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| Photo art: Jesusa Bernardo |
1863 - Future Filipino revolutionary supreme leader and unacknowledged First President (revolutionary government) Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, is born in Manila, the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period; born to Catalina de Castro, a Spanish mestiza, and Santiago Bonifacio a tailor who serves as a teniente mayor (municipal official) of Tondo, Bonifacio is the eldest in what would be a brood of four boys and one girl would who become orphan at a young age; the future "Father of the Philippine Revolution" against Spain would self study and support his siblings by engaging in the family business of selling fans and canes before helping establish the secret society Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK) and ultimately turning it into a revolutionary government following its premature discovery in the latter part of 1896.
Original Photo Source: http://www.museo-oriental.es/ver_didactica.asp?clave=138&loc=0
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