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Ninoy Aquino Day is a national non-working holiday in the Philippines observed annually on August 21 commemorating the assassination of former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., the husband of Corazon Aquino, who later became the eleventh Philippine President.
The 2023 film Martyr or Murderer explores the assassination of Ninoy Aquino on August 21, 1983, three years before the events of Maid in Malacañang, and how the Marcoses were accused of being responsible for the assassination.
21 sie 2020 · Today is an important holiday in Filipino history, marking August 21 as Ninoy Aquino Day. Created in 2004, this day forever commemorates the life and legacy of a beloved hero of freedom. Filipinos remember the ultimate sacrifice that Ninoy Aquino made for the people of the Philippines.
16 paź 1983 · He set a new arrival date: Sunday, Aug. 21, one month and two days after he was first notified of an assassination plot against him. The opposition homecoming committee stressed that the new...
21 sie 2022 · BAGUIO CITY, Benguet, Philippines — When former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was felled by an assassin’s bullet at the Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, Baguio residents went out into the streets in outrage, much like the rest of the country.
20 sie 2016 · MANILA, Philippines – Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr was assassinated on August 21, 1983. Considered one of the staunchest opponents of then president Ferdinand Marcos, Aquino was regarded as a...
21 sie 2017 · These are the voices Time Magazine correspondent Sandra Burton captured on her microcassette recorder on the afternoon of Aug. 21, 1983, right after China Airlines Flight 811 carrying former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. landed at the then Manila International Airport.
