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[3] [4] The president is directly elected by qualified voters to a six-year term and must be "a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least forty years of age on the day of the election, and a resident of the Philippines for at least ten years immediately preceding such election". No elected ...
Joseph Estrada — 13th President of the Philippines, 9th Vice President of the Philippines, 26th Mayor of Manila, 14th San Juan Mayor, action star actor; Bongbong Marcos — 17th President of the Philippines, former House Representative of the 2nd district of Ilocos Norte, former Governor of Ilocos Norte, and former Philippine senator
Violeta Marcos, AMP (Pandi) – Filipino Roman Catholic nun best known as the co-founder and first director of the Augustinian Missionaries of the Philippines, [1] and for her contributions to the resistance in opposition to the martial Law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos - first through her diocesan social action involvements in Negros ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Let Freedom Ring. Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "Nineteenth," is a 159-year-old holiday that celebrates the liberation of the last group of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
The holiday—sometimes referred to as Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day—was deemed a federal holiday in 2021 when President Biden signed it into legislation on June 17.
Jose P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines; Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines; Edward Perkins, former United States Ambassador and director of the United States Diplomatic Corps; Russell Peterson, 66th Governor of Delaware; Fidel V. Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines; Harry Reid, United States Senate Majority Leader
On June 19, or Juneteenth as it's more colloquially known, we celebrate the final emancipation of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 when word reached the state that the Civil War was ...