9 September

1835

Pedro Antonio Salazar Castillo y Varona, native of Ibrillos (Rioja), Spain, and military officer, becomes ad interim governor. He endeavors to develop the cultivation of cotton and tea in the Philippines, but the experiment did not produce material result.


1878


Birth of Sergio OsmeƱa, Sr., journalist, nationalist, Speaker of the First Philippine Assembly and second President of the Commonwealth, in Cebu. Died on October 19, 1961.


1900

Emilio Aguinaldo invites the townpeople to a luncheon-meeting at the convent of Palanan and speaks to them of their patriotic duties especially with regards to the Americans.