shooting in Manila！ The film stars Jeremy Renner as the new CIA agent Aaron Cross, subbing for Matt Damon, who has starred in the first three installments. It will also star A-list celebrities Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton.
"The Bourne Legacy" was filmed over eight locations in Metro Manila
On August 28, 1851, Nazaria Lagos, maker of the first Philippine flag in Iloilo, was born in Dueñas, Iloilo.
Lagos sewed the Philippine flag that was raised in the Dueñas town square on June 12, 1899, the first anniversary of the proclamation of the country's independence in Kawit, Cavite by General Emilio Aguinaldo.
Known as the “Florence Nightingale of Panay,” Lagos, a Red Cross leader in the Visayas region, had done numerous humanitarian activities, including the nursing of the revolutionaries.
She helped build a hospital for the rebels by providing bamboo beds, chairs, tables, shelves, cabinets, and clothing materials.
She cared for the wounded and sick Filipino soldiers even after she lost two of her children during a smallpox epidemic.
The Red Cross helped her by soliciting food and clothes. Hence, she became the Revolution's first nurse and later, director of the Hospital of the Revolutionary Army.
Ninoy Aquino Day is a national non-working holiday in the Philippines observed annually on August 21, commemorating the anniversary of the 1983 assassination of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr..
He was the husband of former president Corazon Aquino; they are treated as two of the heroes of democracy in the country.
His assassination led to the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos on February 25, 1986, through the People Power Revolution.
Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. (November 27, 1932 – August 21, 1983)
