Happy 137 Birthday Anniversary Former President Sergio Osmina

September 9 2015 is a holiday in Cebu in connection to
former President Sergio Osmena’s birth anniversary

The nation will be commemorating the 137th birth anniversary of Commonwealth-era President Sergio Osmena Sr. this coming September 9, Wednesday.

September 9 is a special non-working holiday in the province of Cebu including all its component cities as mandated by Republic Act (RA) 6953. It is a special working holiday in the rest of the Philippines. RA 6953 was enacted in May 1990 during the time of then-President Corazon Aquino. Click here to read the full text of RA 6953.

Osmena served as governor, House Speaker, and senator prior to being elected Vice President in 1935. He ascended to the presidency in 1944 when Manuel Quezon died of tuberculosis. His tenure ended in 1946 following his loss to Manuel Roxas in that year’s elections.

Osmena, Roxas, and Carlos P. Garcia (1957 to 1961) were the only presidents who came from Visayas. Parenthetically, Mindanao is yet to produce a president.

He is also the first of four vice presidents to succeed a president. The second one was Elpidio Quirino, who took over after Roxas died of heart attack in 1948. Then there’s Carlos P. Garcia who became president after Ramon Magsaysay was killed during a plane crash in 1957.


The most recent one happened in 2001 after Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was sworn in as president when the Supreme Court decided that Joseph Estrada can no longer govern the country in the face of .

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Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro Manila

THIRD REGULAR SESSION

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of July. nineteen hundred and eighty nine.

Republic Act No. 6953

AN ACT DECLARING SEPTEMBER NINE OF EVERY YEAR A SPECIAL NON-WORKING PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE CITY OF CEBU AND THE PROVINCE OF CEBU WITH ITS COMPONENT CITIES AND A SPECIAL WORKING PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, IN HONOR OF THE LATE PRESIDENT SERGIO OSMEÑA, SR., AMENDING THEREBY BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG 937

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. September Nine of every year is hereby declared a special non-working public holiday in the City of Cebu and the Province of Cebu with its component cities and a special working public holiday in the rest of the country, in honor of the late President Sergio Osmeña, Sr.

Section 2. Batas Pambansa Bilang 937 is hereby amended accordingly.

Section 3. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,