Related events:
Friday 27th of November 1970 (x) — 262nd Pope Paulus VI is attacked with a knife by surrealist painter Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, dressed as a priest Paulus VI was only lightly stabbed. Sunday 21st of August 1983 (-) — Leader of the opposition Benigno Aquino is shot dead upon returning from a 3-year self-imposed exile in the USA Aquino's body lay in state in a glass coffin. No effort was made to disguise a bullet wound that had disfigured his face. In an interview with Aquino's mother Aurora told the funeral parlor not to apply makeup nor embalm her son, to see "what they did to my son". Thousands of supporters flocked to see the bloodied body of Aquino, which took place at the Aquino household in Times St., Quezon City for nine days.
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