October 16, 1907, the Philippine Assembly was Inaugurated
Today in Philippine History. On October 16, 1907, the Philippine Assembly was inaugurated at the Manila Grand Opera House. The event was attended both by US Secretary of War William Howard Taft and the new Governor-General James Francis Smith.
Manuel L. Quezon’s “Message To My People.” A Rare Recording.
Manuel L. Quezon's speech entitled "Message to My People" was his only known recorded speech. It was recorded in the 1920s, "when [President Manuel Quezon] was first diagnosed with tuberculosis and assumed he didn't have much longer to live" according to his grandson Manuel L. Quezon III.
