2017 was undoubtedly a wild year.
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The 50 most incredible photos of 2017
Perhaps most notably, President Donald Trump was inaugurated, which has led to a seemingly never ending string of debates and controversies.
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President Donald Trump was inaugurated, which has led to a seemingly never ending string of debates and controversies: the crowd size at his inauguration, the travel ban, his war of words with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, and so on.
But there were many other events not necessarily related to Trump that unfolded as well: the Rohingya genocide, multiple mass shootings and terror attacks, hurricanes, the Mayweather/McGregor fight, and more.
As 2017 comes to a close, we rounded up 50 of the most incredible photos from the year.
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Check them out below.
President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he delivers his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois, on January 10.
Watch Obama's speech here.
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as he is extradited to New York on January 19.
Read more about Chapo's extradition here.
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Attendees partake in the inauguration ceremonies to swear in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the US at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 20.
Read more about the controversy over the crowd size here.
Former President George W. Bush keeps covered in the rain as he sits at the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20.
Read more about the photo here.
President Donald Trump takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, as his wife Melania holds the bible on January 20 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Women wearing pink pussy protest hats gather in front of the US Capitol for the Women's March on Washington on January 21.
Read more about the march here.
Specialist Frank Masiello wears a Dow 20,000 cap as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 25.
Read more about the DOW hitting 20,000 here.
Trump sits with group of senior staff members in the Oval Office on January 28 — most of whom have since left the White House.
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Demonstrators gather outside the Los Angeles International Airport on January 29 to protest against Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Read more about the travel ban and protests here.
Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe read classified documents with camera lights on their phones on February 13.
Read more about the photo here.
Doan Thi Huong, one of two women accused of assassinating the brother of Kim Jong Un, is captured by an airport security camera in Malaysia on February 13.
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Read more about the assassination of Kim Jong Nam here.
'La La Land' producer Jordan Horowitz holds up the winner card reading actual Best Picture winner 'Moonlight' with actor Warren Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel onstage during the 89th Annual Academy Awards on February 26.
Read more about the Oscars screw up here.
Senior advisor Kellyanne Conway sits on the couch as Trump welcomes the leaders of dozens of historically black colleges and universities in the Oval Office on February 27.
Read more about the photo here.
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Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 20.
Trump reacts as he sits on a truck while he welcomes truckers and CEOs to attend a meeting regarding healthcare at the White House on March 23.
Learn more about the incident here.
Jared Kushner wearing a bullet proof vest meets with US military leaders and diplomats at a forward operating base near Qayyarah West in Iraq, on April 4.
Read more about Kushner's trip here.
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Trump receives a briefing on the Syria military strike from his National Security team after the strike at Mar-a-Lago on April 6.
Read more about the cruise missile strike on Syrian forces here.
Vice President Mike Pence takes a selfie with US servicemen on the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan in Japan on April 19 after delivering his "sword stands at the ready" speech directed at North Korea.
Read more about Pence's speech here.
Emmanuel Macron acknowledges supporters at the Louvre in Paris after winning the French Presidential Election on May 7.
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Read more about Macron's victory here.
Trump puts his hands on glowing orb with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Ridyah on May 22.
Read more about the incident here.
Trump and Macron share a white-knuckled handshake during their first meeting on May 25.
Read more about the handshake here.
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Trump pushes past Montenegro's Prime Minister Dusko Markovic during a NATO Summit on May 25.
Read more about the incident here.
People leave the area with their hands up after the London Bridge terror attack on June 4.
Read more about the terror attack here.
Residents of San Francisco watch former FBI Director James Comey's testimony about before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8.
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See the photo story here.
Flames and smoke billow as firefighters deal with a serious fire in the Grenfell Tower apartment block in West London on June 14.
Read more about the incident here.
A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter sit as medics treat his comrades injured by ISIS sniper at a field hospital in Raqqa, Syria on June 28.
See the collection of photos here.
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Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Luis Stefanelli (left) gestures next to fellow opposition lawmaker Leonardo Regnault after a group of government supporters burst into Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela on July 5.
Read more about the incident here.
Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time at the G20 Summit in Hamburg on July 7.
Read more about their first meeting here.
Republican John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins joined Democrats in voting down the GOP healthcare repeal bill measure on July 28.
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Read more about the vote here.
A protester shoots flames at a right-wing protester in Charlottesville on August 12.
Read more about the violence that erupted in Charlottesville here.
Trump looks up towards the solar eclipse without his protective glasses on August 21.
Read more about the solar eclipse here.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. throws a punch at Conor McGregor during their super welterweight boxing match on August 26 in Las Vegas.
Read more about the fight here.
An elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey while waiting to be rescued in Houston on August 27.
Read more about the destruction from Hurricane Harvey here.
Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania, walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on August 29.
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Read more about the photo here.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile on August 29.
Read more about the story here.
The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course in North Bonneville, Washington on September 4.
Colleen Flanagan of Boston, and other activists in wheelchairs opposed to the GOP's Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill, are removed after disrupting a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the last-ditch GOP push to overhaul the nation's health care system on September 25.
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Read more about the incident here.
A rescue worker places the body of a Rohingya boy, who died after his boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal while fleeing Myanmar, onto a stretcher on September 28.
Read more about the genocide of the Rohingya here.
Jacksonville Jaguars players kneel during the national anthem before their NFL football game against the New York Jets on October 1.
Read more about the NFL kneeling controversy here.
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A man lays on top of a woman as others flee an active shooter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds on October 1 in Las Vegas.
Read more about the mass shooting here.
Trump tosses rolls of paper towels like basketballs to victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on October 3.
Read more about the incident here.
Air Force One departs Las Vegas past the broken windows on the Mandalay Bay hotel, where shooter Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip ion October 4.
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Read more about the picture here.
Somali civilians flee after two truck bombs exploded in Mogadishu on October 15, which killed 358 people in the deadliest terror attack ever in the country.
Read more about the terror attack here.
Paul Manafort makes his way from Federal District Court in Washington on October 30 after being indicted on felony charges of conspiracy against the United States.
Read more about Manafort's indictment here.
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OJ Simpson enters for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada on July 20. Simpson was released from prison on October 1 after serving nine years for armed robbery.
Read more about Simpson's release here.
Mourners gather at a vigil in memory of the victims killed in the mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas on November 6.
Read more about the mass shooting here.
An Australian cyclist rides around members of the gay community and their supporters after the country legalized gay marriage on November 15.
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Read more about Australia legalizing gay marriage here.
Zimbabweans drink, dance, sing and ride on cars as they celebrate on November 21 after Robert Mugabe's resignation.
Read more about Mugabe's fall from power here.
Collected slippers of worshippers killed in the Al Rawdah mosque terror attack in Egypt are seen during the first Friday prayer on December 1 after the attack.
Read more about the terror attack here.
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Undercover Israeli security personnel detain a Palestinian demonstrator and points his gun at Reuters photographer during a protest against Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on December 13.
Read more about the incident here.
And read more about Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel here.
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