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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 842, April 23, 1971 ]

DECLARING TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1971, AS LAPU-LAPU DAY.

WHEREAS, Tuesday, April 27, 1971, marks the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Mactan, the first successful Filipino armed resistance against foreign domination; and

WHEREAS, the Filipino people should pay homage and get inspiration from the heroic acts of Lapu-Lapu who valiantly resisted the earliest attempt of foreigners to enslave our people;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare April 27, 1971, as Lapu-Lapu Day throughout the Philippines and a special holiday in Lapu-Lapu City.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.1aшphi1

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

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