The Book Of Yesterday | Jun 11
COMMISSED BY THE U.S. NAVY THE BATTLESHIP USS MISSOURI
June 11, 1944
A few months after launching at sea one of the Iowa-class warships of the United States navy the USS Missouri (BB-63), that warship was commissioned on this day in 1944 as one of the U.S. Navy fleets. . Captain William Callaghan first became commander of the USS Missouri, which monitored its successful sea trials on July 10 of the same year. His operation for the Pacific began in November 1944.
The USS Missouri joined American forces fighting at Iwo Jima and Okinawa as the U.S. Navy’s naval support to the Americans there in February and June 1945, and was one of the American warships that bombed mainland Japan. And on the starboard side of the USS Missouri witnessed the historic ceremony of Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender to the war, which culminated in the six-year World War II on September 2, 1945.
The U.S. Navy still used the USS Missouri in American combat in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, and was first decommissioned as a reserve fleet by the U.S. Navy in 1955. But Missouri was returned to service in 1986, for American combat. in the Persian Gulf War in 1990, and in 1992 Missouri was permanently retired, and Missouri is currently on display at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
It measures 270 meters long, 11 meters high from the waterline to the deck, and 33 meters wide. Missouri is powered by eight Babcock and Wilcox boilers, with a power of up to 212,000 shaft horsepower capable of running up to 28,000 km at speeds ranging from 17 knots and with a maximum speed of 32 knots. Missouri-carried weapons are powerful, with two triple-barreled 16-inch Mark 7 naval guns, and anti-aircraft guns ranging from 5-inch to 20-mm, Tomahawk ballistic missile launch pads and anti-ship and submarine torpedoes. Its armor plating is also thick, ranging in thickness from 6-inch to 12-inch, depending on the location of each Missouri deck.
KING FELIPE II OF SPAIN RECOGNIZES THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF THE PRINCIPALIA IN THE PHILIPPINES
June 11, 1594
On this day in 1594, King Philip II of Spain implemented his royal decree on the Philippines, recognizing and protecting the privileges and rights of the country’s former indigenous nobles, such as datus and their families, and blood relatives. blue in their respective barangays before the arrival of the Spaniards. This royal decree covered only the nobles who had been loyal to the Spanish flag and had been baptized into Catholicism. According to this law, the sitting Governor-General of the Philippines was obliged to treat them justly, and even the natives to respect those nobles as they respected them even before they were subjected to the Spanish colony. Because of this law, the former native nobles were able to return to power, when they also became encomendero, and they joined the Spaniards in maintaining order in the encomiemda.
The implementation of this law gave birth to a new social class during the Spanish conquest of the Philippines, the Principals. When the mandatory change of surnames was implemented by decree of Governor-General Narciso Claveria in 1849, those carrying native surnames and even the descendants of indigenous nobles were exempted from it. The Principals held a high status in Filipino society, sometimes holding government positions from cabeza de barangay to gobernadorcillio.
This law and the privilege enjoyed by the Principals remained until the end of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in 1898.
EMILIO AGUINALDO APPROVES JULIAN FELIPE'S COMPOSITION FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE PHILIPPINES
June 11, 1898
One day before the celebration of Philippine independence in Cavite, composer Julian Felipe played his composed melody of the march demanded of him by General Emilio Aguinaldo. On this day in 1898, General Aguinaldo liked and he immediately approved Felipe's melody for the march scheduled to be played the next day. Felipe's composition is titled "Marcha Filipino Magdalo", which is only one minute long.
According to Felipe, he adapted the melody of his composition from the melodies of the National Anthems of France and Spain, and from the Aida composed by the Italian Giuseppe Verdi. It was first played in celebration of the country’s proclamation of independence from Spain on June 12, 1898 while waving the national flag of our country, played by the marching band San Francisco de Malabon. It was originally composed without lyrics, only applied in 1899 using the poem "Filipinas" by Jose Palma.
Under the American Anti-Flag and Sedition Act of 1907, the public display of any symbolism of the Philippines, whether flag or national anthem, was prohibited. September 5, 1938, by virtue of Commonwealth Act no. 382 formally approved the use of Philip's melody as the melody of the Philippine National Anthem, but its lyrics, entitled Chosen Land, were written in English.
It was during the Japanese period when the lyrics of the National Anthem first had a salon in Tagalog, and in 1956 when the use of Tagalog in the lyrics of the National Anthem of the Philippines became formal, enacted by Republic Act no. 8491.
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