Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Vice President of the Philippines (born 1928)

Salvador Laurel

Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel, also known as Doy Laurel, was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under President Corazon Aquino and briefly served as the last Prime Minister from February 25 to March 25, 1986, when the position was abolished. He was a major leader of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO), the political party that helped topple the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos with the 1986 People Power Revolution.

Born

1928

November 18

Died

2004

Era

1920s

Country

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About

Salvador, in brief

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1928 Born
2004 Died

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326 The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
401 The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
1095 The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1105 Maginulfo is elected Antipope Sylvester IV in opposition to Pope Paschal II.

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The world in 1928

When Salvador arrived

april 12 The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
august 27 The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
december 17 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
december 4 Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.

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David Ortiz 1975– Dominican-American baseball player Eugene Ormandy 1899–1985 Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899) Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (died 1929) 1856– Hank Ballard 1927–2003 American singer-songwriter (born 1927) Herman Rarebell 1949– German rock drummer and songwriter Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860–1941 Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (born 1860) Jack Tatum 1948–2010 American football player (born 1948) Koichiro Kimura 1969– Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler (died 2014) Leonardo Sandri 1943– Argentinian cardinal

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1928

Alan J. Pakula 1928–1998 American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1998) Alexander Grothendieck 1928–2014 German-French mathematician and theorist (died 2014) Andy Warhol 1928–1987 American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987) Anne Sexton 1928–1974 American poet and academic (died 1974) Anthony Franciosa 1928–2006 American actor (born 1928) Barbara Ann Scott 1928–2012 Canadian figure skater (died 2012) Billy Martin 1928–1989 American baseball player and manager (born 1928) Bob Cousy 1928– American basketball player and coach Bob Wilber 1928– American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 2019)

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