Significant Events in July in Filipino History
On July 7, 1879, the Manila Observatory under the direction of Father Fedirico Faura better known as "Padre Faura", issued its first ever typhoon warning giving notice that a typhoon would cross northern Luzon and may cause much damage unless precautions were taken. Nobody paid attention and much damage resulted.
On July 7, 1975, Eugenio Lopez Sr., self-exiled former industrial, broadcasting and publishing executive and a critic of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, died of cancer at French Hospital (present day Kaiser Permanente French Campus) in San Francisco, California. He was 74 years old.
On July 7, 1864, Isabelo de los Reyes also known as Don Belong, co-founder of the Aglipayan Church, often dubbed as the "Father of Filipino Socialism", was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur to Elias de los Reyes and Leona Florentino, a well known poetess of the Philippines. At the age six, the young Isabelo was committed by his father to the care of a rich relative, Don Mena Crisologo due to his parents' troubled marriage.
On July 7, 1892, Governor-General Eulogio Despujol made public the order of the deportation of Dr. Jose Rizal to Dapitan, through a decree published in the Gaceta, to a remote town in Zamboanga.
On July 8, 1929, Dwight Filley Davis arrived in Manila to assume the post of Governor-General of the Philippines. He was appointed by U.S. President Herbert Hoover to succeed Henry L. Stimson. He was accompanied by his daughter, Alice, in the place of her mother who was unable to accompany him for reasons of health.