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Article: 42nd Death Anniversary of General Emilio F. Aguinaldo, First President of the Philippines.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- February 6, 2006
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HE was 95 years old when he died on February 6, 1964, at the Veterans Memorial Hospital. Fate thus favored President Emilio F. Aguinaldo for he witnessed the nation he helped erect grow to maturity.
Historians have given him various illustrious titles. He was the "Caesar of the Philippines" and the "Liberator" of the Filipino People in the revolution against Spain and in the Filipino-American War that followed.
He conceived the Philippine National Flag and the Philippine National Anthem (Lupang Hinirang). He proclaimed the first Philippine Republic, the first republic in Asia. He led the first guerrilla war in Asia whose devastating effects were ...