Today is National Heroes Day in the Philippines. It is a day to honour the bravery of all Filipino heroes who struggled for the nation’s freedom, including those who vanished into anonymity. The date chosen is intended to mark the ‘Cry of Pugad Lawin’ in August 1896, which was the first act of insurrection against the Spanish colonisers by the Katipunan, a hitherto secret Filipino revolutionary movement.
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Today is the birthday, in 1924, of Dinah Washington. She had this hit in 1959 and a couple more in the early sixties. She died in 1963 of a fatal drug interaction.
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