1874 - The speech of Filipino mason Jacobo Zobel de Zangroniz attacking the colonial Spanish clergy for exploiting the natives is reproduced in a letter; in his speech originally delivered before a masonic lodge of which he was secretary, Zangroniz expresses his belief in how the friars made the Spanish government believe that the Southeast Asian nation is in a state of insurrection and that they alone can supposedly address it.
1896 - Spanish colonial Gov.-Gen. Ramon Blanco decrees the immediate execution by firing squad of any one who destroys public buildings and other infrastructures and support or join the revolution against Spain some two months after the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution led by Katipunan Supremo Andres Bonifacio; Blanco had earlier placed eight provinces of Luzon islands in a state of war and martial law and ordered the immediate confiscation of the properties of Filipinos who have joined the revolution, with the revenues supposedly to be used to finance the suppressing of the revolution.
1901 - Imperialist Gen. Jacob H. "Howling" Smith carries out his infamous and most vile and atrocious policy to "Kill every one [Filipinos] over ten" in the province of Samar two years and eight months into the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914); known euphemistically as the "Balanggiga Affair," the wicked campaign is part of United States' revengeful invasion of Samar following the successful attack launched by freedom-fighting townspeople of Balanginga that killed several of the enemy Bald Eagle forces in a surprise attack on a convent house where they were headquartered a month earlier; Smith's burn and kill order that covered all Filipinos who do not surrender did not spare children 10 years of age and will convert the province into a "howling wilderness."
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