On February 6, 1964, General Emilio Famy Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine Revolution and first President of the First Philippine Republic, died at 3:05 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Hospital (now Veterans Memorial Medical Center) in Quezon City. He was 94 years old and succumbed to coronary thrombosis, a type of heart attack, after a long period of illness and confinement.
On February 7, 1986, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducted presidential and vice‑presidential "snap" elections. Incumbent President Ferdinand E. Marcos and running mate Arturo M. Tolentino of the ruling Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) faced the opposition tandem of Corazon C. Aquino and Salvador H. Laurel, who ran under the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO).
On February 8, 1935, the Philippine Constitutional Convention sitting in Manila approved the draft of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines, the fundamental law that would govern the Commonwealth and guide the country to eventual independence from the United States. This charter, often called the Commonwealth Constitution, became the basic law of the land until it was superseded during the Marcos period and later replaced by the 1987 Constitution.
On February 8, 1890, Claro Mayo Recto Jr. was born in the town of Tiaong, then part of the province of Tayabas (now Quezon). He would become one of the country's most brilliant lawyers, constitutionalists, writers, and nationalist statesmen, remembered as the "Father of the 1935 Philippine Constitution" and as a fierce critic of foreign domination in Philippine political and economic life.
On February 9, 1837 Father Jose Apolonio Burgos, one of the three Filipino Martyr Priests collectively called GOMBURZA, was born in the town of Vigan, Ilocos Sur.