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50 Facts About Ninoy Aquino
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Early in his Senate career, Ninoy Aquino vigorously attempted to investigate the Jabidah massacre in March 1968.
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Shortly after the imposition of martial law in 1972, Ninoy Aquino was arrested along with other members of the opposition.
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Ninoy Aquino has been described as Marcos' "most famous political prisoner".
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Ninoy Aquino founded his own party, Lakas ng Bayan and ran in the 1978 Philippine parliamentary election, but all the party's candidates lost in the election.
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Ninoy Aquino was assassinated at the Manila International Airport on August 21,1983, upon returning from his self-imposed exile.
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Ninoy Aquino's death revitalized opposition to Marcos; it catapulted his widow, Corazon, into the political limelight and prompted her to successfully run for a six-year term as president as a member of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization party in the 1986 snap election.
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Ninoy Aquino has been listed as a Motu Proprio human rights violations victim of the Martial Law era.
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Ninoy Aquino's grandfather, Servillano Aquino, was a general in the revolutionary army of Emilio Aguinaldo, the officially recognized first President of the Philippines.
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Ninoy Aquino received his elementary education at the basic education department of De La Salle College and finished at the basic education department of Saint Joseph's College of Quezon City.
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Ninoy Aquino then graduated at the high school department of San Beda College.
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Ninoy Aquino took his tertiary education at Ateneo de Manila University to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree, but he interrupted his studies.
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Ninoy Aquino took up law at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he became a member of Upsilon Sigma Phi, the same fraternity as Ferdinand Marcos.
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Ninoy Aquino interrupted his studies again however to pursue a career in journalism.
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Ninoy Aquino gained an early familiarity with Philippine politics, as he was born into one of the Philippines' political and landholding clans.
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Ninoy Aquino's grandfather served under President Aguinaldo, and his father held office under Presidents Quezon and Jose P Laurel.
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Ninoy Aquino became known as a constant critic of the Marcos regime, as his flamboyant rhetoric had made him a darling of the media.
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Ninoy Aquino assailed the Cultural Center, the first project of First Lady Imelda Marcos as extravagant, and dubbed it "a monument to shame" and labelled its designer "a megalomaniac, with a penchant to captivate".
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The First Lady's friends angrily accused Ninoy Aquino of being "ungallant".
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Ninoy Aquino, elected senator in 1967, was not a candidate in the 1971 midterm election hence was not in Plaza Miranda, but his absence caused some to assume that Ninoy Aquino's friends in the New People's Army tipped him off in advance.
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Ninoy Aquino was tried before Military Commission No 2, headed by Major-General Jose Syjuco and moved to the Codenamed "Alpha" Room at Fort Magsaysay in Laur, Nueva Ecija.
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Ninoy Aquino acquiesced, confident that he had made a symbolic gesture.
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In 1978, from his prison cell, Ninoy Aquino was allowed to run in the 1978 Philippine parliamentary election.
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Ninoy Aquino further justified his candidacy in Metro Manila instead of his home province of Tarlac as to submerge his popularity, with a victory meaning that the opposition of win, instead of himself just winning.
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However, all of the party's candidates lost the election, with Ninoy Aquino being the best-performing opposition candidate, ranking 22nd in the 21-seat at-large contest.
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In mid-March 1980, Ninoy Aquino suffered a heart attack, mostly in a solitary cell.
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Ninoy Aquino was transported to the Philippine Heart Center, where he suffered a second heart attack.
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Ninoy Aquino's request was granted and Ninoy was allowed to go to the United States for surgery, together with his entire family.
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Ninoy Aquino continued to work on two books and gave a series of lectures while on fellowship grants from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ninoy Aquino never stopped affirming his eventual return even as he enjoyed American hospitality and a peaceful life with his family on American soil.
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Ninoy Aquino believed that it was expedient for him to speak to Marcos and present to him his rationale for the country's return to democracy, before extremists took over and made such a change impossible.
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Ninoy Aquino decided to go back to the Philippines, fully aware of the dangers that awaited him.
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Ninoy Aquino eventually obtained a legitimate passport from a sympathizer working in a Philippine consulate through the help of Roque Ablan Jr.
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Ninoy Aquino insisted that it was his natural right as a citizen to come back to his homeland, and that no government could prevent him from doing so.
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Ninoy Aquino left Logan International Airport on August 13,1983, took a circuitous route home from Boston, via Los Angeles, to Singapore.
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Once in Johor, Ninoy Aquino met up with Tunku Ibrahim's father, Sultan Iskandar, who was a close friend to Ninoy Aquino.
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Ninoy Aquino then left for Hong Kong and on to Taipei.
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Ninoy Aquino had chosen Taipei as the final stopover when he learned the Philippines had severed diplomatic ties with the Republic of China.
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Ninoy Aquino was shot in the head after returning to the Philippines in the early afternoon on August 21,1983.
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Hours after the assassination, Ninoy Aquino's remains were autopsied at Loyola Memorial Chapels in Makati.
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Ninoy Aquino's remains were transferred to the Santo Domingo Church during that period.
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Ninoy Aquino was getting impatient in Boston, he felt isolated by the flow of events in the Philippines.
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Ninoy Aquino thought that by coming home he might be able to persuade Marcos to restore democracy and somehow revitalize the Liberal Party.
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Telegenic and articulate, Ninoy Aquino had his share of detractors and was not known to be immune to the ambitions and excesses of the ruling political class.
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However, during his seven years and seven months imprisoned as a criminal, Ninoy Aquino read the book Born Again by convicted Watergate conspirator Charles Colson and it inspired him to a rude awakening.
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Ninoy Aquino emerged as a contemporary counterpart of Jose Rizal, who was among the most vocal proponents of the use of non-violence to combat a repressive regime at the time, following the model of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ninoy Aquino was prominently featured in the 1988 Australian miniseries A Dangerous Life.
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Ninoy Aquino was portrayed by Amado Cortez in the 1994 film Mayor Cesar Climaco.
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Ninoy Aquino was portrayed by Isko Moreno and Jerome Ponce in the 2022 film Martyr or Murderer, while in the same year JK Labajo portrayed him in the historical drama film Ako si Ninoy.
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Ninoy Aquino wrote a 19-stanza poem for his wife Cory Ninoy Aquino while in detention in 1973, entitled "I Have Fallen in Love with the Same Woman Three Times".