1896 - Patriot and propagandist/revolutionary Deodato Arellano y Florentino, co-founder and first president of the underground organization
aspiring for the liberation of the Philippines from Spanish rule, the Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK),
is arrested by colonial authorities; Arellano (de la Cruz) served as Katipunan
head for some four months before being replaced by Ramon Basa, will
later on become the secretary of the Cuerpo de Compromisarios,
a peaceful agitator for change in contrast with the Katipunan,
following the final disbandment of the La Liga Filipino from which both
organizations arose (historians will be divided as to the final days of
Arellano, some believing that he was tortured and left to die by the
Spaniards while others think he served as the paymaster of Gen.
Gregorio del Pilar y Sempio, his wife's nephew whom he earlier trained for propaganda work, dying somewhere in the Bontok mountains in the Cordillera).
1938 - Isabelo de los Reyes, historian, anti-friar agitator, newspaperman, labor leader, politician,
and co-founder of the Philippine Independent Church during the Spanish
colonial rule, dies at age the ripe old age of 74; a lawyer who turned
into journalism, de los Reyes' first article was the "Invasion of
Limahong" that appeared in Diario de Manila in November 1882 but he
would be most controversial for his stirring and pungent anti-friar articles,
including the "Sensecional Memoria" which he wrote while imprisoned
for supposed complicity in the Philippine Revolution of 1896 and where
he blames friars' abuses as responsible for sowing the seeds of
rebellion against Spain; de los Reyes would be would later be released
and even be appointed Consejo del Ministerio de Ultramar in the Spanish Cabinet from 1898-1901, before being named President of the Republic of the Philippines by some generals
following Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo's arrest and swear of allegiance to
the imperialist invading United States flag during the early phase of
protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914).
Photo credit: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15129/15129-h/15129-h.htm
1938 - Isabelo de los Reyes, historian, anti-friar agitator, newspaperman, labor leader, politician,
and co-founder of the Philippine Independent Church during the Spanish
colonial rule, dies at age the ripe old age of 74; a lawyer who turned
into journalism, de los Reyes' first article was the "Invasion of
Limahong" that appeared in Diario de Manila in November 1882 but he
would be most controversial for his stirring and pungent anti-friar articles,
including the "Sensecional Memoria" which he wrote while imprisoned
for supposed complicity in the Philippine Revolution of 1896 and where
he blames friars' abuses as responsible for sowing the seeds of
rebellion against Spain; de los Reyes would be would later be released
and even be appointed Consejo del Ministerio de Ultramar in the Spanish Cabinet from 1898-1901, before being named President of the Republic of the Philippines by some generals
following Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo's arrest and swear of allegiance to
the imperialist invading United States flag during the early phase of
protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914).Photo credit: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15129/15129-h/15129-h.htm
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