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Bring history as it happened to your inbox today.
About the Philippine Diary Project
The Philippine Diary Project aims to make diaries written by both famous and unknown Filipinos, and foreigners writing about the Philippines, available to the public. It is a non-profit site.
As much as possible, diaries that are out of print, released only in limited print runs, or or which were published online in defunct websites, have been included in order to more fully disseminate those diaries.
This project also features diaries that have never been published, either in part or in full.
Diaries made available in digital copies in institutional sites, whether libraries or archives, have also been included.
We welcome committed volunteers and those willing to lend assistance scanning, encoding, and proofreading entries. We respect and uphold the copyright of the authors of these works or their heirs; please contact us if you have any concerns.
This site was set up in April, 2008 and is owned, and managed, by Manuel L. Quezon III. It transferred from WordPress to its own domain in September, 2013.
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Bring history as it happened to your inbox!
This newsletter aims to bring you history as it happened, day by day, through diary entries.
For example, for today, December 16, we have the following entries:
1521: Antonio Pigafetta (our earliest diary!)
1898: Alfred Burton Welch, an American soldier with the Washington Volunteer Infantry; John E.T. Milsaps, a Salvation Army missionary in Manila.
1899: Simeon Villa, with the staff of President Aguinaldo; William Herman Wilhelm, an officer in the U.S. Army.
1907: William Dupré Smith, Chief of the Division of Mines, Bureau of Science.
1926: Beatrice Livingstone, a tourist visiting the Philippines.
1931: Marcial Lichauco, member of the OsRox Mission.
1941: American civilians in Manila and its environs: Tressa Cates, Gladys Savary, Lucy Hardee Olsen, Herman K. Beaber. American civilians elsewhere: Natalie Crouter (Baguio) Elizabeth Vaughan (Negros); American military personnel: David L. Obert, pilot, John P. Burns, pilot, Gen. Lewis Beebe chief of staff, USAFFE, U.S.S. Canopus (Luzon), George E. Steiger (USMC officer on Corregidor), (Bataan); John P. Horan IV (USAFFE commander in Baguio); Filipino and Spanish civilians in Manila: Fr. Juan Labrador, O.P., Rector of Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Teodoro M. Locsin, journalist.
1942: Takeuchi Tatsuji, member of the Research Commission on the Philippines.
1944: Filipino civilians: Victor Buencamino, head of NARIC; Felipe Buencamino III, former USAFFE officer, Louise Fillmore Blancaflor (an American married to a Filipino in Negros); American military internees: Warren Wilson; American civilian internees: Albert Holland, Raymond Leyerly (UST, Manila); Natalie Crouter (Baguio); American servicemen: Charles Statler, Steacy Hicks.
1978: Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Philippines.
2014: Fr. Amado Picardal.
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