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A 25-year-old unemployed man dies after setting himself on fire in the northern city of Alexandria. A second man, a lawyer in his forties, sets himself on fire outside government headquarters in Cairo. People recognize this as an outcry for change.
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People in Egybt began protest. Police responded with blasts from water cannons and set upon crowds with batons and acrid clouds of tear gas to clear demonstrators and demanding an end to Egypt's grinding poverty, corruption, unemployment and police abuses.
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The news of the Internet outage came minutes after the Associated Press published a video of an Egyptian protestor being shot.
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The "March of a Million" brings the power struggle to boiling point. Mubarak announces in a televised address to the nation that he will not run for another term as president. This concession does not satisfy the opposition. Around midnight, street battles erupt with Mubarak supporters
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After a six-day shutdown and a pledge that President Hosni Mubarak won't seek re-election, Egyptians now can use Internet services again.
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Mubarak supporters ride on camel and horseback into the crowd occupying Tahrir Square. Heavy street battles break out. The army, stationed on the square with tanks, stays out of the fighting. There are dead and hundreds of injured. During a telephone conversation, Barack Obama calls on Mubarak to begin the transition to democracy without delay.
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Thousands of demonstrators continue to occupy Tahrir Square peacefully. The United Nations reported 300 dead. High party functionaries resign. And luckily banks open for the first time in days and traffic police patrol the streets of Cairo again.
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Mubarak says national dialogue underway, transfers powers to vice-president but he refuses to leave office immediately as protesters demand.
