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Friday, December 3, 2010
- He is the first unmarried president in the history of the country, thus , the first president without children.
- He is the first president since Diosdado Macapagal to be elected as the candidate of the liberal party; also the first president since Macapagal not to have changed political parties
- He is the first to use the suffix- III ( there have been no Juniors or the Thirds elected president previously)
- He is the first president to have a February birthday. Two presidents were born in January. Three in march; two in April; two in August; Three in September; Two in November
- The President of the Philippines uses license plate number 1.
- He is only the second president who does not drink alcohol beverages.
- Aquino is the first president, since 1992, inaugurated into office without having been vice president. His predecessors Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo were both vice presidents before becoming presidents.
- At 50, Aquino is the 15th president. He is president at the same age at which his father, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. was assassinated
- Amusingly, Aquino was also proclaimed president-elect on June9,2010, 9 months after his declaration of candidacy on 9/9/2009
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