What is Diosdado Macapagal?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix=[[Excellency|His Excellency]] |name = Diosdado Macapagal |image = Diosdado Macapagal photo.jpg |imagesize = |caption = Diosdado Macapagal in 1962 |office = [[List of Presidents of the Philippines|9th]] [[President of the Philippines]] |term_start = December 30, 1961 |term_end = December 30, 1965 |vicepresident = [[Emmanuel Pelaez]] |predecessor = [[Carlos P. García]] |successor = [[Ferdinand Marcos]] |order2 = 5th [[Vice President of the Philippines]] |term_start2 = December 30, 1957 |term_end2 = December 30, 1961 |president2 = [[Carlos P. García]] |predecessor2 = [[Carlos P. García]] |successor2 = [[Emmanuel Pelaez]] |birth_name = Diosdado Pangan Macapagal |birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1910|9|28}} |birth_place = [[Lubao, Pampanga]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]] |death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1997|4|21|1910|9|28}} |death_place = [[Makati]], [[Metro Manila]], [[Philippines]] |resting_place = |restingplacecoordinates = {{coord|14|31|11|N|121|2|39|E|region:PH}} |nationality = [[Filipino people|Filipino]] |party = [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]] |alma_mater = [[University of the Philippines]]<br />[[University of Santo Tomas]] |profession = [[Lawyer]]<br />[[Professor]] |signature = Diosdado Macapagal autograph.svg }} '''Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr.''' (September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997) was the ninth President of the [[Philippines]]. He is known for changing the country's Independence Day from July 4 to June 12. June 12 is the day President [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] declared [[independence]] of the [[First Philippine Republic]] from the [[Spanish Empire]] in 1898. He is the father of [[Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]], who was the fourteenth President of the Philippines from 2001