January 3 in diaries

See the entries for the day and our Special Pages, too.

Today in history:

Front page of The Tribune, January 4, 1942. National Library of Australia Collection.

Don’t forget these Special Features from our site:

To mark the 80th anniversary of World War II in the Philippines, we published several monthly collections covering the first few months of the War. To find out what happened today, January 4, in 1942, visit our special page, January 1942: WW2PH 80 Years After. See the whole month, day-by-day, including diary entries for each day, a timeline, photographs, and documents!

Same person, different years:

Ferdinand E. Marcos, in 1970, in 1971 and 1972.

Gen. Fidel Segundo, in 1938 and 1940.

Other years:

1945: Tomas Confesor, resistance leader; Leon Ma. Guerrero, Filipino diplomat in Tokyo; Gen. Basilio Valdes, Philippine Army chief of staff; American internee in UST: Raymond Leyerly.

1943: Louise Fillmore Blancaflor, American married to a Filipino in Iloilo.

1936: Francis Burton Harrison, adviser to Pres. Quezon.

1932: Marcial Lichauco, member of the OsRox Mission.

1899: Alfred Welch, James Loughrey, John Asendorf, American soldiers; John E.T. Milsaps, Salvation Army missionary.

1882: José Rizal, from his Madrid diary.