TIMELINE: 'Ako si Ninoy': A young man in a hurry

"Everyone has been saying that Ninoy was always a Young Man in a Hurry," recalled the late newsman Max Soliven in a tribute he wrote for fallen opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. 10 years ago.

 

It was a fact affirmed by Aquino's mother, Aurora, who said that perhaps her son felt such immediacy because "he knew in his heart that his life would be so short."

 

But his was a life that boasted of feats that would perhaps overwhelm the youth of today — mayor and governor in his 20s, senator when he was barely 35, and the face and voice of the opposition to former President Ferdinand Marcos.

 

It was a life of tribulations made in the service of his people, which ultimately led to him being shot dead at the tarmac of the former Manila International Airport when he came home on August 21, 1983.

 

In this timeline produced in commemoration of his 30th death anniversary, get to know the man whose death sparked a nation-changing peaceful revolution. — Rose-An Jessica Dioquino, with Cristina Tantengco, GMA News