On November 21, 1898, the American Commissioners presented an ultimatum, in which they demanded the cession of the entire Philippine Archipelago while on the other hand they offered to pay Spain $20,000,000, and to insert in the treaty of peace a mutual relinquishment of claims.
Jose Corazon de Jesús, "Bayan Ko" poet and King of Balagtasan, emerged as the defining poetic voice of his era, his command of verse and performance making him instantly recognizable to the Filipino public. Celebrated under the pen name Huseng Batute, he transformed the daily newspaper and the public stage into platforms for championing independence, exalting romantic emotion, and elevating Tagalog into a language of literary prestige.
Filemon Sotto was a prominent Filipino lawyer, legislator, and journalist from Cebu who played a significant role in the drafting of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines which laid the foundation for the Commonwealth Government and later the Republic of the Philippines.
On November 22, 1935, a crowd of around 125,000 spectators gathered on the shores of San Francisco Bay to witness the take-off of the Pan American World Airways famed flying-boat, China Clipper, on the first trans-Pacific commercial flight in history.
On November 22, 1787, Pedro de Sarrio was re-appointed as Governor-General of the Philippines ad interim for the second time, marking a significant transition in Spanish colonial administration during one of the archipelago's most economically transformative periods.
The life of Jose Clemente Zulueta stands as a profound, albeit tragically short, testament to the intellectual and patriotic fervor that animated the Philippine Revolution and the subsequent birth of the First Philippine Republic. While his name may not resonate as loudly as those of his more famous contemporaries, his contributions as a writer, bibliographer, statesman, and historian were foundational to the nationalist movement and to the very discipline of Philippine historiography itself. He was a multi-faceted figure whose pursuits were deeply intertwined, culminating in a visionary project to reclaim and re-narrate the Filipino story from a Filipino perspective.
On November 23, 1898, a commission of 10 members, presided over by Felipe Agoncillo, was formed in a move to launch an information blitz to heighten the awareness of the Western world on the capacity of the Filipinos to govern themselves.