Some groups also sprang up including the National Union for Liberation led by John Osmena and Diosdado Macapagal, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party, the Pusyon Bisaya, and the Young Philippines.

** Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines ( d. 1997 )

* Diosdado Macapagal-was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965

Since the administration of President Diosdado Macapagal ( 1961 – 1965 ), Laurel has been recognized as a legitimate president of the Philippines.

* José Laurel, Jr., ( August 27, 1912-March 18, 1998 ) Member of the Philippine National Assembly from Batangas from 1943 to 1944, Congressman from Batangas ' Third District from 1941 to 1957 and from 1961 to 1972, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1954 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1971, Assemblyman of Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, Member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 from June 2 to October 15, 1986 and a running-mate of Carlos P. Garcia of the Nacionalista Party in Philippine presidential election of 1957, placed second in the vice-presidential race against Diosdado Macapagal of Liberal Party ( Philippines )

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal ( September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997 ) was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice President, serving from 1957 to 1961.

In 1946 he married Dr. Evangelina Macaraeg, with whom he had two children, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who became President of the Philippines and Diosdado Macapagal Jr.

He was the Philippines ' Secretary ( Minister from 1973 to 1984 ) of Foreign Affairs under President Elpidio Quirino from 1950 to 1952, under President Diosdado Macapagal from 1963 to 1964 and under President Ferdinand Marcos from 1968 to 1984.

Two more Presidents of the Philippines elected into office came from the LP: Elpidio Quirino and the redoubtable Diosdado Macapagal.

At the end of his second term, he ran for re – election in the Presidential elections in November 1961, but was defeated by Diosdado Macapagal, Vice President under him, but belonged to the opposing Liberal Party – in the Philippines the President and the Vice President are elected separately.

Tiger Airways with its Philippines partner airline, SEAir also flies to Clark's Diosdado Macapagal International Airport.

In 1960, he was persuaded by Vice President Diosdado Macapagal, then president of the Liberal Party ( LP ), one of the two dominant political parties in the Philippines at the time, to run for Congress in the second district of Rizal, where two political dynasties dominated the bureaucracy.

In 1963 the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines engaged in discussions on territorial disputes and the possibility of a Maphilindo Confederation, an idea launched by the Philippine president Diosdado Macapagal.

July 4 was observed in the Philippines as Independence Day until August 4, 1964 when, upon the advice of historians and the urging of nationalists, President Diosdado Macapagal signed into law Republic Act No. 4166 designating June 12 as the country's Independence Day.

* On 21 April 2010, Flight 7815, operated by Antonov An-12 UP-AN216 crashed on approach to Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, Philippines after a fire broke out in flight.

Joaquín represented the Philippines at the International PEN Congress in Tokyo in 1957, and was appointed as a member of the Motion Pictures commission under presidents Diosdado Macapagal and Ferdinand E. Marcos.

* Diosdado P. Macapagal-Former president of the Philippines ( 1961 – 1965 ); lecturer and professor, San Beda College of Law

In 1963, FIBA suspended the Philippines for its failure to stage the 1963 FIBA World Championship after President Diosdado Macapagal refused to allow players from Yugoslavia and other communist countries to enter the country.

Clark International Airport ( Filipino: Pandaigdigang Paliparan ng Clark or Pandaigdigang Paliparan ng Klark ), formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport ( DMIA ; Filipino: Pandaigdigang Paliparan ng Diosdado Macapagal ; Kapampangan: Pangyatung Sulapawan ning Diosdado Macapagal ), is the main airport serving the immediate vicinity of the Clark Freeport Zone and the general area of Angeles City in the Philippines.

In July 1963, President Diosdado Macapagal of the Philippines convened a summit meeting in Manila.

* Diosdado Macapagal ( 1910-1997 )-9th President of the Philippines ( 1961-1965 )

" He was a founder and later Supremo (" supreme leader ") of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution.

Following the assassination of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 many within the Reagan administration including the President himself began to fear that the Philippines could fall to the communists and the U. S. military would lose its strongholds at Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay Naval Station.

* Jaime Sin ,-cardinal, leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines and pillar of the People Power movement

After her husband's assassination on August 21, 1983, upon returning to the Philippines after three years in exile in the United States, Corazon Aquino emerged as the leader of the opposition against the Marcos administration.

