On this day of 1986, former Antique governor Evelio Javier, along with his friends, was shot in broad daylight at San Jose Plaza (now Evelio Javier...
October 23, 1944, the Philippine Commonwealth was restored in Leyte On October 23, 1944, the Philippine Commonwealth government was restored in Tacloban, Leyte (Tacloban City) by General...
October 22, 2002 Severino Marcelo died at the age of 62 in Manila
October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur landed in Palo, Leyte to reclaim the Philippines from the Japanese.
16, 1948, Calbayog City in the island of Samar, was created from the 3 contiguous towns of Calbayog, Oquendo and Tinambacan through Republic Act No. 328....
October 3, 1900, Mabini was released from prison upon orders of the American authorities
On September 30, 1876, Sofia Reyes de Veyra, educator, social worker and first secretary and co-founder (with Mary E. Coleman) ofAsociacion Feminista Filipina, was born in...
On September 18, 1891, the second novel of Dr. Jose Rizal, El Filibusterismo (Reign of Greed), written in Spanish and a sequel to Noli Me Tangere,...
On September 16, 1635, Father Pedro Chirino, author of one of the first history books of the Philippines, died in Manila. Chirino a Jesuit missionary, wrote...
On September 14, 1815, the galleon trade between the Philippines and Mexico ended a few years before Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821. The Spanish...
