#FilipinoHistorian #TodayInHistory #OnThisDay #IndependenceDay #RepublicDay On July 4, 1946, the Philippines was granted independence by the United States pursuant to the Tydings-McDuffie Act, which provided for a 10-year Commonwealth period prior to independence. Despite being interrupted by the Pacific War, which saw the Philippines also being granted independence by Japan in October 1943 through a Japanese-sponsored republic and integrated to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, propos