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5 unusual facts about People Power Revolution


Clarissa Ocampo

She graduated from high school in 1986, and planned to attend college in the United States until the People Power Revolution against the Marcos regime took place.

Juan Cutillas

He briefly left for Australia in 1985 during the onset of the People Power Revolution, where he coached a handful of Australian profesional football teams.

People power

:For the '"People Power Revolution" in the Philippines, see People Power Revolution.

It may be nonviolent, as was the case in the 1986 Philippines revolution which overthrew the Marcos régime, or may resort to violence, as happened in Libya in 2011.

Quiapo, Manila

Following the People Power Revolution in 1986, the vibrancy of Quiapo further diminished, with the void filled by makeshift markets to accommodate visitors to the Quiapo Church.


Danilo Lim

Capt. Danny Lim was recruited into the rightist Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) during the 1980s and was involved in the People Power Revolution, but came into public knowledge during the botched 1989 Coup d'État against the Cory Aquino government.

Inauguration of Corazon Aquino

The inauguration marked the commencement of the first term (which lasted a six years four months and five days) of Corazon Aquino as President, during the People Power Revolution following the removal of President Ferdinand Marcos.

Insurgency

There have been many cases of non-violent rebellions, using civil resistance, as in the People Power Revolution in the Philippines in the 1980s that ousted President Marcos and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

Mario O'Hara

In 1986, after the first EDSA Revolution, he filmed Bagong Hari ("New King") starring Dan Alvaro.

Philippine House of Representatives elections, 1969

Marcos was overthrown in the People Power Revolution in 1986 and a new constitution was approved on a 1987 plebiscite which restored the bicameral Congress.

Philippines–Australia Community Assistance Program

PACAP started in the Philippines in 1986 in the time of major social and political change following the People Power Revolution and Corazon Aquino’s assumption of power.


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