Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

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.

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.

The Manila Bulletin headline of Aquino's assassination on August 21, 1983Despite warnings from the military and other pro-Marcos groups, Ninoy Aquino was determined to return to the Philippines.

The assassination of Benigno " Ninoy " Aquino, Jr. in August 1983 prompted Salonga to return to the Philippines on January 21, 1985 to help resuscitate his party and unite democratic opposition.

He was the first prominent victim of a political assassination under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, carried out in Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City on February 8, 2001.

* Benigno " Ninoy " Aquino, husband of the first female president of the Philippines was shot dead at the Manila International Airport on 21 August 1983.

* President Benigno Aquino III ( Philippines )

* Benigno Aquino Jr. of the Philippines was imprisoned during the martial law regime of Ferdinand Marcos

In September 2012, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order No. 29, mandating that all government agencies use the name " West Philippine Sea " to refer to the parts of the South China Sea within the Philippines ' exclusive economic zone, and tasked the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority ( NAMRIA ) to use the name in official maps to bolster the Philippines ' claims to the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal .< ref >

On August 21, 1983, however, Ninoy ended his stay in the United States and returned without his family to the Philippines, only to be assassinated on a staircase leading to the tarmac of the Manila International Airport, which was later renamed in his honor ( see Assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr .).

* Benigno Aquino, Sr. ( 1894 – 1947 ), cabinet member, senator, and Speaker of the National Assembly of the Philippines

* Benigno Aquino, Jr. ( 1932 – 1983 ), also known as Ninoy Aquino, popular oppositionist senator in the Philippines, son of the above

* Benigno Aquino III ( born 1960 ), also known as Noynoy Aquino, President of the Philippines, son of the above and grandson of Benigno Aquino, Sr.

President Benigno S. Aquino III thus becomes the first President of the Philippines to make Bahay Pangarap his official residence, although previous presidents have stayed there.

The present Terminal 1, originally named Manila International Airport, was given its present name on August 17, 1987 by virtue of Republic Act No. 6639, with the intention of honouring Benigno " Ninoy " Aquino, Jr., who was assassinated at the airport after returning to the Philippines from his self-imposed exile in the United States on August 21, 1983.

On June 30, 2010, being the representative of Canada, he went to the inauguration of President Benigno Aquino III in Manila, Philippines.

Known as the Queen of All Media, and Philippines ' Queen of Talk, both of her parents are natives from Tarlac the youngest daughter of former Philippine senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. and Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, and sister of Benigno S. Aquino, III, the current President of the Philippines.

The reason for her leaving the show is that she will be spending time with her family and for her not to cause any issues while her brother Benigno Aquino III is in office as President of the Philippines.

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.

It is the current ruling party after the election victory of Benigno Aquino III as the President of the Philippines.

* Ninoy Aquino Day ( Philippines )

* 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule ; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines ' first woman president.

* 1933 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines ( d. 2009 )

* President Corazon Aquino ( Philippines )

** People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule ; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president.

** A military coup attempt begins in the Philippines against the government of Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino, ending by December 9.

* January 25 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines ( d. 2009 )

The reporter repeated claims regarding ASIS operations aimed at destabilising the Aquino Government in the Philippines.

* Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3, Manila, Philippines, 1997

He also visited President Corazon Aquino in a series of talks between the Philippines and Japan during a special state visit from 1986 to 1987, to provide good economic and trade relations, massive investor and tourist arrivals, and construction and rehabilitation programs.

* The Aquino Family ( Philippines )

Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg has the same layout ; Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, Sydney Airport in New South Wales, Australia, Perth Airport in Western Australia, Ferihegy in Budapest and Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines are other examples.

Chamorro was the first elected female head of state in the Americas, the second in the Western Hemisphere after Iceland's Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and the fifth in the world after the elections of Agatha Barbara in Malta, Elisabeth Kopp in Switzerland and Corazon Aquino in the Philippines.

These events eventually led to the ousting of Marcos and the installation of Aquino as President of the Philippines on February 25, 1986 through the " People Power Revolution ".

Corazon Aquino returned to the Philippines a few days later and led her husband's funeral procession, in which more than two million people joined the procession.

* Feast of the Santo Niño in the Philippines – * Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States – Third Monday

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

* July 4 – Teofisto Guingona, Jr., 13th Vice President of the Philippines

He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal.

Former WBC presidents include Luis Spota and Ramon G. Velázquez of Mexico, Onslow Fane of Great Britain and Justiniano N. Montano, Jr. of the Philippines.

* Ferdinand " Bongbong " Marcos, Jr. ( born September 13, 1957 ) Senator of the Philippines

Pastor General Joseph Tkach, Jr. periodically travels worldwide in personal appearance campaigns to congregations in diverse intercontinental areas, such as Great Britain, Africa, and the Philippines.

In Francisco, Jr. vs. Nagmamalasakit na mga Manananggol ng mga Manggagawang Pilipino, Inc., the Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled that the definition of " betrayal of public trust " is a " a non-justiciable political question which is beyond the scope of its judicial power " under the Constitution.

Politicians that have graduated from Penn Law include Joseph Sill Clark ( Mayor of Philadelphia, and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ), Charles Robert Miller ( Governor of Delaware ), Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. ( former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U. S. Ambassador to Sweden ), Raul Roco ( former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines ), Oscar Goodman ( Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada ), Harry Arista Mackey ( Mayor of Philadelphia ), Martin J. Silverstein ( U. S. Ambassador to Uruguay ) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky ( member of the U. S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist ).

Barrera made his professional debut at 15 when he defeated Leonilo Embuestro Jr. of Philippines by a knockout in round two on November 22, 1989.

“ Belenismo sa Tarlac ” ( project to transform it to “ Belen capital ” of the Philippines ) was launched by Isabel Cojuangco-Suntay, sister of former Ambassador Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., president of the Tarlac Heritage Foundation.

Wounded American on stretcher in the Philippines, 1899Novo Ecijanos like Llanera, Valmonte, Mamerto Natividad, Jr. and Manuel Tinio conducted themselves heroically during the revolution.

Philippine authors like F. Sionil José, Jose Dalisay, Jr., N. V. M. Gonzalez and Nick Joaquin write about the post-colonial ( some say neo-colonial ) situation in the Philippines.

* February 15-Carlos Ortiz retains the world Lightweight title with a fourteenth round knockout of world Jr. Lightweight champion Flash Elorde, Manila, Philippines.

* Balete, Danilo S .; Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. & Heaney, Lawrence R. ( 2006 ): An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Camiguin Island, Philippines.

* Heaney, Lawrence R. & Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. ( 2006 ): Mammal and Land Bird Studies on Camiguin Island, Philippines: Background and Conservation Priorities.

In the 13th Congress of the Philippines, the ruling Lakas-CMD party led by Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. renewed its partnership with the Nationalist People's Coalition even as an alternative coalition of administration-affiliated parties was shaping up.