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April 23 – Manuel Roxas is elected as the first president of the Third Republic of the Philippines in the presidential elections, as well as the last president (equivalent to governor) of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, defeating incumbent Sergio Osmeña in advance of scheduled independence. [2] April 28 – The University of Batangas is ...
The following events occurred in September 1946: ... The United States turned over $1,121,400,000 worth of surplus U.S. Army property to the Philippines ...
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 7 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.
September 1946 sports events (3 C) Pages in category "September 1946" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Philippines currently celebrates its Independence Day on June 12, the anniversary of Emilio Aguinaldo's declaration of independence from Spain in 1898. The declaration was not recognised by the United States which, after defeating the Spanish in the Battle of Manila Bay in May that year, acquired the Philippine Islands via the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish–American War.
September 8 – Cheche Lazaro, Filipina broadcast journalist; September 13 – Gil Portes, film director (d. 2017) September 15 – Evelyn Fuentebella, Filipino Mayor; September 16 – Carlos Dominguez III, businessman and former chief executive of Philippine Airlines (d. 2021) September 30 – Victor Ziga, Member of the Senate of the Philippines
The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...
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.