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The EDSA Revolution Anniversary was proclaimed since 2002 as a special non-working holiday. [25] Note that in the list, holidays in bold are "regular holidays" and those in italics are "nationwide special days". January 1 – New Year's Day; February 25 – EDSA Revolution Anniversary; April 9. Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) Maundy Thursday
Corazon Aquino was inaugurated as the 11th president of the Philippines on February 25, ... Anniversary is a special public holiday in the Philippines. From 2002 to ...
February 25 is the 56th day of the year in ... Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female ... [25] 2009 – Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at ...
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 9 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
The holiday was created by Republic Act No. 9256, which was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on February 25, 2004, twenty-one years after his death and eighteen years after the People Power Revolution, and was sponsored by Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Jose de Venecia. It requires an EDSA People Power ...
She would sign into law Republic Act 9492 the Holiday Economics Law on July 24, 2007 [3] which allows the observance of otherwise fixed public holidays except for New Year's Day on January 1, All Saint's Day on November 1, Christmas Day on December 25, and the last day of the year, December 31 to the nearest Monday.
The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs during January 2009, with unemployment rising to 7.6 percent. (New York Times) Canada's economy lost 129,000 jobs during January 2009, an all-time record, with unemployment rising to 7.2 percent. (AP via Google News) Bankruptcies in the United Kingdom rose during 2008 by 50 percent to an all-time high. (ABC ...
Japan's exports plunged 45.7% in January 2009. The U.S. State Department criticizes China's human rights record. Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab seizes Hudur, Somalia. The U.S. arrests 750 people in a national crackdown on Mexican drug cartels.