Historian Joseph Scalice to deliver public lecture on 50th anniversary of Plaza Miranda bombing
11 February 2021
On March 3, 5.00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST), historian Joseph Scalice will be delivering an online public lecture, hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, on the subject of the 1971 bombing of the Liberal Party election rally at Plaza Miranda in the Philippines. The bombing marked a critical step toward the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 and remains one of the most controversial events in the country’s history.
Three grenades were thrown on stage in the midst of the crowded election rally of the bourgeois opposition Liberal Party (LP), killing nine and wounding over a hundred people. Marcos responded by suspending the writ of habeas corpus and carrying out mass arrests, conducting a dry-run for the establishment of military dictatorship a year later.
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Edward Miller, right, is sworn in as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board by Justice Byron White as Secretary of Labor George Shultz and his wife, Anne Harmon Miller, look on in June 1970.Washington Post photo by Harry Naltchayan
On Sunday, Oct. 12, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had reached a climactic moment in their summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Gorbachev proposed sweeping reductions in nuclear weapons if Reagan would constrain his missile defense plan, but Reagan balked.
Thirty-five years ago on February 7, when the snap elections for Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held.
On February 9, 1986, thirty-five tabulators manning the COMELEC’s quick count computer terminals walked out during the 1986 snap elections (Photo from Bantayog Museum)
The 1986 snap polls saw Corazon Aquino, widow of senator Benigno Ninoy Aquino Jr. running against President Ferdinand Marcos, with former senator Salvador Laurel as her running mate.
The Commission on Elections declared Marcos the winner of the said polls but the count of the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) showed otherwise.
It was a turning point in the country’s history as the Marcos regime soon came to an end.