ANG KALATAS NEWSMAGAZINE
Volume 8 Number 9 • JUNE 2018
ALFREDO ROCES writes:
We celebrate our Independence
on the 12th of June, marking the
occasion when General Emilio
Aguinaldo proclaimed our
Independence in Kawit, Cavite
in 1898. Previously, the nation
had celebrated Independence
Day when the US had granted
independence to her colony on
July 4, 1946. This choice of July 4
for Philippine Independence Day
had been pointedly made to
coincide with America’s own
Independence Day, and
some were unhappy with
the obvious association.
Hence the change
to June 12.
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FILIPINOS MARK
DAY OF FREEDOM