A replay of this episode was aired on January 1, 2010 as part of the 2009 Rizal Day celebration after two days of Rizal Day.

Rizal Day (Philippines)

Critics began to notice his literary skills more when he joined a contest sponsored by the newspaper El Renacimiento in commemoration of Rizal Day.

According to Coates, the second stanza (based on a 1977 lecture by Coates about the poem during a celebration of Rizal Day) that "a war (...) is going on.

The blasts occurred during a national holiday in the Philippines, where December 30 is known as Rizal Day, commemorating the martyrdom of the country's national hero, José Rizal.

The first President, Emilio Aguinaldo, was inaugurated on 23 January 1899, while Presidents under the 1935 Constitution were inaugurated at noon of Rizal Day (30 December).

December 30 - Araw ng Kabayanihan ni Dr. José Rizal (Rizal Day)

Philippines - Rizal Day (December 30)

On a speech given on Rizal Day, December 30, 2002, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared that she would not run in the 2004 elections.

Starting in 1936, Rizal Day was also the inauguration day of the incoming president.