02/10 What Happen Yesterday?

One of the largest crocodiles in the world, Lolong passed away.

February 10, 2013

He died of pneumonia and cardiac arrest, exacerbated by stress and fungal infections.

Following reports of missing buffaloes and a fisherman in Agusan del Sur, the local government, in collaboration with some residents and crocodile hunters of Palawan, set out to hunt down the crocodile behind the disappearance of some animals and a fisherman. September 3, 2011, when they caught Lolong, a saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). He is named after Ernesto 'Lolong' Goloran Cañete, the leader of the crocodile hunters who chased the crocodile. He was immediately taken into custody despite calls by some animal rights groups to release him from the wilderness.

November 2011 when he was examined by Adam Britton of National Geographic. Expert Lolong confirmed that it was the largest crocodile caught in the world. Guinness World Records also recognized Lolong's size.

After his death, Lolong's bones were excavated and preserved at the National Museum of Natural History.

Benigno Ramos was born

February 10, 1892

It can be considered a strong voice against the Americans and President Manuel Luis Quezon, but the person who had a dark narrative in our history was journalist, activist and politician Benigno Pantaleon Ramos. Today is his 129th birthday.

He is from the town of Bulakan, Bulacan, which was also home to the famous writer and journalist Marcelo H. Del Pilar.

Ramos became a teacher, an advantage to his good leadership, and became a civil servant. Ramos became a member of the Partido Nacionalista. Ramos was first friends and then Senate President Manuel Luis Quezon because he was Ramos 'close associate and they were both parties, and in fact he was the one who discovered Ramos' writing skills. But the path of the two also turned sour and distorted when Ramos sided with Filipino students who were insulted by a racist American Thomasite. It was in 1930 when Benigno Ramos composed the newspaper "Perfect", adapted from the work "J'Accuse", or accusation, by the French writer Emile Zola. As a native of Bulacan, it seems that Ramos is also in the blood of writing skills. It has the motto "Free. There is no other lord but the People".

Unlike the newspaper La Solidaridad whose sole purpose was to demand reform from Spain and make the Philippines a Spanish province, Sakdal appeared to be an exposé, with the idea of ​​separatism or the complete separation of the Philippines from American occupation. The first article of Sakdal was published in October 1930, and it was there that the perceived opportunists, corrupt and collaborators such as Sergio Osmena, Manuel Roxas and Quezon were sharply targeted. Apart from that, Sakdal also contains Ramos' poems and other literary works that describe the true state of society under American rule. As Sakdal hit the sentiment of the people, especially the poor peasants, Sakdal and Ramos' supporters increased.

Sakdal later became a political party, and its members are called Sakdalista, which covers the whole of Central Luzon to the present CALABARZON, and holds seats in the National Assembly. The Sakdalista believe that President Quezon was not faithful to the goal of liberating the Philippines from America. Sakdal was later involved in a bloody struggle against the government, when on May 2, 1935, hundreds of Sakdalists and authorities clashed in Cabuyao, Laguna where more than 100 people were massacred by Constabulary. Ramos and other Sakdalists fled to Japan. There he saw that Japan could support the desire to liberate the Philippines from the American imperialists. He was also dazzled by their program The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which is a program aimed at uniting Asian countries.

Ramos returned to the Philippines in 1938 and was on the wrong side of history when the Japanese entered. Ramos co-founded the MAKAPILI or Modern Katipunan ng mga Pilipino organization in November 1944. Contrary to popular culture, MAKAPILI was a formal organization founded by Artemio Ricarte to support the Japanese in the country, and not a group of people wearing baskets on their heads and teaching suspected guerrillas, but MAKAPILI is also notorious for volunteering to be a soldier under the Japanese and suing Filipinos who are fighting in Japan. By 1945 Ramos' fate at the hands of the Japanese was not clear. He is said to have been among the victims of the crash of a plane bound for Baguio, but some say he was killed by the Japanese because they had no use for it or fled with him to the Philippines to Japan.

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