Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino dead at 76

Former Philippine President Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino died at age 76 due to cardiac arrest exacyly 3:18 a.m. at the Makati Medical Center on August 1, 2009. She was diagnosed from colon cancer last March 2008.

“Before she died, her children were around her, praying the fifth sorrowful mystery of the rosary … That was when she drew her last breath,” TV host Boy Abunda, a close friend of Aquino’s celebrity daughter Kris Aquino, told reporters at the hospital lobby at around 5:40 a.m. [Inquirer]