, who lost his son, mourns 10 years after the 9/11 terror attacks [2011] Source: New York PostChristians protect Muslims in prayer at Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution [2011] Source: Nevin ZakiLive images of the Chilean miners trapped in a mine for 21 days. [2010] Source: Unkown PhotographerSmoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line. [2010]Tracy Caldwell looks down on Earth from the International Space Station [2010] Source: NASAElite 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]Kiki, age 7, is pulled from the ruins left by the Haiti earthquake and into the arms of his mother. [2010] Source: Polaris / eyevineA fireman rescues a koala during Australian bushfires. [2009] Source: Unknown PhotographerVladimir Putin shirtless while vacationing and hunting in Siberia. The now Russian President is a judo black belt. [2009] Source: Unknown PhotographerUS Airways Flight 1549 floats on the Hudson river after crash landing, miraculously, everyone survived [2009] Source: Unknown PhotographerFour 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] Source: National GeographicHhaing 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] Source: Brian Sokol
Barack Obama wins the 2008 election, becoming the first African American President.
Wall Street on the midst of the Global Financial Crisis [2008]Michael Phelps celebrates after winning his 14th gold medal, setting the all-time record for most Olympic gold medals. [2008]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] Source: Luiz VasconcelosThousands gather to mourn after the Virginia Tech shooting [2007]Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months. [2007] Source: BuzzFeedThe Tribute in Lights shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York. [2006] Source: The AtlanticThe Cassini spacecraft takes a picture of Saturn from deep space. The tiny speck of light circled in red is Earth. [2006] Source: NASATanisha 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] Source: Eric GayPearl 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] Source: Dallas Morning NewsKevin 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] Source: John Storey / San Francisco ChronicleIsabelle Dinoire after receiving the world’s first partial face transplant [2005] Source: APMother and child at an an emergency feeding centre in in Tahoua, Niger. [2005] Source: Finbarr O’ReillyThe Christian world mourns the passing of Pope John Paul II [2005] Source: Unknown PhotographerA Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan. [2004] Source: Victor KorotayevThe Hubble Telescope takes a picture of what the universe looked like 13 billion years ago [2004] Source: NASA
Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz in 2004, after they had just lauched FaceBook. Source: Daily FinanceA Ukrainian woman places carnations into shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kiev. Ukraine, during the 2004 Orange Revolution. [2004] Source: Vasily FedosenkoThe first waves of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, which killed over 200,000 people, hit the shore. Source: Unknown Photographer
The Columbia Space Shuttle breaks apart during re entry [2003] Source: Unknown PhotographerPresident Bush addresses sailors in the famous “Mission Accomplished” speech, declaring the end of major combat in Iraq. [2003] Source: Unknown PhotographerU.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] Source: Damir SagoljU.S. Marine Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad. [2003] Source: ReutersNew York City is plunged into darkness after a power failure [2003]Ballerinas practice with medical masks during the SARS outbreak. [2003]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] Source: Amit DaveA young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after 5 years of Taliban Sharia law. [2001] Source: ReutersArchaeologists discover some of the oldest artworks known to man in Dordogne, France – over 12,000 years old. [2001]Firefighters raise the American flag on the ruins on the World Trade Centers [2001] Source: Thomas FranklinPresident Bush’s reaction to news of a second plane striking the Twin Towers. He was reading to children at a Florida elementary school. [2001] Source: LIFEZanjeer the bomb dog is laid to rest with full military honours for saving thousands of lives. [2000] Source: Pune MirrorThe world welcomes in the new millennium. [2000] – Source: WikimediaHow will we be remembered? Here are 72 of the most memorable moments of our millennium so far.
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2 responses to “72 Moments In This Millenium That Will Define Us”
Don McCarthy
Amazing collection,some of the events I didn’t even know were recorded by camera.
However, the last image, Sydney fireworks, says (2000); that was the last year of the 20th century and so would be part of the previous millennium, the 2nd. The third millennium began on 01/01/2001.
Yes, some great (and not so great) moments recorded here.
Re fireworks, Apparently Sydney thought it was the new millennium. Could be that the year was recorded incorrectly as well. I mean to say, perhaps this image is from 2000 into 2001, not 1999 into 2000.
