The Book Of Yesterday | May 5

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THE LOSS OF ABS-CBN'S FREE TV

May 5, 2020

It has been exactly one year since our televisions lost the oldest TV station in the Philippines --- ABS-CBN. The station has been saying goodbye to free TV and radio, as a result of the end of its 25-year franchise. This is also in effect of the cease-and-desist order filed by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and at 7:52 pm, ABS-CBN and all its branch stations completely disappeared from the air. on television and radio DZMM and MOR. In the days that followed, the operation of ABS-CBN's local networks nationwide ended one by one.

Since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he has expressed his frustration with the network for not airing his political campaign advertisement in the 2016 Presidential Elections. The conflict between President Duterte and the ABS-CBN leadership became deep for several reasons; the network's political interference, the alleged unfair reporting and criticism of the government, the network's improper payment of taxes, and the questionable citizenship of Eugenio Lopez III. These are the reasons why President Duterte openly said that he will not extend the franchise of ABS-CBN. The network has also petitioned Congress several times for the extension of its franchise, which was first signed in April 1995, with the end of the franchise set for May 2020. Several House Bills were also proposed by the country's Senators and Congressmen to allow the extension of the ABS-CBN franchise, but at the same time, Solicitor General Jose Calida filed a quo warranto petition against ABS-CBN in February 2020, in which it complained about the violations committed by ABS-CBN and recommended the closure of the network, which the network denied. In June of the same year, the Supreme Court overturned Calida's quo warranto, as the network's franchise had expired.

Thousands of ABS-CBN supporters flocked to the station and on social media from various sectors on the network, to call for the government's consideration of the network.

FATHER GREGORIO AGLIPAY WAS BORN

May 5, 1860

Today is the 161st birthday of the Filipino revolutionary and priest and first Chief Bishop of the Iglesia Filipino Independiente, Padre Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayan or better known as Padre Gregorio Aglipay. He was born in the town of Batac, Ilocos Norte on this day in 1860, and as a child he hated the unjust rule of the Spanish government in the province of Ilocos Norte, especially in agriculture.

He moved to Manila to study under a Julian Carpio. After that he studied at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and at the University of Santo Tomas. He then returned to Ilocos Norte to enter the priesthood in 1883 and was ordained after seven years. Like the hanged Gomburza priests, Padre Aglipay also wanted secularization or the right to govern the parish of Filipino secular priests.

While serving as a priest, he entered Freemasonry and later joined the Katipunan while in Tarlac. When the revolution broke out in 1896, Padre Aglipay was convinced by the Archbishop of Manila Bernardino Nozaleda to stop the Filipino uprising, on the condition that Spain grant autonomy. General Emilio Aguinaldo sent General Luciano San Miguel to encourage Padre Aglipay to join the revolution. Padre Aglipay accepted General Aguinaldo's offer to become the Military Vicar General of the revolutionary army and he became the military chaplain of the revolution. When the Malolos Congress first opened, Padre Aglipay was appointed as the representative of Ilocos Norte, and also one of the signatories to the Malolos Constitution. While Vicar General of the revolution, Padre Aglipay urged Filipino priests to unite in secularization, and to seize control of the parish from the friars. As a result, Padre Aglipay was considered a rebellion against the Catholic church and was excommunicated in April 1899 by Archbishop Nozaleda.

Isabelo delos Reyes, a labor leader, saw Padre Aglipay's efforts to have a church in our country separate from the Catholic church. So on August 3, 1902, Delos Reyes founded the Iglesia Filipino Independiente or what is now called the Aglipayan Church, and Padre Aglipay became its first Chief Bishop. While the Chief Bishop, Padre Aglipay led the guerrilla forces in Ilocos Norte against the Americans, until he surrendered to Colonel MacCaskey in Laoag, Ilocos Norte and continued to lead the Iglesia Filipino Independiente.

He also tried to enter politics when he ran for the presidency against Manuel Luis Quezon in 1935 but lost. Former Padre Aglipay's life with his wife Pilar Jamias of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte has become private.

Padre Aglipay passed away on the first day of September, 1940 due to a brain hemorrhage at the age of 80.

THE BATTLE OF ITTER'S CASTLE IN AUSTRIA

May 5, 1945

The once rival Americans and Germans during the four -year war, became allies in a battle against another German. This strange battle took place in the last days of the war in Europe, three days before Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945, in a castle situated in the mountainous part of western Austria.

On this day, the combined 12th Armored Division and 142nd Infantry Regiment joined forces with American forces led by Captain Jack Lee, Jr., several Wehrmacht units led by Commander Josef Gangl and several French armed forces against the units. Waffen-SS under the leadership of Georg Bochmann.

