23 MAY

1979 - Muslim Tausug leader Princess Tarhata Kiram, a strong-willed and liberal-minded early Filipina feminist, dies of heart failure at age 75 at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Quezon City, Metro Manila; a heir of the original rulers of the island of Sabah (now part of Malaysia) and the first woman pensionado (educated in the imperialist United States) during the American colonial period, she became known in local politics for finding ways to plug the laws disadvantageous to the Muslims.