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15 06 2009

Happy 111th Independence Day!

Happy 111th! by you.

Go Pinoy!

Payt Bisdak!

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15 06 2009
joemill (22:19:53) :

Can I repost it?

Go Pinoy!
Payt Bisdak!

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15 06 2009
leylander (22:54:34) :

sure

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15 06 2009
joel (23:21:05) :

asa ni dapit nga lugar….. mura lagi ug laing planeta.

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16 06 2009
ianne (09:53:48) :

HAPPY 111TH INDEPENDENCE DAY, PHILIPPINES!

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16 06 2009
luisa USA (11:23:32) :

june 12, was the 111th independence day in pinas, wow, my b-day was june 11…

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16 06 2009
islandcruzer (12:17:28) :

Times like this makes me wonder. How was it when Philippines was just a colony? How Philippines would be like today if it was first colonized by Great Britain, Portugal, or other countries other than Spain? Why Philippines couldn’t industrialize as fast as Japan?

It is also time to be thankful and to celebrate as Filipino; we are the offspring of this wonderful country.

HAPPY 111TH INDEPENDENCE DAY PHILIPPINES!

Belated…lol!

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16 06 2009
inday myrna (18:59:09) :

The Filipino-Australian (Brisbane) are celebrating Philippine Independence Day here too.

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16 06 2009
billy (20:53:21) :

It was the former Pres. Diosdado Macapagal who changed the celebration date of Philippine Independence from July 4 to June 12 because according to historians, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo declared it to be so in July 12, 1896.

Yet the Philippines was ceded to America by Spain in a Treaty of Paris in December 1896 to conclude the Spanish-American War. So how could an independent nation be ceded?

“On July 4, 1946, representatives of the United States of America and of the Republic of the Philippines signed a Treaty of General relations between the two governments. The treaty provided for the recognition of the independence of the Republic of the Philippines as of July 4, 1946, and the relinquishment of American sovereignty over the Philippine Islands.” [History of the Philippines, Wikipedia]

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17 06 2009
crenekini (18:57:28) :

The Philipppines was on the advent of gaining independence from the Spanish rule with Aguinaldo\’s declaration in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898 (its 111th anniversary now).
Actually, the Katipuneros under Bonifacio has declared independence for the Philippines long before Aguinaldo did. But the June 12th declaration was considered the most formal and solemn, with raising of the of the Philippine flag for the first time and playing the national anthem (see: Phil Historical Inst.)
Unfortunately or fortunately, Spain ceded the Philippines in its losing war to the Americans, thus making them the new colonizer with whom the Katipuneros fought a great war (The Phil-American War).
The Americans granted indepence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946 on the accassion of its own Independence Day celebration.

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18 06 2009
crenekini (16:41:17) :

sorry…its National Historical Inst., not Phil Historical Inst.

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