This Supreme Court decision affirmed the status of Aquino as the rightful leader of the Philippines.

Diego Silang y Andaya ( December 16, 1730 – May 28, 1763 ) was a revolutionary leader who conspired with British forces to overthrow Spanish rule in the northern Philippines and establish an independent Ilocano nation.

Opposition leader Corazon Aquino was proclaimed as the legitimate President of the Philippines after the revolution.

Shortly after, San Miguel acquired the Ayala Company's PureFoods, becoming the undisputed market leader in the Philippines ’ fast growing food industry, owning two-thirds of the refrigerated / processed meat market, and over a third of the poultry and feeds industries.

In the Philippines, the yellow ribbon first gained prominence in the 1980s during the Martial Law era as a symbol of opposition leader Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.

The leader of the Aquila Legis Fraternity, a law based fraternity in the Philippines, is called Praeses.

* In the Philippines, communist and left-leaning activists prefer the term kasama ( roughly, companion ), and the short form, ka before the name, as in Ka Bel ( referring to labor leader Crispin Beltran ); religious personalities also use ka, in this sense referring to kapatid ( brother / sister ).

Meliton Geronimo, has gained worldwide recognition as a martial arts leader and the Philippines, through the Karate ( Sikaran ) Brotherhood of the Philippines, has emerged as a powerhouse in the international Karate scene.

Events in the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos forced Sin, the spiritual leader of all Filipino Catholics, to become involved in the politics of the region.

Máximo Macapobre was a 19th-century Philippines leader and activist, one of the founders of New Hinulawan ( 1863-1869 ), now part of Toledo City, in the Cebu Province of the Philippines.

On September 13, 1907, the leader of the Republic of Katagalugan, the de facto fourth President of the Philippines, was hanged.

He supported the annexation of the Philippines and along with Republican leader Henry Cabot Lodge he campaigned for the construction of a new navy.

The Communist Party of the Philippines ( CPP ) was reestablished on December 26, 1968, coinciding with the 75th birthday of Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist leader of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

* October 23-GSPC leader Nabil Sahraoui ( having taken over from Hassan Hattab ) announces that his group " strongly and fully support Osama bin Laden's jihad against the heretic America as well as we support our brothers in Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Chechnya ".

It was due primarily to his personal leadership qualities that the Mindanao resistance movement was unified under one leader and became the most successful of all the guerrilla units in the Philippines.

On December 26, 1968, he formed and chaired the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines ( CPP ), an organization founded on Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, stemming from his experience as a youth leader and labor and land reform activist.

* 1950s ( mid )-Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader

Attended school in Balaoan, Vigan, San Fernando, and was appointed government student to the United States in 1905 ; graduate of the Western Illinois State Teachers College at Macomb in 1908 ; attended the University of Chicago, in 1906 and 1907 ; graduated from Columbia University in New York City, and from the Teachers College of New York City in 1910 ; first Filipino superintendent of schools in 1915 and 1916 ; assistant director of education 1917-1921 ; member of the first Philippine mission to the United States in 1919 and 1920 ; lecturer at the University of the Philippines 1919-1921 ; president of the National University 1921-1936 ; elected a member of the Philippine Senate in 1925 ; elected as a Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1928 ; reelected in 1931 and served from March 4, 1929, until January 3, 1935, when his term expired ; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1934 ; member of the first National Assembly in 1935 ; member of the Economic Mission to the United States in 1939 ; chairman of Educational Mission 1938-1941 ; chairman of National Council of Education in 1941 ; director of publicity and propaganda until January 1942 ; chairman of National Cooperative Administration in 1941 ; subsequently assistant commissioner of the Department of Education, Health, and Public Welfare, then Minister of Education of the Philippines until 1945 ; chancellor of Osias Colleges ; elected to the Philippine Senate in 1947 for the term expiring in 1953 ; served as minority and majority floor leader and then elected president of the Philippine Senate ; Philippine representative to the Interparliamentary Union in Rome and to the International Trade Conference in Genoa in 1948 ; elected to the Philippine Senate, 1961-1967, and served as president pro tempore ; a resident of Mandaluyong, Rizal, Philippines, until his death in Manila on May 20, 1976.