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Today in Philippine history, September 21, 1944, President Laurel declared Martial Law throughout the entire country
 
On September 21, 1944, President Jose P. Laurel, following the bombing of Davao on September 18, 1944, by the returning Allied forces, issued proclamation #29, placing the entire country under Martial Law and suspended the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus. Laurel also declared that a state of war existed between the Philippines and the United States and Great Britain through Proclamation #30 issued the next day, September 22, 1944.
Martial Law became effective at 9:00 o'clock in the morning of September 22, 1944. The state of war became effective on September 23, 1944, at 10:00 o'clock in the morning.
President Laurel, had been under pressure from Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo, since as early as the inauguration of the wartime Philippine Republic on October 1943, to declare war against the United States and Great Britain. Laurel had successfully parried off that Japanese demand for more than a year. But in the face of attacks on the territory of the Philippines by the returning allies, President Laurel found no more reason to delay the proclamation of martial law and the state of war.
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