When Marcos was overthrown in the People Power Revolution, other parties appeared, such as Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, Lakas ng Bansa, National Union of Christian Democrats, and Philippine Democratic Socialist Party.

When the Philippines was granted independence on July 4, 1946 by the American government, the Philippine Congress was established.

When the previous Philippine president, Macapagal, suggested in 1964 – 1965 to send troops it had been Marcos who had led the opposition against this plan on both legal and moral grounds.

When the all the casualties during the Battle of Zamboanga was over the 48, 700 Filipino troops and officers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary was found killed and wounded in action, the Zamboangueño resistance over 7, 642 killed and wounded in action, the American troops and officers of the United States Armed Forces units over 14, 000 killed and wounded in action and the Japanese soldiers and officers of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces units was 233, 000 killed, wounded and captured in action by the surprise attack from the officially to the Allies.

When the Philippine Commonwealth Army came into being in 1936 ( per Commonwealth Act No. 1, Executive Order No. 11 issued on January 11, 1936 ), the institution became the present-day Philippine Military Academy.

When the Philippine Revolution erupted in 1896, a Spanish Colonel named Eugenio Blanco who had large estates near the town of Macabebe in Pampanga organized a regiment from among his clients.

MacArthur continues, " When developed the Philippine Army will be strong enough to oppose any conceivable expeditionary force.

When a war warning from Gen. George C. Marshall was received in the Philippines on 28 November ( Philippine time ), the next day FEAF began dispatching two B-17s a day on reconnaissance flights of the sea lanes north of Luzon, but with orders not to overfly Japanese territory on Formosa.

When Philippine Air Lines was established, its very first flight took off in March 1941 from the Nielson Airport for Baguio.

When the Philippine – American War erupted on February 4, 1899, the Republican Army suffered losses on every sector.

When the Philippine Bill of 1902 was passed by the US Congress, the US colonial government was formally established in the Philippine islands.

When Filipino soldiers of the 2nd, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th and 26th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was re-invading launches to entering liberated the province of Nueva Ecija and helping recognized guerrilla resistance fighter units, the Hukbalahap Communist guerrillas and the American troops against the Japanese Imperial forces during the Invasion of Nueva Ecija.

When the local Filipino soldiers and officers of the 5th, 52nd, 53rd, 55th, 56th and 57th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was landing the beaches and captured the liberated from the island province of Catanduanes and helping the local guerrilla fighters and American liberating troops and defeated and fought against the Japanese Imperial armed forces during the Battle of Catanduanes and ending World War II.

When the Filipino soldiers of the 7th, 73rd and 75th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 7th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was started the Liberation of Negros Oriental in 1945 and fought against the Japanese forces.

When Filipino soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and the military units of the USAFIP-NL 11th, 14th and 15th Infantry Regiments in Kalinga-Apayao was retreated by the Japanese Imperial forces include the local collaborating troops of the Bureau of Constabulary and the Makapili militias.

When the Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, Philippine Constabulary 1st Infantry Regiments and the USAFIP-NL 11th, 14th and 15th Infantry Regiments and aided the Irogot resistance was came back the main battles and clearing operations against the Imperial Japanese troops and Makapili militia groups led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita through liberated Kalinga-Apayao from 1944 to 1945.

When the Congo received its independence in 1960 there were, among its 13.5 million people, exactly 14 university graduates.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

When Croatia declared independence in 1991, the only true motorways in the country were Zagreb – Karlovac ( the northernmost part of A1 ) and Zagreb-Slavonski Brod ( A3 ), the latter being part of the highway " Bratstvo i jedinstvo ".

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When as a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939, the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon the Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin over his " failure " to keep order in his country.

When Ribbentrop recovered, he sought a chance for increasing the agency's influence by giving Croatia independence.

When Libya gained its independence in 1951, veterans of the original Sanusi Army formed the nucleus of the Royal Libyan Army.

When Morocco supported the Algerian independence movement of the Emir Abd al-Qadir, it was heavily defeated by the French in 1844 and made to abandon its support.

When independence was proclaimed in 1975, the leaders of FRELIMO's military campaign rapidly established a one-party state allied to the Soviet bloc, eliminating political pluralism, religious educational institutions, and the role of traditional authorities.

When the Grito de la Villa de Los Santos independence motion occurred, Veraguas firmly opposed it.

When the attempt of papal forces to take over the ancient independent Republic of San Marino failed, Clement XII disavowed the arbitrary action of his legate, Cardinal Alberoni, in seizing San Marino, and restored its independence.

When in 1494 Charles VIII of France invaded the Italian states to claim the Kingdom of Naples, Pisa grabbed the opportunity to reclaim its independence as the Second Pisan Republic.

When the war of independence was won, he was invited over to run a cultural programme for three years and the family moved to Jakarta in 1952.

When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write a declaration in support of the resolution.

When European imperialism brought a new phase in Southeast Asian commerce in the late 1800s, Thailand ( known then as Siam ) was able to maintain its independence as a buffer zone between British-controlled Burma to the west and French-dominated Indochina to the east, but losing over 50 % of its territory in the process.

When East Timor gained independence from Indonesia, Thailand, for the first time in its history, contributed troops to the international peacekeeping effort.

When Jamaica was granted independence from Britain in August 1962, the Turks & Caicos Islands became a Crown colony.

When the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the Turks and Caicos received their own governor ( the last administrator was restyled ).

When the Supreme Soviet of Uzbekistan reluctantly approved independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Karimov became president of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

When the Second Continental Congress convened at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia in May 1775, some delegates hoped for eventual independence, but no one yet advocated declaring it.

When Congress had been considering the resolution of independence on June 8, the New York Provincial Congress told the delegates to wait.

When Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party during November 1990, Powell said he would rejoin the party, which he had left in February 1974 over the issue of Europe, if Thatcher won, and would urge the public to support both her and, in Powell's view, national independence.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.