On November 30, 1863, Andres Bonifacio, the Father of the Philippine Revolution and one of the founders of the Katipunan, was born in the present-day Tondo, Manila, to Santiago Bonifacio and Catalina de Castro. The post Today in History: November 30, birth of Andres Bonifacio first appeared on BusinessMirror.
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