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(Casket of late former President Corazon Aquino passes by EDSA  on August 3, 2009 (Credit: militaryphotos.net))
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Born in Manila, "Tita Cory," as she was fondly called, was the mother of the country's 15th and current President, Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III. She is best remembered for leading the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution which toppled the authoritarian regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.
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Notably, she was revered by some  Filipinos as the Philippines' "Icon of Democracy".  She was also hailed by TIME Magazine as the "Saint of Democracy",  due to her well-known spiritual life.
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Prior to her post as president, Cory was known as the self-proclaimed "plain housewife" of the Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr., the popular opposition leader and staunchest critic of the Marcos administration, who was assassinated on August 21, 1983 upon returning to the Philippines after his three-year self-exile in the United States.
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August 1, 2009: Corazon Aquino died of colon cancer