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Aug 21, 2023 · Supporters led by the August Twenty One Movement, offer flowers at the NAIA Terminal 1 to commemorate the 40th death anniversary of the late senator Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr. on August 21, 2023.
Ninoy was even allowed to run for a Metro Manila seat in the Interim Batasang Pambansa in 1978. With only his family and a ragtag ticket campaigning for him, the imprisoned Aquino still gave the dictatorship a scare as polls showed him a shoo-in for a Batasan seat and as a noise barrage rocked the metropolis on the eve of election day.
Authored several privilege speeches printed in the “Ninoy Aquino – Speech Series,” 1968-1970s. 1968-1971 Outstanding Senator, voted yearly by the Philippines Free Press, the Philippines’ leading political weekly magazine.
Aug 21, 2020 · Ninoy married Cory in 1954 and they raised five kids, including former President Benigno Aquino III and media personality Kris Aquino. He was known to be the youngest in a number of positions in the country's history –the youngest war correspondent to cover the Korean War for the Manila Times at the age of 17, the youngest mayor of Concepcion at the age of 22, and the youngest senator at the ...
The Horrendous Homecoming. For the next three years in self-imposed exile, Ninoy's love for his country and countrymen did not diminish but only grew stronger. By beginning of 1983, he was determined to return especially after having heard of the declining political situation in the Philippines, as well as Marcos' growing health risk due to lupus.
Aug 21, 2014 · Ninoy staged his second act of defiance by going on a hunger strike. On May 13, 1975, the 40th day of his protest fast, Ninoy’s condition became critical.
In honour of Ninoy Aquino’s death anniversary in 1988, the late journalist Teddy Benigno wrote about the Philippines’ greatest modern-day hero and martyr, in the hope that the country will pay tribute and remember his life, patriotism and sacrifice that helped change the course of our history
