PHOTOS: Record fireworks show lights up DC for America's 250th birthday

The nation’s capital was lit up by a record number of fireworks to commemorate the United States’s 250th birthday after several weather-related delays.

President Donald Trump watched over the fireworks, which his Freedom 250 task force said would feature over 850,000 pyrotechnic effects launched from 10 locations from the National Mall to West Potomac Park across 40 minutes. In comparison, the standard fireworks celebration in the capital is 17 minutes long and features around 17,000 to 20,000 fireworks being set off.

The display was aimed at being not only the largest fireworks show in Washington, D.C., history but also world history.

The previous record was held by the Iglesia Ni Cristo, a church in the Philippines, which set off 810,904 fireworks in 2016.

The Guinness Book of World Records has yet to officiate the new record, as the process often takes several days.