6. Independence Day Date Change In 1962, President Diosdado Macapagal changed the date of Philippine Independence Day from July 4th to June 12th to honor the original declaration from 1898. 7. The ...

Macapagal moved the celebration to June 12 in order to commemorate Emilio Aguinaldo’s original proclamation of Philippine independence from Spain on the same date in 1898. In his 1962 Independence Day ...

FILIPINOS need not be uneasy or apologetic about the fact that their declaration of independence went through a rigorous process of revision before it was certified as final. Other nations and peoples ...

led by the highly coveted works of National Artist Fernando Amorsolo and a one-of-a-kind copy of the 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence. Amorsolo’s 1929 “Under the Mango Tree ...

When the United States and Spain went to war over Cuba, the Philippines joined the side of the U.S. On June 12, 1898, Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Philippine islands, and in January ...