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Official NCT Name Image Current location Period Description Ref Alcaiceria de San Fernando Marker of 1762 (from Binondo) : National Museum, Padre Burgos Avenue, Ermita, Manila
The academy is located in the city of Baguio, [4] and serves as the primary training school for future officers of the AFP. [5] [6] Melchor Hall, PMA. The academy traces its roots to 1898, when Emilio Aguinaldo decreed the establishment of the Academia Militar in the Philippines.
November 7 – President Ferdinand Marcos issues Presidential Decree 824 creating the Metropolitan Manila Commission (MMC). It integrates the city of Manila and adjacent Quezon City with the cities of Pasay and Caloocan and municipalities of Makati, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Las Piñas, Malabon, Navotas, Pasig, Pateros, Parañaque, Marikina, Muntinlupa, and Taguig from the province of Rizal and ...
On October 11, 1945, the Philippines became one of the founding members of the United Nations. [134] [135] On July 4, 1946, the Philippines was officially recognized by the United States as an independent nation through the Treaty of Manila between the governments of the United States and the Philippine islands, during the presidency of Manuel ...
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.
American forces land on the beaches in Dulag, Leyte, the Philippines, accompanied by Filipino troops entering the town, and fiercely opposed by the Japanese occupation forces. The combined forces liberate Tacloban. October 23 – The Commonwealth government of the Philippines is re-established in Tacloban, Leyte.
March 22 – Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, Senator of the Philippines and Senate President (b. 1907) [15] July 6 – Fort Acuña, professional basketball player and coach (b. 1948) July 25 – Gerardo de León, film director and actor (b. 1913) December 30 – Alfie Anido, actor (b. 1959)
The day is officially celebrated every April 9, the start of the Bataan Death March, although the date was moved on several occasions to avoid it from coinciding with the observance of the Holy Week in the country, especially the Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, such as in 2004, 2009, 2020, and 2023. [1] [2] [3]