PEOPLE Yearbook: The Most Memorable Moments of 2016 & Those We Lost in 2016

By The Editors of PEOPLE

People highlights the memorable and significant moments of 2016 and profiles those we lost this year.

• Language: English
• Publisher: People
• Release date: Jan 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781683307280

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MOMENTS OF THE YEAR

WE CAME TOGETHER FOR THE JUMPING JOY OF U.S. GYMNASTS IN RIO, AND IN SOMBER VIGIL FOLLOWING SENSELESS VIOLENCE. BUT WE WERE SPLIT OVER A SURPRISING ELECTION OUTCOME

PRESIDENT-ELECT With Vice President-elect Mike Pence to his right and his family to his left, Donald Trump urged reconciliation in his victory speech. After a brutal campaign, now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division.

TRUMP’S SHOCKING VICTORY

Nov. 8

HAT TRICK Trump (in Arizona March 19) sold his Make America Great Again caps for $25 and also sold supporters on his vision of a more secure future.

He called her a nasty woman. She called some of his supporters deplorables. On each side, in Twitter profiles or on T-shirts, voters adopted those labels proudly, if bitterly. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fought a vitriolic presidential campaign that often felt less about issues facing Americans than about accusations that he had sexually assaulted several women and that she had mismanaged e-mail while Secretary of State. She was trying to make history by capping a long career in public service as the nation’s first female Commander in Chief; he, brandishing his lack of political experience as a point of pride, would be the first reality TV star to hold the job. In the finale came a twist virtually no one—not even the candidate who preemptively suggested the election was rigged—could have predicted: Donald Trump won.

It’s going to be a beautiful thing, promised President-elect Trump, 70, in a 3 a.m. victory speech in New York City. Those who believed he would, as he said, make America great again cheered. Others reeled, noting that Trump’s road to 290 electoral votes was paved with insults to women, people with disabilities and prisoners of war, as well as threats to Mexicans, Muslims and Clinton herself, who he said should be in jail. Clinton, who led the popular vote, allowed in her concession that the loss was painful but added, We must accept this result. . . . Donald Trump is going to be our President. We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.

FACING OFF Clashes between Trump supporters and protesters grew so heated at the University of Illinois at Chicago (on March 11) that Trump chose to cancel a planned rally.

TWITTER CAMPAIGN After calling undocumented Mexicans drug dealers, rapists and killers, Trump praised his restaurant’s taco bowls on Cinco de Mayo, tweeting: I love Hispanics!

CLINTONS UNITED A month after giving birth to son Aidan, Chelsea Clinton described her mother as warm and loving in a speech at the DNC.

BERNIE AND THE BIRD A bird landed on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s podium during a March campaign rally in Portland, Ore., and the meme #birdiesanders was born. That bird is really a dove asking us for world peace, said Sanders.

THEY’RE WITH HER Former President Bill Clinton and his wife’s running mate, Virginia senator Tim Kaine, cheered as the candidate accepted her party’s nomination in Philadelphia on July 28.

ON THE TRAIL Melania Trump (top left) said at the Republican convention, My parents impressed on me the values that you work hard . . . that your word is your bond, echoing a few lines from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama (top right, stumping for Clinton Oct. 27). Khizr Khan (above, with wife Ghazala at the Democratic convention), whose son died fighting for the U.S. in Iraq, held the Constitution and told Trump, who said he’d ban Muslims from this country, You have sacrificed nothing and no one.

THE WINNER I say it is time for us to come together as one united people, said the President-elect in a 3 a.m. speech on Nov. 9 after Clinton’s concession call to him.

RED STATE ROAR Though Trump’s home-town of New York City went for his opponent, his elated supporters celebrated there as the national map turned in their favor. Who knows? he said early on. But I think we are going to do very well.

OUT IN THE STREETS Protests near N.Y.C.’s Trump Tower began within hours of Trump’s win. He first called the demonstrations there, and later in other cities, very unfair! but then tweeted: Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country.

‘TO ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS WHO ARE WATCHING THIS, NEVER DOUBT THAT YOU ARE VALUABLE AND POWERFUL AND DESERVING OF EVERY CHANCE AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE WORLD TO PURSUE AND ACHIEVE YOUR OWN DREAMS’

— HILLARY CLINTON

MR. TRUMP GOES TO WASHINGTON Two days after the election Trump went to the White House to meet President Barack Obama.