In the Philippines, the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President Ferdinand Marcos.

* President Benigno Aquino III ( Philippines )

* President: Mario Scelba ( 1965 – 1969 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1969 – 1975 ), Aldo Moro ( 1975 – 1978 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1978 – 1980 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1980 – 1989 ), Ciriaco De Mita ( 1989 – 1992 ), Rosa Russo Iervolino ( 1992 – 1994 )

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 a privilege speech of Benigno Aquino, Jr., he warned the public of the possible establishment of a “ garrison state ” by President Marcos.

The honorific of the current Philippine President is " His Excellency, Benigno Aquino III ".

This usage is also popular among the speakers of the Batangan dialect of Tagalog, while some actors and politicians such as Philippine President Benigno Aquino III have been known to use the Tagalog exclusive form in giving interviews.

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.

A self-proclaimed " plain housewife ", Aquino was married to Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., the staunchest critic of then President Ferdinand Marcos.

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

Aquino's son, President Benigno Aquino III currently resides in Bahay Pangarap, a nearby villa beside the Pasig River while keeping the Palace open to the public.

Official portraits of all Philippine Presidents are on the walls, from Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the Malolos Republic, to Benigno Aquino III, painted by Fernando Amorsolo, García Llamas and other noted artists.

For a time however, the private office of current President Benigno S. Aquino III was located at the Aquino Room in Bonifacio Hall, a building separate from the palace itself.

Across the river is Malacañan Park, which contains a golf course, recreation hall, park, billets for the presidential guard, as well as a Commonwealth-era presidential resthouse ( Bahay Pangarap ), which serves as the current residence of President Benigno Aquino III.

For a time, the building housed the private office of President Benigno S. Aquino III until June 21, 2011, when the building was inspected for structural integrity.

Unknowingly, President Corazon Aquino's office was the bedroom of President Marcos at the time that Benigno S. " Ninoy " Aquino, Jr. met an untimely end in 1983.

Among those arrested were Senate President Jovito Salonga, Senator Jose Diokno, and Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., the staunchest of his critics and the man who was groomed by the opposition to succeed Marcos after the 1973 elections.

President Benigno Aquino III signed the law dividing to new 3 legislative district of Cotabato on September 14, 2012.

He is credited as being the first person to inform future President Corazon Aquino about the assassination of her husband Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. 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.

In 2010, the newly elected Philippine President, Benigno Aquino III, has selected Nigel Paul Villarete as the new General Manager of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport ( MCIA ) and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of MCIAA.

While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U. S. President Richard Nixon.

Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U. S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

* 1841 – U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.

* 1858 – U. S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U. S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.