Tag Archives: Ninoy Aquino Day

You’ve learned that we’ll have two long weekends coming near. Hooray! But if you work in a BPO company or in malls, don’t sulk, ’cause you can party [some other time] like it’s the end of the world. 😉 We have three non-working holidays this August: the 20th (Monday) is …

August 21, 2009, Friday, is a special non-working holiday in commemoration of  Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr.’s death anniversary, declared as Ninoy Aquino Day (Republic Act No. 9256). Ninoy was assasinated on Aug. 21, 1983 at the tarmac of then Manila International Airport (now Ninoy Aquino International Airport)when he returned …