Did you know: Remembering Manuel L. Quezon

Today, Aug. 19, is the 135th birth anniversary of President Manuel L. Quezon, the first president of the Philippine Commonwealth and father of the country’s national language. Appointed resident commissioner to the United States, he was known for the passage of the Jones Act which provided for the grant of Philippine independence as soon as a stable government was established in the country. He died of complications due to tuberculosis Aug. 1, 1944, in New York. His remains were interred in the North Cemetery Aug. 1, 1946.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research