by PNA
On December 13, 1993, President Fidel V. Ramos signed into law Republic Act No. 7659 imposing death penalty on heinous crimes.
Considered heinous crimes are the following: treason; piracy and mutiny on the high seas; qualified bribery by any law enforcer; parricide, murder, infanticide; kidnapping and serious illegal detention; robbery with rape, mutilation; destructive arson; rape; economic plunder by public officials of at least P50 million; and all forms of drug-related crimes and carjacking with homicide.
This day also marked the death in 1920 of
Dr. Bonifacio Arevalo, regarded as the first Filipino dentist who established his dental clinic in Quiapo, Manila.
Born on May 14, 1850, he was the founding president of Sociedad Dental de Filipinas, the first dental organization in the Philippines established in 1908.
Dr. Arevalo used to be the assistant and later became partner of a French dentist from Hong Kong, known as Monsieur M. Fertri, who came to Manila and set up his dental office in Quiapo. The joint practice of these two unassuming dentists marked the beginning of dentistry in the country.
During the Spanish regime, being a dentist was not a legally established profession and any person capable of extracting teeth could practice without rendering himself culpable of illegal practice of dentistry.
Later on, a special course was established in the University of Santo Tomas for "cirujanos ministrantes" which was eventually changed to "cirujanos dentistas."
This curriculum marked a milestone of great significance in the development of dentistry as a profession in the country.
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