The purpose of the Americans and the Wehrmacht was to free the French captives of the SS inside the castle. Meanwhile, Waffen-SS units lay in wait to retake the castle and kill all the prisoners there. The 12th Armored Division of America and Major Gangl's soldiers freed the French captives there, including the sister of President Charles de Gaulle of France, several government officials and generals. But at the same time, they were besieged by the Waffen-SS, and while inside the castle, the Americans and the Wehrmacht, as well as some armed French captives, joined against the Waffen-SS. It was afternoon when the help of the 142nd Infantry Regiment of the United States arrived and they subdued the now surrounded Waffen-SS units. Major Gangl was killed in the fighting and only one American tank was damaged, while many of the more than 200 Waffen-SS personnel were killed and the rest surrendered.

This is the first time that the former rival nation has been allied in battle, united for a greater purpose.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE DIED ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA

May 5, 1821

Exactly 200 years ago. The considered great general of the French revolution, the first Emperor of the French, and great conqueror of Europe for 10 years Napoleon Bonaparte, died as a British prisoner at the age of 51 in his house in the small and the only island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic sea on this day in 1821. She uttered her dying last words “France, army, commander of the army, Josephine”.

Napoleon surrendered to the British after his last defeat at the battle of Waterloo in June 1815. In October of the same year the British brought Napoleon to the island of St. Helena, to make sure she has nothing left to lose and not to cause trouble in Europe again. There he was accompanied by some of his supporters and his doctor, and Napoleon simply spent the rest of his years as a prisoner reading, writing his memoirs, gazing at the vast ocean around the island, and indulging in feelings. his stomach ache.

February 1821 when Napoleon's health gradually deteriorated due to a stomach ache, which he had been suffering from for a long time. He was first buried at St. Helena and in 1840, her remains were exhumed and brought home to France in a lavish ceremony and then laid to rest in her musoleum at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, France.

Stomach cancer was reported to be the cause of Napoleon's death, but some speculations surfaced, that he was poisoned and expelled by the British. Several theories have also surfaced that it was not cancer that made Napoleon’s life easier, but the presence of the toxic chemical arsenic, found in the recovered samples of his hair, and on the wallpapers in his bedroom. So many experts have already analyzed and studied about Napoleon’s death while in St. Petersburg. Helena, but the cause of death of the French emperor still remains a major mystery to them.

From a wealthy family on the island of Corsica, Napoleone Buonaparte became a soldier in the French revolutionary army or will be known in history as Napoleon Bonaparte. From his first success as a leader in the city of Toulon in 1793, he proved his capability as a charismatic, efficient and efficient military leader, until becoming head of the Consul after seizing power of the Directory in 1799, and leading the victors. battle of France against the Allies countries in Europe. He crowned himself Emperor in December 1804, and produced a code of laws called the Napoleonic Code.

He established a vast empire to spread the ideas of the French revolution in Europe, but the result was a ten -year war against Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Spain, and other countries to defend the empire. and the ideas it propagates. There is no denying Napoleon's contribution to shaping the political structure in Europe, which still marks until generations gone by.

THE OPENING OF THE ESTATES-GENERAL OF 1789

May 5, 1789

In response of the French monarchical government to the country’s struggling financial problems, King Louis XVI on this day in 1789 convened a meeting of representatives of the three social classes throughout the kingdom, the Estates-General. Louis XVI's finance minister Jacques Necker proposed the opening of this conference, to solve the country's financial problem. By that time, France was already mired in internal and external debt, due to the costs incurred by France's involvement in the American war against Britain, and the luxurious lifestyle of Queen Marie Antoinette. As a result of the sharp increase in the debt of the whole country, the tax levied has also been increased, which the Third Estate or ordinary citizens are worried about because they have also experienced financial problems while the priests (First Estate) do not or hardly pay taxes. and nobles (Second Estate). Not only does the Third Estate pay taxes to the government, but to two other estates.

This was desired to be resolved with the reopening of the Estates-General, which first opened in 1614.

At the opening of the Estates-General in a lavish ceremony at the Hôtel de Menu de Plaisirs at the Palace of Versailles, delegates of the Third Estate addressed the grievances of ordinary citizens, such as high taxes, bias of the clergy and nobility in their privileges while they avoid taxation. But the Third Estate frustrated the voting process in such an assembly. Although more make up the Third Estate than the two estates, the voting system is not individual but collective. This means that the Third Estate will lose the poll when two Estates vote against one another. As a result, the clergy and nobility still retained their privileges, something the Third Estate wanted to lose. As a result, they saw that the Estates-General could no longer help with their problem and they made their own assembly separate from the First and Second Estate, the National Assembly.

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