Woman of the Year: 1986

photo from TIME magazine website

Champion of Democracy
TIME chose Corazon Aquino as its Person of the Year for 1986, recognizing her central role in one of the most compelling dramas in recent history — the widowed housewife who avenges her husband's death by overthrowing the regime widely blamed for his murder. In February 1986, Aquino rose to the presidency of the Philippines after a popular uprising that forced Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos from power. She was the first woman to be designated TIME's Person of the Year since Queen Elizabeth II for 1952.

Cory Aquino died today at 3:18AM due to Cardiac Respiratory Arrest. She battled Colon Cancer for almost 2 years, she was 76.

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