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A timeline of Mubarak's rise and rule Hosni Mubarak came to power in Egypt nearly 30 years ago. Here's a look at his tenure.
Dec. 14, 1977
President Anwar Sadat, left, confers with Hosni Mubarak, then Egypt's vice president, during a trip aboard Sadat's helicopter.
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Oct. 6, 1981
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, right, and Mubarak, the vice president, watch a military parade from a reviewing stand in Cairo just before soldiers opened fire from a truck, killing Sadat and injuring Mubarak.
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Oct. 6 1981
While one gunman fires an automatic weapon across the top of the reviewing stand, another gunman moves to the left of the stand. After Sadat's death, Mubarak assumed the presidency.
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AP
Oct. 14, 1981
Mubarak addresses the People's Assembly in Cairo, during his swearing-in as president after Sadat's assassination.
Bill Foley
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AP
Feb. 14, 1984
King Hussein of Jordan and Mubarak visit President Ronald Reagan at the White House. Mubarak had often served as a crucial U.S. ally in the Middle East.
James A. Parcell
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April 6, 1987
Police hold back Egyptians shouting slogans in favor of Mubarak outside the polling station where he cast his vote in parliamentary elections in Cairo.
Khaled Abu Seif
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Reuters
April 4, 1989
President George Bush walks with Mubarak as they arrive at the White House after spending the afternoon attending a baseball game.
Doug Mills
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Associated Press
July 24, 1990
Mubarak is greeted in Baghdad by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who had massed troops, tanks and anti-aircraft missiles on the border with Kuwait shortly before the Persian Gulf War began. Mubarak was trying to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis.
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May 12, 1992
Diana, Princess of Wales, listens to Mubarak during her visit in Egypt.
Mona Sharaf
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April 6, 1993
Mubarak and President Bill Clinton hold a joint news conference at the White House.
James M. Thresher
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The Washington Post
Oct. 6, 1993
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, left, joins Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to sit for photographers at the start of a historic meeting in Cairo.
Denis Paquin
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Associated Press
Oct. 25, 1993
President Bill Clinton escorts Mubarak from the Oval Office after their meeting.
Frank Johnston
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The Washington Post
June 26, 1995
Gunmen tried to assassinate Mubarak as his motorcade drove from Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia on his way to the opening of an Organization of African Unity summit of African leaders. Above, a bullet hole in the windshield of the car of the attackers, two of whom were killed when security agents shot back.
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Agence France-Presse
Sept. 28, 1995
President Bill Clinton watches as Mubarak, right, shakes hands with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the East Room of the White House after the signing of the Middle East peace accords. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and King Hussein of Jordan look on.
Doug Mills
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Associated Press
Feb. 24, 2000
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Pope John Paul II meet following the pope's arrival at Cairo International Airport for a three-day visit to Egypt.
Gabriel Bouys
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AFP/Getty Images
March 9, 2000
Mubarak shakes hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak after a three-way summit Egypt hosted in the desert resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Jim Hollander
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Reuters
June 20, 2000
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, right, listens to his Egyptian counterpart Mubarak during the second day of the G-15 summit in Cairo.
Amr Nabil
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AP
Oct. 4, 2001
Mubarak meets with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld at the Itehadeya presidential palace in Cairo about international efforts in the fight against al-Qaeda shortly after Sept. 11.
Aladin Abdel Naby
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Reuters
Oct. 9, 2001
Mubarak talks to the press as Japan's former prime minister and special envoy to the Middle East Ryutaro Hashimoto, left, looks on, during the inauguration of a suspension bridge across the Suez Canal near the town of Ismailiya.
Mona Mursi
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Agence France Presse
June 8, 2002
President George W. Bush and Mubarak speak to the media at Camp David. Mubarak was pushing his case for jump-starting the Middle East peace process by declaring a Palestinian state before its final borders were set.
Hyungwon Kang
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Reuters
Feb. 8, 2003
Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II chat at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba. They were holding talks amid a flurry of Arab diplomatic activity to avert a U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Yousef Allan
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Reuters
June 3, 2003
President George W. Bush drives himself and Mubarak to make a statement with Middle Eastern leaders on an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Amr Nabil
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Associated Press
May 25, 2005
A video grab from Egyptian TV shows Mubarak voting in Cairo in the country's referendum on whether to introduce direct presidential elections with more than one candidate.
ETV
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Reuters
Sept. 1, 2005
Hundreds of protesters from the Muslim Brotherhood and opposition movement Kefaya demonstrate in Cairo against the Egyptian government and Mubarak, just before the country's first multi-candidate presidential election.
Mona Sharaf
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Reuters
Sept. 6, 2005
A Nile cruise passes a giant poster promoting Mubarak in Cairo a day before 10 candidates competed in the country's first multi-candidate presidential elections.
Amr Nabil
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Associated Press
Dec. 8, 2005
Mubarak and former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman attend a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the holy Saudi city of Mecca.
Hassan Ammar
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April 25, 2006
Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, visit victims of terrorist bomb attacks in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. A triple bombing in the Sinai tourist resort of Dahab killed about two dozen people and wounded scores.
Tara Todras-Whitehill
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Reuters
March 27, 2007
Saudi King Abdullah, right, welcomes Mubarak at the Riyadh airport ahead of an Arab summit held in Saudi Arabia.
Hassan Ammar
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May 18, 2008
Mubarak speaks during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
Sept. 1, 2010
Mubarak and President Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House.
Susan Walsh
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AP
Feb. 1, 2011
In January 2011, protesters in Cairo demanded Mubarak's resignation. Though he initially refused, in February Mubarak resigned and power was turned over to the egyptian military. Here, Mubarak addresses the nation in this still image taken from video.
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Reuters
Aug. 3, 2011
Former president Hosni Mubarak pleaded "not guilty" along with his sons to charges of murder and corruption, in the historic trial of the former strongman. Hundreds of Mubarak supporters and opponents clashed outside the courtroom, throwing stones and bottles at each other.
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June 2, 2012
An Egyptian judge convicted Mubarak of complicity in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule and sentenced him to life in prison.
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