Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 2):
AUGUST 3, 1944
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (August 19, 1878 – August 1, 1944), the first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, was given a state funeral in Washington, D.C.
He died of tuberculosis on August 1, 1944 in Saranac Lake, New York.
He was the only Filipino leader accorded such honor in a foreign country and all flags were ordered to be lowered at half-mast.
Sol H. Gwekoh, a writer who was at the St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. shared that “a continuous stream of people from all walks of life walked past the bier until late that night to pay a last solemn homage to the great and gallant leader whose body lay instate in front of the flower-banked altar.”
The Philippines, a US colony during that period was headed by Quezon, who was in exile in the United States when the Japanese invaded the country.
(Design, concept, stamps and research: Richard Allan B. Uy) All rights reserved
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