Biography For Cory Aquino,eng
February 25, 1986 – June 30, 1992
Prime Minister Salvador H. Laurel
Vice President Salvador H. Laurel
Preceded by Ferdinand E. Marcos
Succeeded by Fidel V. Ramos
Born January 25, 1933 (1933-01-25)
Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines
Political party United Nationalists Democratic Organizations (UNIDO)/Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN)/Liberal
Spouse(s) Benigno Aquino, Jr.
Occupation Politician
Religion Roman Catholicism
1933
January 25 – Corazon “Cory†Cojuangco is born to into a wealthy, political family in Tarlac. She was the sixth of eight children (of whom two died in infancy) of Jose Cojuangco, a former congressman, and Demetria Sumulong Cojuangco, a pharmacist.
1946
The Cojuangco family leaves for the United States and Cory enters Ravenhill Academy in Phildelphia, a sister school of Assumption Convent in Manila where she used to study. She later enrolls at the Notre Dame Convent School in New York where she finishes high school.
1953
Cory returns to the Philippines and enrolls at the Far Eastern University to study law.
1954
October 11 – Cory marries journalist and budding politician Benigno Simeon “Ninoy†Aquino, Jr. She helps Ninoy campaign for Mayor of Concepcion, Tarlac.
1955-1959
Ninoy becomes Mayor of Concepcion, Tarlac.
November 1955
Cory gives birth to Maria Elena, the first of her five children.
1957
Cory gives birth to her second daughter, Maria Corazon
1960
Cory gives birth to her only son, Benigno III
1961
Third daughter, Victoria Elisa, was born.
1971
Youngest daughter, Kristina Bernadette(Kris) is born.
1967
November 14 – The 1967 elections: Ninoy wins a seat in Senate. He is the only Liberal Party (LP) candidate to win a seat in the Nacionalista Party-filled Senate.
1971
August 21 – LP’s proclamation rally at Plaza Miranda, Manila, is marred by a bomb explosion. Almost all LP Senatorial candidates are injured.
1972
September 21 – Marcos declares Martial law after Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile was allegedly ambushed on Wack Wack Road, Mandaluyong September 22. On the same day, the military arrests people in the “Order of Battle†list. Among those in the list was then Senator Ninoy Aquino.
Ninoy suggested to Cory that she and the children leave for Australia but she refused.
Ninoy was detained for 7 years and 7 months, mostly in solitary confinement. At one point, when Cory’s visiting privileges were cancelled, she frantically made the rounds of people she thought could help her get permission to see Ninoy again. The Supreme Court was prevailed upon to request the military to allow Cory to see her husband for humanitarian reasons.
April 1975 to May 1975
Ninoy goes on hunger strike while in Prison. He stopped his hunger strike forty days later after being rushed to the intensive care unit. Cory was allowed to be with him all this time. She would feed him one or two tablespoons of baby food every two hours.
1977
Cory finds herself in despair when a military tribunal sentences Ninoy to face the firing squad for subversion, illegal possession of firearms, and murder.
1978
While awaiting execution, Ninoy was allowed to run in the 1978 election for a seat in the Interim National Assembly. Marcos’s wife Imelda led the ruling party in a 21-0 sweep in Metro Manila.
1980
Cory accompanies Ninoy into exile in the United States, with Marcos’ permission, after he is diagnosed to have a serious heart condition.
1983
August 13 – Ninoy leaves Boston, passing through Tokyo, then Singapore and Taipei.
August 19 – Ninoy flies to Taiwan via Hong and stays another day in Taipei.
August 21 – Ninoy boards China Airlines flight to Manila. He arrives 1:00 pm at the Manila International Airport. A group of soldiers fetch him from his plane seat onto the stairway leading to the tarmac. They block doorways to prevent media from covering the scene. Seconds later, a single shot is fired. Ninoy is assassinated. The assassination rouses opposition against the Marcos government.
1985
November 3 – President Marcos announces that he is ready to call “snap election,†while being interviewed n the “David Brinkley Show.â€
December 2 – The Sandiganbayan acquits Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Fabian Ver and all military personnel charged with Ninoy’s murder in 1983. On the same day, Marcos signs Cabinet Bill No. 7, formally setting the Snap elections to February 7, 1986.
1986
2nd week of February – There is still no declared winner a week after the snap elections. The National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) figures show that Cory and her vice-presidential running Salvor “Doy†Laurel are consistently in the lead. NAMFREL’s final tabulation of Cory’s votes is of 7,853,070 and Laurel 7,441,313 votes. Marcos obtains 7,053,068 and Tolentino 6,613,307 votes.
But Commission on Elections (Comelec) tabulations show that Marcos is leading by 1.2 M votes.
Twenty-nine computer programmers, many of them women, walk out from the control center of the national canvassing of
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