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According to World Bank data, the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) quadrupled from $8 billion in 1972 to $32.45 billion in 1980, for an inflation-adjusted average growth rate of 6% per year. [40] Indeed, according to the U.S.-based Heritage Foundation, the Philippines enjoyed its best economic development since 1945 between 1972 and 1980.
The Philippines currently celebrates its Independence Day on June 12, the anniversary of Emilio Aguinaldo's declaration of independence from Spain in 1898. The declaration was not recognised by the United States which, after defeating the Spanish in the Battle of Manila Bay in May that year, acquired the Philippine Islands via the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish–American War.
[26]: 123 The First Philippine Republic reflected the liberal ideas of the time, valuing private property rights and limiting voting to high-class men, reflecting the growing influence of the elite in the initially anti-elite movement. [1]: 115 Discussions about this first constitution saw calls from the Visayas for federalism. However, this ...
Philippine History and Government (Second ed.). Phoenix Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 971-06-1894-6. Mendoza, Amado, '"People Power" in the Philippines, 1983–86', in Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Independence Day was changed from July 4 (Philippine Republic Day) to June 12 (Philippine Independence Day) on August 4, 1964. [11] January 1 – New Year's Day; February 22 – Legal Holiday; April 9 – Bataan Day; April 7 – Maundy Thursday; April 8 – Good Friday; May 1 – Labor Day; June 12 – Independence Day; July 4 – Philippine ...
Independence Day was changed from July 4 (Philippine Republic Day) to June 12 (Philippine Independence Day) on August 4, 1964. [8] January 1 – New Year's Day; February 22 – Legal Holiday; April 9 – Bataan Day; April 15 – Maundy Thursday; April 16 – Good Friday; May 1 – Labor Day; June 12 – Independence Day; July 4 – Philippine ...
As U.S. nationals following the 1898 annexation of the Philippines, Filipinos held a unique immigration status that differentiated them from other Asian immigrants affected by exclusion acts. Labor Organization and Activism (1920s-1960s) Filipino laborers played crucial roles in agricultural movements, particularly in Hawaii and California.
At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, [1] [2] stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the sectarian "rebellion" of the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM).