| Event date: December 30, 1896 |
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Aug 02, 2007 at 07:56 PM |
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Dr. José Rizal was Executed First exiled to Mindanao, Rizal was later arrested for "inciting rebellion" based largely on his writings (Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo). Rizal was executed in Manila on December 30, 1896 at the age of thirty-five by a firing squad of Filipino native infantry, backed by an insurance force of Spanish troops. The Spanish surgeon general requested to take his pulse; it was normal. Aware of this, the Spanish sergeant in charge of the backup force hushed his men to silence when they began raising 'vivas!' with the partisan crowd. His last words were "consummatum est",--it is finished. |
