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1972 in the Philippines

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1972 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1972.

Incumbents

File:Ferdinand Marcos at the White House.jpg Ferdinand Marcos at the White House in 1966.]]

Events

=June=

=July=

  • July 5 – A team of Philippine Constabulary elements discovers in the shoreline of Digoyo Point in Palanan, Isabela the MV Karagatan which providing supplies to the New People's Army. The outnumbered team is later involved in a three-day gunfight with the NPA, with two Constabulary men injured and preventing the NPA from taking the ship. The operation captured several firearms and ammunition. The incident is one of the reasons of the imposition of Martial Law.[https://provinceofisabela.ph/images/2018/History_of_Isabela/1-History%20of%20Isabela.pdf "Historical development of the Province of Isabela"] (PDF) Province of Isabela. Retrieved July 27, 2022.

=September=

  • September 21
  • Martial law is declared by President Marcos[http://www.lawphil.net/executive/proc/proc_1081_1972.html Full Text – Proclamation 1081] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804032402/http://www.lawphil.net/executive/proc/proc_1081_1972.html |date=August 4, 2012 }} as Proclamation No. 1081 signed by law led to the establishment of his dictatorship and was simulcasted through national radio and television broadcasts nationwide by midnight of September 23, causing series of round-ups by police and military forces, forced ban on public rallies, tight security, strict censorship on all forms of mass media, closures of business establishments and dissolution of bicameral congress (senate and house of representatives); as well as arrest of critiques of Marcoses (like media people and politicians), notable people who are arrested such as Ka Louie Beltran, Maximo Soliven, Satur Ocampo, Benigno Aquino Jr., Chino Roces (the founder of Manila Times and ABC-5) and the Lopez family (of ABS-CBN and Manila Chronicle, including Eugenio Lopez, Sr.)
  • The celebration of Thanksgiving Day as a regular holiday is moved to September 21 from every fourth Thursday of November.{{Cite web|title=Thanksgiving in the Philippines|url=http://malacanang.gov.ph/74644-thanksgiving-in-the-philippines/|url-status=live|access-date=February 23, 2021|website=Presidential Museum and Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129225326/http://malacanang.gov.ph:80/74644-thanksgiving-in-the-philippines/ |archive-date=November 29, 2014 }}
  • September 22 – Assassination attempt of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile.{{Cite web|last=Bueza|first=Michael|date=September 23, 2018|title=Enrile's 'ambush': Real or not?|url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/juan-ponce-enrile-versions-ambush-1972|url-status=live|access-date=April 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118111044/https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/juan-ponce-enrile-versions-ambush-1972 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 }}
  • September 23
  • Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. was arrested.
  • ABC 5 (Associated Broadcasting Corporation, now TV5 Network) and ABS-CBN shut down radio-television operations due to Martial law.
  • Manila Chronicle shuts down newspaper operations.

Holidays

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As per Act No. 2711 section 29,{{Cite web|title=AN ACT AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1917/03/10/act-no-2711/|url-status=live|access-date=February 22, 2022|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025043316/http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph:80/1917/03/10/act-no-2711/ |archive-date=October 25, 2017 }} 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.{{Cite web|title=Bonifacio Day in Philippines in 2022|url=https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/philippines/bonifacio-day|url-status=live|access-date=February 22, 2022|website=Official Holidays|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705124615/https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/philippines/bonifacio-day |archive-date=July 5, 2020 }} On October 28, 1931, the Act No. 3827 was approved declaring the last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day.{{Cite web|title=Act No. 3827|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1931/10/28/act-no-3827/|url-status=live|access-date=February 22, 2022|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828111303/http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph:80/1931/10/28/act-no-3827/ |archive-date=August 28, 2017 }} As per Republic Act No. 3022,{{Cite web|date=April 6, 1961|title=AN ACT PROCLAIMING THE NINTH DAY OF APRIL AS BATAAN DAY AND DECLARING IT AS A LEGAL HOLIDAY.|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1961/04/06/republic-act-no-3022/|url-status=live|access-date=February 22, 2022|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217093423/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1961/04/06/republic-act-no-3022/ |archive-date=February 17, 2021 }} 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.{{Cite web|date=August 4, 1964|title=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|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1964/08/04/republic-act-no-4166/|access-date=February 22, 2022|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}

Entertainment and culture

{{Hatnote|For the events related to Philippine television in 1972, see 1972 in Philippine television.}}

Sports

Births

Deaths

References

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