![Markiyan Matsekh plays piano for police during the Ukranian revoloution. [2014] Source: Markiyan Matsekh](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-078.jpg)
![Afghan women turn out to vote in the first democratic transfer of power the country has ever seen. [2014] Source: Anja Niedringhaus](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-077.jpg)
![Kiev's Independence Square before and after the revolution [2014] Source: reddit.com](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-076.jpg)
![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] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-075.jpg)
![The world says goodbye to Nelson Mandela [2013] Source: Peter Dejong](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-074.jpg)
![A woman is peper-sprayed at Turkey's Gezi Park protest. [2013] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-073.jpg)
![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] Source: EPA](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-072.jpg)
![Carlos Arredondo helps Jeff Bauman after the Boston Marathon bombings. The two are now best friends. [2013] Source: AP](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-071.jpg)
![San Francisco comes together to help batkid save the city - and to grant the wish of an ill child. [2013] Source: Raphael Kluzniok](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-070.jpg)
![A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi. [2013] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-069.jpg)
![Boston replied with their own message. [2013]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-068.jpg)
![The anti-government Syrian town of Kafr Anbel sends a message to Boston after the marathon bombing. [2013]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-067.jpg)
![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] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-066.jpg)
![Pakistani Muslims form a human chain to protect Christians during Mass [2013] Source: The Express Tribune](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-065.jpg)
![Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado. [2012] Source: The Decatur Daily](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-064.jpg)
![A mother comforts her daughter after the Sandy Hook shootings [2012] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-063.jpg)
![Three young women from the New York Fashion Week pose next to a homeless man. [2012] Source: Spiegel](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-062.jpg)
![The Middle East sees snow for the first time in over 100 years [2012]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-061.jpg)
![Meghan Vogel, a high school runner, helps her exhausted rival cross the finish line. [2012] Source: AP](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-060.jpg)
![The US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars [2012] Source: NASA](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-059.jpg)
![A 4-month-old baby girl is rescued from the rubble four days after the Japanese tsunami. [2011] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-058.jpg)
![Capt. Michael Potoczniak marries his partner Todd Saunders, in a ceremony in San Francisco. [2011] Source: AP](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-056.jpg)
![Norwegian citizens hold a flower march after terrorist attacks by Anders Breivik killed 77. [2011] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-055.jpg)
![New York firefighters, many of whom lost friends in the 9/11 attacks, learn of Osama bin Laden's death [2011] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-054.jpg)
![Barack Obama and Government staff watch as commandos conduct a raid, which ends with the killing of Osama bin Laden [2011] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-053.jpg)
![A police officer pepper-sprays Occupy protesters at the University of California [2011] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-052.jpg)
![An Egyptian woman kisses a policeman, who had refused to fire on protestors, during the revolution against the Mubarak Government [2011] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-051.jpg)
![A dog soaks in an adoring crowd in Mexico by following the Pope [2011] Source: Yuri Cortez](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-050.jpg)
![Robert Peraza, who lost his son, mourns 10 years after the 9/11 terror attacks [2011] Source: New York Post](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-049.jpg)
![Christians protect Muslims in prayer at Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution [2011] Source: Nevin Zaki](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-048.jpg)
![Live images of the Chilean miners trapped in a mine for 21 days. [2010] Source: Unkown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-045.jpg)
![Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line. [2010]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-044.jpg)
![Tracy Caldwell looks down on Earth from the International Space Station [2010] Source: NASA](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-043.jpg)
![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]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-042.jpg)
![Kiki, age 7, is pulled from the ruins left by the Haiti earthquake and into the arms of his mother. [2010] Source: Polaris / eyevine](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-041.jpg)
![A fireman rescues a koala during Australian bushfires. [2009] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-040.jpg)
![Vladimir Putin shirtless while vacationing and hunting in Siberia. The now Russian President is a judo black belt. [2009] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-039.jpg)
![US Airways Flight 1549 floats on the Hudson river after crash landing, miraculously, everyone survived [2009] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-038.jpg)
![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] Source: National Geographic](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-037.jpg)
![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] Source: Brian Sokol](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-036.jpg)
![Wall Street on the midst of the Global Financial Crisis [2008]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-034.jpg)
![Michael Phelps celebrates after winning his 14th gold medal, setting the all-time record for most Olympic gold medals. [2008]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-033.jpg)
![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] Source: Luiz Vasconcelos](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-032.jpg)
![Thousands gather to mourn after the Virginia Tech shooting [2007]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-031.jpg)
![Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months. [2007] Source: BuzzFeed](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-030.jpg)
![The Tribute in Lights shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York. [2006] Source: The Atlantic](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-029.jpg)
![The Cassini spacecraft takes a picture of Saturn from deep space. The tiny speck of light circled in red is Earth. [2006] Source: NASA](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-028.jpg)
![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] Source: Eric Gay](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-027.jpg)
![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] Source: Dallas Morning News](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-026.jpg)
![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] Source: John Storey / San Francisco Chronicle](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-025.jpg)
![Isabelle Dinoire after receiving the world's first partial face transplant [2005] Source: AP](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-024.jpg)
![Mother and child at an an emergency feeding centre in in Tahoua, Niger. [2005] Source: Finbarr O'Reilly](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-023.jpg)
![The Christian world mourns the passing of Pope John Paul II [2005] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-022.jpg)
![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] Source: Victor Korotayev](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-021.jpg)
![The Hubble Telescope takes a picture of what the universe looked like 13 billion years ago [2004] Source: NASA](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-020.jpg)
![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] Source: Vasily Fedosenko](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-018.jpg)
![The Columbia Space Shuttle breaks apart during re entry [2003] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-016.jpg)
![President Bush addresses sailors in the famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, declaring the end of major combat in Iraq. [2003] Source: Unknown Photographer](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-015.jpg)
![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] Source: Damir Sagolj](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-014.jpg)
![U.S. Marine Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad. [2003] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-013.jpg)
![New York City is plunged into darkness after a power failure [2003]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-012.jpg)
![Ballerinas practice with medical masks during the SARS outbreak. [2003]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-011.jpg)
![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] Source: Amit Dave](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-010.jpg)
![A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after 5 years of Taliban Sharia law. [2001] Source: Reuters](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-009.jpg)
![Archaeologists discover some of the oldest artworks known to man in Dordogne, France - over 12,000 years old. [2001]](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-008.jpg)
![Firefighters raise the American flag on the ruins on the World Trade Centers [2001] Source: Thomas Franklin](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-007.jpg)
![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] Source: LIFE](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-006.jpg)
![Zanjeer the bomb dog is laid to rest with full military honours for saving thousands of lives. [2000] Source: Pune Mirror](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-004.jpg)
![The world welcomes in the new millennium. [2000] - Source: Wikimedia](http://www.gizbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/top-75-images-century-003.jpg)
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