Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 2):
JULY 28, 1909
Governor-General William Cameron Forbes endorsed the reconstruction of Dr. Jose Rizal's house in Dapitan.
Forbes was governor-general of the Philippines from 1909 - 1913, during the term of US President William Howard Taft.
Rizal lived in Dapitan as an exile from July 17, 1892 to July 31, 1896 after the Spanish authorities accused him of sedition and plotting a revolution.
Rizal's house in Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte, with its surroundings is now known as the Jose Rizal Memorial Protected Landscape, and also called the Rizal Park and Shrine.
The protected area was established in 1940 as the Rizal National Park with an initial area of 10 hectares through Proclamation No. 616 signed by President Manuel Luis Quezon.
It was enlarged in 2000 to its present size of 439 hectares and a buffer zone of 15 hectares.
Proclamation No. 279 declared it as a protected landscape under the National Integrated Protected Areas System.
(Design, concept, stamps and research: Richard Allan B. Uy) All rights reserved
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