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NOBODY screamed "historical revisionism" back in the 1960s when President Diosdado Macapagal by proclamation on May 12, 1962, and the Congress by legislation on Aug. 4, 1964, made the bold decision to move the annual commemoration of Philippine Independence Day from July 4 to June 12 in recognition of the transcendental importance of the establishment of the Philippine Republic by the revolutionary government under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo in Kawit, Cavite, on June 12, 1898.

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