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Bonifacio Day was added through Philippine Legislature Act No. 2946. It was signed by then-Governor General Francis Burton Harrison in 1921. [3] On October 28, 1931, the Act No. 3827 was approved declaring the last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day. [4] January 1 – New Year's Day; February 22 – Legal Holiday; April 18 – Maundy Thursday
Working holiday marking the official formation in 1935 of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, marked by parades around the country. School and university Christmas parties are held before the date as this holiday marks the start of/or forms part of the Christmas holiday break for many educational institutions.
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On April 9, 2002, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo proclaimed that the Philippine–American War had ended on April 16, 1902, with the surrender of General Miguel Malvar, and declared the centennial anniversary of that date as a national working holiday and as a special non-working holiday in the province of Batangas and in the ...
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The Philippine Islands were an American possession from 1898 to 1946, first as a territory and then as a commonwealth beginning in 1935. Between 1941 and 1945 during the Second World War, the Empire of Japan occupied the Islands; the Commonwealth government-in-exile headed by President Manuel Luis Quezon was based in Australia and later in the United States.
On February 8, 1935, the 1935 Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines was approved by the convention by a vote of 177 to 1. The constitution was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 25, 1935, and ratified by popular vote on May 14, 1935. [27] [28] On September 16, 1935, [10] presidential elections were held.