National Heroes: How are they "selected"?

• When was the former president Ferdinand Marcos buried in the Libingan ng mga bayani?

  2016
• Declined the position as the editor of La Solidaridad

  Jose Rizal
• Rizal was chosen as the head over _______ which he declined.

  Marcelo del Pilar
• Who established La Liga Filipina

  Marcelo del Pilar
• Who was the honorary president of La Liga Filipina

  Jose Rizal
• December 20, 1898 - Aguinaldo declared December 30 as Rizal Day and National Day of Mourning
• Dec. 30 became annual national holiday through Act No. 345 of the 1902 Philippine Commission.
• Act No. 317 of 1901 - Birthed the Province of Rizal.
• Act No. 233 of 1901 - erected the Rizal Monument at Luneta
• RA 229 of 1948 - prohibited gambling like cockfighting every Dec. 30
• Executive Order No. 429 of President Carlos Garcia who established the Rizal Pro Patria Award.
• Executive Order No. 75 of 1993 - In 1993, President Fidel Ramos issued an executive order regarding the formal acknowledgement, through declaration, of National Heroes.
• The National Heroes Committee is composed of the Secretary of Education (Chairman), Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of National Defense.
• The in-charge of learning about, evaluating, and recommending people subjected of the recognition and declaration of being national heroes.

  National Heroes Committee
• Who was delegated, through its Executive Director, to draw up clear-cut criteria for heroes.

  National Heroes Institute
• A nationalist historian who was cited as an authority in 1965, which finalized the criteria for national heroes through another analogous commission.

  Teodoro Agoncillo