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Aquino was the husband of Corazon Aquino, who became the 11th president of the Philippines after his assassination, and father of Benigno Aquino III, who became the 15th president of the Philippines. Aquino, together with Gerardo Roxas and Jovito Salonga , helped form the leadership of the opposition towards then President Ferdinand Marcos .
e. Benigno Simeon Aquino III KGCR ( locally [bɛˈniːɡ.no ʔɐˈxiː.no]; born Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), [ 4][ 5] also known as Noynoy Aquino[ 6][ 7][ 8] and colloquially as PNoy, [ b] was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. [ 12][ 13][ 14 ...
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former Philippine senator, was assassinated on Sunday, August 21, 1983, on the tarmac of Manila International Airport (now named Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor). A longtime political opponent of President Ferdinand Marcos, Aquino had just landed in his home country after three years of self-imposed ...
Igno Aquino was appointed member of the Council of State (1942), and speaker and director general of KALIBAPI (Kapisnan ng Paglilingkod sa Bayan). He is the father of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. (November 27, 1932 – August 21, 1983). [4] Ninoy Aquino campaigned for Dr. Jose P. Laurel and later Ramon Magsaysay for the presidency.
e. Maria Corazon " Cory " Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino[ 4] CCLH ( Tagalog: [kɔɾaˈsɔn kɔˈhwaŋkɔ aˈkino]; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the eleventh President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade ...
Ninoy Aquino Day is a national non-working holiday in the Philippines observed annually on August 21 commemorating the assassination of former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., the husband of Corazon Aquino, who later became the eleventh Philippine President.
It is often referred to as the Ninoy Aquino Terminal, as it was the site of the former senator's assassination in 1983. The terminal, opened in 1982, [ 19] is the airport's second oldest. The development of the Manila International Airport, which includes Terminal 1, was approved by Executive Order No. 381 immediately after the former airport ...
Diokno was appointed by the new President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino or Cory, wife of the slain Ninoy Aquino and mother of the future 15th president, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino, to serve as founding chairman of the Presidential Committee on Human Rights, now the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and tasked to lead a government panel to negotiate for ...