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Imperialist Civil Gov.-Gen William Forbes (right, back row) |
1909 - Ten years into the bloody and protracted
Philippine-American War (1899-1914), the imperialist United States-installed
colonial civil government of Gov.-Gen. Cameron Forbes recommends the reconstruction of Jose Protacio Rizal's house in Dapitan where the Filipino hero was exiled during the Spanish colonial era; Rizal would be an "American-sponsored" figure to be made as the Philippines' "national hero" by the Bald Eagle colonial
government, chosen over the 'too radical' Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, Supremo of the underground-society-turned-revolutionary-government fighting the Spanish rule, the Kataastaasang, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK), and the 'Sublime Paralytic'
Apolinario Mabini y Maranan who will be considered by the imperialists as 'unregenerate;'
-- 54 years earlier, on July 28, 1855, Juan B. Marcaido is granted a gold medal for his efforts and studies on the method
of banana fiber extraction by the Economics Society of Friends of the
Country; on July 28, 1963, 24 Philippine Boy Scouts and Scouter
delegates to the 11th Boys Scout World Jamboree in Marathon, Greece, perish in a airplane crash in the Arabian Sea.
Photo credit: http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwjq561.jpg
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