Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition):
OCTOBER 19, 1886
Dr. Jorge Bocobo (October 19, 1886 - July 23, 1965), a scholar, lawyer, writer, journalist, educator, and justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Gerona, Tarlac.
He wrote speeches and statements for Manuel L. Quezon and went to four independence missions to the United States in 1919, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
He was the 5th president of the University of the Philippines from 1934 to 1939. Dr. Bocobo translated into English, Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Andres Bonifacio’s Decalogue, the Code of Kalantiaw, and the Philippine National Hymn.
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