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9 unusual facts about Ramon Magsaysay


Antonio Diaz

Diaz's mother, Mercedes, was the sister for former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.

Camilo Osías

He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Nationalist Party nomination for President of the Philippines in 1953, losing to Ramon Magsaysay.

DYRM

DYRM was founded on March 1959 & named after former President Ramon Magsaysay who died in a plane crash on same month & year.

Palarong Pambansa

Then it continuous yearly until it was cancelled in 1957 because of the death of President Ramon Magsaysay.

Ramon Magsaysay, Jr.

He pursued post-graduate studies in 1962 at Harvard School of Business Administration in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent another year in New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.

From 1961 to 1962, he was a supervising engineer for operations for Caltex Philippines.

San Narciso, Zambales

Also located in San Narciso is the Zambales Academy, one of the oldest secondary education institution in the province, it is where the former president Ramon Magsaysay took his secondary education.

University of Southern Mindanao

On June 10, 1954, President Ramon Magsaysay signed the Republic Act No. 998 the enabling act for the establishment and subsequent operation for MIT which got initial allocation of P 200,000 for the school’s operation.

VMM-162

During March 1957, six Marines of the squadron were awarded the Philippine Legion of Honor for their gallant conduct in the recovery operations at the scene of the death of President Ramon Magsaysay on Cebu Island.


James R. Rush

Rush's own essays for the biographical project of the Ramon Magsaysay Award series include the biographies of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Abdurrahman Wahid, Bienvenido Lumbera, Ravi Shankar, Veditantirige Ediriwira Sarachchandra, and Fei Xiaotong.


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Arvind Kejriwal

Together with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri, Kejriwal established the Public Cause Research Foundation in December 2006, donating the prize money he had received from the Ramon Magsaysay Award as a seed fund.