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On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 9 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
November 1 – All Saints Day; November 2 – All Souls' Day (Reverted to, yet declared as "additional" special non-working day.) December 8 – Feast of the Immaculate Conception; December 26 – Special non-working day (By virtue of a later proclamation.) [255] December 31 – Last Day of the Year (Reverted to being a special non-working ...
Bonifacio Day is a national holiday in the Philippines, commemorating Andrés Bonifacio, one of the country's national heroes. He was the founder and eventual Supremo of the Katipunan, a secret society that triggered the Philippine Revolution of 1896 against the Spanish Empire. It is celebrated every November 30, the birth anniversary of Bonifacio.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reintroduced the holiday economics policy by issuing Proclamation No. 90 on November 11, 2022 which concerns the observance of public holidays for 2023. [9] This was enacted as a means to boost the domestic tourism industry which was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns .
The observance of National Heroes Day was already present during the American colonial period. Act No. 3827 by the Philippine Legislature enacted on October 28, 1931, designated every last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day. [6] However, Bonifacio Day established by virtue of Act No. 2946 of 1921 was also dedicated to anonymous Filipino ...
On October 13, 2023, the national government released through Proclamation No. 368, series of 2023 dated October 11, 2023 declaring the regular, national, special, and additional special days. The EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary is dropped from the list of special non-working holidays.
An Act declaring April 16 of every year a special nonworking holiday in the City of Marikina, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 10788, entitled "An Act declaring April 16 of every year a special holiday and no class day in schools in the City of Marikina in commemoration of its founding anniversary to be known as 'Marikina City Day'" [159]
On October 31, the national government publicly released the list of holidays and non-working days, which are indicated by proclamations signed by the president a day earlier. Proclamation No. 727, series of 2024, contains the general list, [32] with the People Power anniversary, which was not declared a holiday for 2024, being returned but as ...