When The Best Mayor of Manila ever had, Gat Arcenio Lacson in 1958, proclaimed June 24 as Manila's "Foundation Day", he was criticized for exalting a colonial event; since Manila already existed way long before 1571, it could have not founded by Legaspi. But The Great Mayor acted on Faustian man's obsession with definite data; an invented "nationalist" date to mark the foundation old pre-1571 Manila would be pure myth-making, an activity repellent to the man of history.
Matapos pinawalang bisang eleksyon sa Tejeros, ni Gat Bonifacio, kaniyang inimbita ang isang Kolonel Agapito Bonzon, alyas "Kolonel Yntong" noong Abril 27, 1897 magkipagalmusal, sa pansamantalang tinutuluyang bahay ng Supremo.