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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.
November 30 is the 334th day of the year ... television actor and criminal (d. 2021) [34] 1931 – Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (d. 2018) ... Bonifacio Day ...
January 4 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11510, institutionalizing the alternative learning system (ALS). [2] [3]January 18 – The Department of National Defense announces its unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines which took effect three days earlier over claims that the New People's Army is recruiting members in the universities' campuses.
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.
2021 Oxford High School shooting. Four students are killed and seven others injured in a mass shooting at a high school in Oxford, Michigan, United States. (Detroit Free Press) Politics and elections. 2022 Philippine presidential election. Bong Go withdraws his candidacy from the presidential election, stating that he is waiting for "a sign ...
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 November 11, 2021, President Duterte signed Executive Order No. 151 approving the nationwide implementation of the ALS across all regions in the Philippines with its expansion to the Ilocos, Eastern Visayas, and Soccsksargen regions and later on to the Cagayan Valley, Bicol, and the Zamboanga Peninsula regions in the week after.
June 12: Protesters held a rally on Independence Day regarding the West Philippine Sea territorial dispute. [317] June 17: Various groups held a rally to condemn the killings of three Lumads in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, by state forces. [318] June 30: Several groups held a rally on the day of the 5th-year mark of the Duterte presidency. [319]