Aguinaldo Highway: Named After a Revolutionary

The General

He conceptualized the earlier design of today’s Filipino flag during his exile in British-held Hong Kong in 1897, the latest version these days fluttering outside government buildings throughout the republic – from TawiTawi in the south to Batanes in the north.
He also approved the melody of the Philippine National Anthem, composed by Julian Felipe, a Filipino music teacher and composer from Cavite, who completed it on June 11, 1898, and, by official accounts showed it to General Emilio Aguinaldo, “who right away liked it because of its inspiring melody.”
Some documents say the following day the music band of San Francisco de Malabon performed it for the first time during the unfolding of the Filipino flag at Kawit during the Independence Day ceremony on June 12, 1898 – the basis for then President Diosdado Macapagal to issue Proclamation 374 on March 6, 1975 to change the date of Philippine Independence from July 4 to June 12.
He is General Emilio Aguinaldo, also referred to as Heneral Miong, who was born on March 22, 1869 in Cavite el Viejo, Kawit in present-day Cavite province, the local leader of the Tondo, Manila’s Andres Bonifacio-led Katipunan, a revolutionary society that fought bitterly against the Spaniards.
Aguinaldo, a politician and military leader, became the president in 1898 at the age of 29, the first and the youngest president of the Philippines and the first chief executive of a constitutional republic in Asia.
In 2019, the sesquicentennial birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader was commemorated in Cavite, themed “Kalayaan at Kasarinlan” and was observed with simple rites at the Aguinaldo Shrine or the family mansion on Tirona Highway, previously called Calle Real, in Barangay Kaingin, Kawit.