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Aquino's assassination is credited with transforming the opposition to the Marcos regime from a small, isolated movement into a national crusade. It is also credited with thrusting Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, into the public spotlight and her running for president in the 1986 snap election.
- Benigno Aquino Jr., Rolando Galman
- Benigno Aquino Jr.
Aug 18, 2023 · What were the economic consequences of the Aquino assassination 40 years ago? In most retellings of the assassination of Benigno “Ninoy’ Aquino Jr. on August 21, 1983, the cold-blooded killing is often credited for sparking widespread outrage among ordinary citizens previously cowed by over a decade of martial rule.
Aug 20, 2016 · An autopsy report said the death of Aquino was a result of “brain laceration and intracranial hemorrhage, secondary to gunshot wound at the head.” The fatal bullet, it added, was fired...
Aug 21, 2022 · Today marks the 39 anniversary of the death of Aquino on August 21,1983 at the Manila International Airport which would later be named after him. New forensic analysis sustains Martinez’s narrative: Galman shot Aquino
He once said ‘The Filipino people were worth dying for.” He was assassinated by soldiers loyal to Marcos after he stepped of a plane at the Manila airport in 1983 after returning from exile. He was the husband of Corazon Aquino, the president of the Philippines after Marcos’s was ousted. Ninoy Aquino had originally been expected to succeed Marcos.
Aug 23, 2021 · The effects of Ninoy Aquino’s killing were going to spill into Ayala Avenue, boardrooms, offices, the streets, and universities. The newspaper needed to widen its lens and chronicle the...
Aug 21, 2014 · MANILA, Philippines - Former senator Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr., was assassinated in the afternoon of August 21, 1983, at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. His death was a pivotal...
