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Day of Valor

Public holiday in the Philippines

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Day of Valor, officially known in Filipino as Araw ng Kagitingan, is a national observance in the Philippines that commemorates the fall of Bataan and the Battle of Corregidor against Japanese troops during World War II. The day is officially celebrated every April 9, marking the start of the Bataan Death March, although the date has been moved on several occasions to avoid coinciding with the observance of Holy Week in the country, particularly the Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, such as in 2004, 2009, 2020, and 2023.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Day of Valor” is public holiday in the Philippines. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Valor, Public and holiday, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2009, 2020, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Valor, Public and holiday is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Day of Valor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.