1976 in the Philippines

1976 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1976.

Philippines 1976
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the Philippines

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Incumbents

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President Ferdinand Marcos at the White House in 1966.

Events

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April

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  • May 2024 – Flooding in the wake of a typhoon kills 215 persons and left 60,000 homeless in Luzon Island.[1]
  • May 21–23 – Six terrorists hijack a Philippine Airlines plane, which lands later on the Zamboanga Airport; hostage crisis ends on May 23 as they explode a plane and a shootout followed, killing 3 of them as well as 10 passengers.[2]

August

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October

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December

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Holidays

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As per Act No. 2711 section 29,[5] issued on March 10, 1917, any legal holiday of fixed date falls on Sunday, the next succeeding day shall be observed as legal holiday. Sundays are also considered legal religious holidays. Bonifacio Day was added through Philippine Legislature Act No. 2946. It was signed by then-Governor General Francis Burton Harrison in 1921.[6] On October 28, 1931, the Act No. 3827 was approved declaring the last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day.[7] As per Republic Act No. 3022,[8] April 9th was proclaimed as Bataan Day. Independence Day was changed from July 4 (Philippine Republic Day) to June 12 (Philippine Independence Day) on August 4, 1964.[9]

Entertainment and culture

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Sports

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  • July 17August 1 – The Philippines competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. The country sends only eleven athletes to Montreal, its smallest delegation since 1932, to compete in track and field, boxing, shooting, swimming and weightlifting.

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d The 1977 World Book Year Book. Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. 1977. ISBN 0-7166-0477-9.
  2. ^ "Hijackers blow up jet as troops attack" (05-24-1976) UPI via Lodi News-Sentinel, p. 1. (Link) Retrieved 02-24-2022.
  3. ^ The Earthquake and Tsunami of August 16, 1976, in the Philippines: The Moro Gulf Tsunami"
  4. ^ History of Tsunami Devastation
  5. ^ "AN ACT AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  6. ^ "Bonifacio Day in Philippines in 2022". Official Holidays. Archived from the original on July 5, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  7. ^ "Act No. 3827". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Archived from the original on August 28, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  8. ^ "AN ACT PROCLAIMING THE NINTH DAY OF APRIL AS BATAAN DAY AND DECLARING IT AS A LEGAL HOLIDAY". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. April 6, 1961. Archived from the original on February 17, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  9. ^ "AN ACT CHANGING THE DATE OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM JULY FOUR TO JUNE TWELVE, AND DECLARING JULY FOUR AS PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC DAY, FURTHER AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION TWENTY-NINE OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. August 4, 1964. Retrieved February 22, 2022.