In 1987, the opposition parties who wanted to distance both from the Marcos & Aquino cliques formed the Grand Alliance for Democracy ( GAD ) headed by former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Francisco Tatad.

She was the country's second female president ( after Corazón Aquino ), and the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal.

Arroyo was a former professor of economics at Ateneo de Manila University where Benigno Aquino III was one of her students.

These Fraticelli were divided into three sects: those acknowledging Tommaso da Bojano, former Bishop of Aquino ; the followers of the pretended minister general, Bernard of Sicily ; and those who claimed Angelo da Clareno as their founder and acknowledged only his successor as their general.

He also lost to former world title challenger Jun Sok-Hwang and future or former world champions Jorge Vaca and Lupe Aquino before finally retiring in 1989.

In late 1985, when President Marcos called for a snap election, Aquino ran for president with former senator Salvador Laurel as her vice-presidential running mate.

In the same year Estrada, together with former President Corazon Aquino, Cardinal Jaime Sin, Senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and other political leaders, led an anti-charter change rally brought in an estimated half a million people to Rizal Park against the charter change moves by Ramos and his supporters.

: Then People Power Revolution erupted in 1986 ousting former president Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino assumed the position of the presidency.

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.

Nestor Torre, a known critic of the Philippine Entertainment industry, pointed out that Aquino took a lot of risks when she chose to give up her two former shows.

In October 2008 after former The Buzz co-host Cristy Fermin was suspended by ABS-CBN, the Kapamilya network asked Aquino to once again host the top-rated showbiz oriented talk show together with Boy Abunda and Ruffa Gutierrez.

She was the country's second female president ( after Corazón Aquino ), and the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal.

It is said he was the mastermind of assassination of former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.

Cables leaked by Wikileaks include her as one of the five most influential women in the Philippines, together with journalist Malou Mangahas, Ombudswoman Merceditas Gutierrez, former Isabela Governor Grace Padaca, and celebrity icon Kris Aquino.

The Liberal Party regained new influence after its nomination of then-Senator Benigno Aquino III, the son of former President Cory Aquino, after the latter's death and the massive outpouring of sympathy for the Aquino family.

His international assignments included work in Chile, where he advised the opposition in its successful challenge to former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and in the Philippines, where he worked with Corazon Aquino in the campaign against the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship.

It was attended by several distinguished guests, including former Philippine President Corazon Aquino.

AFP Regulations G 161-373 or The Allocation of Cemetery Plots at the LNMB was issued on 9 April 1986 by former AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Fidel V Ramos and former President Corazon C. Aquino.

* 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.

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

In 1980, upon the intervention of U. S. President Jimmy Carter, Marcos allowed Senator Aquino and his family to leave for exile in the United States, where he sought medical treatment.

He ran for president anew in the 2010 Philippine presidential election, but lost to then Senator Benigno Aquino III.

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.

The airport is named after the late Senator Benigno " Ninoy " Aquino, Jr., who was assassinated at the airport in 1983.

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.

When Ver was implicated in the assassination of Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. who is also known as Ninoy on 1983, Ramos became the acting AFP chief of staff for a short time only because on 1985, Ver was reinstated after he was acquitted by the court on the charges against him with regards to the assassination of the Marcos regime's chief political enemy and renowned opposition leader.

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.

Political mismanagement would ensue, culminating with the 1983 assassination of popular oppositionist Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. upon his return from exile in the United States.

It was a series of peaceful demonstrations against the authoritarian regime of then-President Ferdinand Marcos that increased after the 1983 assassination of opposition Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. A tainted snap election on 7 February 1986 and a call by the local Catholic hierarchy sparked mass demonstrations in Metro Manila from 22-25 February that ousted Marcos, with Benigno's widow opposition candidate Corazon replacing him as President and ushering in the present Fifth Republic.

San Beda College counts among its notable high school alumni the late Senator and hero Benigno Aquino, Jr., the late statesman and former senator Raul Roco, former speaker Ramon V. Mitra, human rights advocate and former senator Rene V. Saguisag, San Miguel Corporation chairman Ambassador Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr., corporate magnate and PLDT Chairman Dr. Manuel V. Pangilinan, Supreme Court Associate Justices Antonio Eduardo B. Nachura and Jose Catral Mendoza, and Department of Justice Secretary, Atty.

The faculty of the San Beda Law Graduate School includes prominent Filipino legal luminaries such as former Human Rights Commission Chairperson Purificacion Quisumbing, former Senator Rene Saguisag, former Supreme Court Justice Jose Vitug, former Associate Justice Ricardo Puno, and Justice Oscar Herrera, Justice Hilarion Aquino, currently Chair of the Legal Education Board of the Philippines, among others.

* Benigno Aquino, Jr., ( HS )-( former ) Senator and key personality of the anti-Marcos dictatorship struggle

Senator Ninoy Aquino is a fourth-class municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines.

Senator Ninoy Aquino is politically subdivided into 20 barangays.

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Ninoy Aquino soon emerged as a leading critic of the government of President Ferdinand Marcos.

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 .).

The Commission on Elections ( COMELEC ) tally board shows Marcos leading while the National Citizen's Movement for the Free Elections ( NAMFREL ) consistently shows Cory Aquino ahead by a comfortable margin.

Magazine, Aquino was considered top or the leading celebrity endorser, ranking number one among the twenty popular celebrity endorsers.

Even in exile, Manglapus remained as one of the leading Filipino opposition figures along with Benigno Aquino, Jr., Jovito Salonga and Jose Diokno.

Anastasio " Indio " Aquino, gained fame leading an uprising against the Spanish in 1832-3.