id: Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat

His death thrust his widow, Corazon Aquino, into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peaceful 1986 EDSA Revolution.

* 1989 – 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d ' état.

* 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 )

In 1986, after a major government reorganization, President Corazon Aquino issued Executive Order No. 392 and changed the structure of the Metropolitan Manila Commission and renamed it to the Metropolitan Manila Authority.

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The constitution lasted until the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and Corazon Aquino appointed members to draft the 1987 Constitution through a Constitutional Commission.

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.

She entered government in 1987, serving as assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry upon the invitation of President Corazon Aquino.

In 1987, she was invited by President Corazon Aquino to join the government as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Before that, four women were granted the title as individuals as Woman of the Year – Wallis Simpson in 1936, Soong May-ling ( Madame Chiang Kai-shek ) in 1937, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, and Corazon Aquino in 1986.

However, during the administration of Corazon Aquino, the national motto was replaced with a Filipino translation of the original words, Republika ng Pilipinas, pursuant to Republic Act No. 8491 approved on February 12, 1998.

No. 6709 signed by President Corazon Aquino on February 10, 1989.

Local heads of offices and employees particularly those holding political positions were destabilized but with the installation of President Corazon Aquino as president, OIC Atty.

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.

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.

Corazon Aquino had difficulty initially adjusting to provincial life when she and her husband moved to Concepcion, Tarlac in 1955.

A reluctant speaker, Corazon Aquino campaigned in behalf of her husband, and for the first time in her life delivered a political speech.

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.

Finally, to the amazement and admiration of the entire world, after twenty years of martial rule, Ferdinand Marcos was driven out from power and Corazon Aquino was formally and peacefully sworn in as the new president of a freed and liberated Philippines on February 25, 1986, a historic event which is now known and remembered as the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution.

Corazon Aquino during a ceremony honoring United States Air force.