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From 2002 to 2023, the holiday has been declared a special non-working holiday. [111] [112] It was not included in the list of holidays in 2024 declared by President Bongbong Marcos in his proclamation, citing that it “falls on a Sunday,” [113] which is considered as a rest day for most laborers, while maintaining respect for its commemoration.
The holiday was created by Republic Act No. 9256, which was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on February 25, 2004, twenty-one years after his death and eighteen years after the People Power Revolution, and was sponsored by Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Jose de Venecia. It requires an EDSA People Power ...
On February 25, 1986, Corazon Aquino was sworn in as president by Senior Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee, although Marcos tried to stage his own inauguration an hour later. Enrile wanted Corazon Aquino to hold her inauguration as new president in Camp Crame, but Aquino refused, emphasizing that the People Power Revolution was a civilian ...
Marcos continually maintained that he was the duly elected president for a fourth term, but unfairly and illegally deprived of his right to serve it. On February 25, 1986, rival presidential inaugurations were held, [285] but as Aquino supporters overran parts of Manila and seized state broadcaster PTV-4, Marcos was forced to flee. [286]
This timeline of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines covers three periods of Philippine history in which Marcos wielded political control. First, it covers the period of Marcos' first two terms—1965 to 1969 and 1969 to 1972—under the 1935 Constitution, as well as the antecedent events which brought Marcos to political power.
Keep reading for a full list of the daily holidays and observances in February 2024: Woman's Day. February 1. Time to Talk Day. ... February 25. Let's All Eat Right Day. Quiet Day.
February 25 is the 56th day of the ... forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian ... Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation ...
February 17. Presidents’ Day. Random Acts of Kindness Day. World Human Spirit Day. My Way Day. February 18. Drink Wine Day. Battery Day. Pluto Day. February 19. Coast Guard Reserve Birthday ...