Irvin George Abrina 
Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, whom is also known in a shorter moniker as Jose Rizal, is the Philippines’ national hero and the author of two seminal works that were instrumental in the fight for independence: Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
One of the national holidays in the Philippines is Rizal Day, and many Filipinos have been celebrating the occasion in the same way for many years. It was established that the execution of Jose Rizal at Bagumbayan, now known as Rizal Park, would be commemorated annually on December 30. The first celebration of the memorial holiday was in 1988, some years after Rizal’s execution in 1898.
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