It was always going to be a different kind of ceremony – absent of thronging crowds, dignitaries in masks, chairs placed at strategic distances for those who were there.
But that didn’t mean the day was any less memorable. Under a clear but icy Washington, DC, sky the inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th president of the United States was a day of many firsts, a day when promises of unity and healing ran like a thread throughout the proceedings, a day when stars were made and unlikely heroes rose to the occasion.
Records tumbled left, right and centre.