August 21 Stories
/August 21, 1983 will be forever remembered as the day Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. was assassinated. But something else happened on August 21 twelve years prior to Ninoy's martyrdom -- the Plaza Miranda bombing in 1971.
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August 21, 1983 will be forever remembered as the day Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. was assassinated. But something else happened on August 21 twelve years prior to Ninoy's martyrdom -- the Plaza Miranda bombing in 1971.
Read MoreThe story of how a group of Filipinos started the yoyo craze in the U.S. back in the 1930s.
Read MoreA film history buff’s rigorous sleuthing reveals the truth about “Luzon Lingerie.”
Read MoreThe Jose Formoso Reyes story, or why the Philippine Commonwealth's loss was Nantucket's gain.
Read MoreIt was 48 years ago today, when the Fab Four came to Manila to play.
Read MoreSo, who really wrote this satire on the difficulty of kissing a Filipino woman – Rizal or Antonio Luna?
Read MoreThe Escolta was Manila’s gem of a shopping street, until neglect and idiotic city officials made it go to seed.
Read MoreA rite of passage that generations of Filipino men had to endure
Read MoreFANHS argues that the film misses an opportunity to offer a nuanced and accurate history of the farmworkers movement that was born of the Filipinos’ 1965 Grape Strike.
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