NGAYONG ARAW sa KASAYSAYAN - 30 DISYEMBRE 1896 - Filipino patriot and polymath Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal is executed in Bagumbayan, Manila by Spanish-officered, native manned squad before thousands of spectators colonial authorities for supposed rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy in connection with the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution of 1896; Rizal had aroused patriotic sentiments through his propaganda work and his books Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo that depicted the pathetic situation of the Filipinos under the colonizers; the Noli Me Tangere particularly earned the ire of the abusive friars who called it heretic, impious, injurious to the colonial government, and scandalous to the Catholic Church; Rizal was implicated in the Revolution owing to his association with members of the secret-society-turned-revolutionary-government Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan but he actually subsequently disowned the revolutionary movement based on how he chose to serve the colonial Mother Country as a volunteer medic in Cuba and on his manifesto condemning the 1896 revolution and the unauthorized use of his name. 1896 - Josephine MacBride Bracken reunites with her lover, Filipino patriot and polymath Jose Rizal just before the latters execution by the Spanish colonial authorities; Bracken would hand over to Andres Bonifacio, the Supremo of the Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan, a copy of Rizals Mi Ultimo Adios poem when she enters the rebels territory in Cavite accompanied by Rizals siblings, Paciano and Trinidad; earlier, Bracken and Rizal could not get married because Rizal was a mason but two hours before Rizals execution, the couple is married under Catholic rites by Fr. Victor Balaguer. 1953 - Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay, the seventh officially recognized President of the Philippines, takes his oath of office in the grandstand by Manila Bay; the former Defense Secretary of his predecessor, President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysays candidacy would later be revealed to have been backed up by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the imperialist United States of America, with CIA operative David Sternberg fronting as foreign correspondent but assisting another operative, Gabriel Kaplan, in managing Magsaysays presidential campaign; Magsaysay would be endeared to the Filipino masses mainly through his approachability, including policy of opening the doors of Malacanang to the people, and his simplicity. philippines-islands-lemuria.blogspot/2011/12/30-december.html
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