1899 Lt. Col. Thomas H. Hamer is assigned as the first American military governor of Cebu. Cebu is designated as a subdistrict under the Department of the Visayas with headquarters in Iloilo. On this day, the Americans also establish in what is now Freedom Park the Post of Cebu, later called Warwick Barracks. 1902 Birth […]
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Fernando Buyser
Fernando Buyser, also known as Floripinas, was born in Kalunangan, Leyte on the 30th of May, 1879. He died in Mainit, Surigao on the 16th of November, 1946. He was known as a poet, fictionist and playwright. He worked as an elementary school teacher in San Isidro, Leyte, then as an interisland ship officer. In […]