6 DECEMBER
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Eduard Douwes Dekker |
1888 - Filipino patriot and polymath Jose Rizal writes his Austrian friend Ferdinand Blumentritt that he is sending a Dutch-authored book he describes as far better than his own Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not); the book referred to is the book of Multatuli's (=Eduard Douwes Dekker), which resembles the Noli but of a less virulent tone; Rizal also briefly mentions about his election as director of a Madrid-based Filipino periodical.
1898 - Debates in the Senate hall of the imperialist United States begin on the issue of American 'authority' to acquire territories and the right of the people of the fledgling Philippine Republic to live independently and freely; a day
earlier, McKinley claimed with wicked-level gall before the U.S. Congress that they own the Philippines by force of law and equity ; some two weeks earlier, the government of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo appointed a diplomat "to seek official recognition of the independence and government of the Philippines and to prepare the establishment of relations with them" but as Felipe Agoncillo found no signs of US moving to recognize the sovereignty of the country, he helped form a Commission that would travel to Washington and work at seeking American recognition of Filipino independence.
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