6: Number of presidents whose inaugural ceremonies were held at the Quirino Grandstand: Elpidio Quirino, Ramon Magsaysay, Carlos P. Garcia, Diosdado Macapagal, Ferdinand Marcos and Fidel Ramos.

150,000: Estimated number of people who attended Quirino?s presidential inauguration in 1949 at the grandstand directly facing the Rizal Monument at the Luneta Park. The place was later renamed the Quirino Grandstand.

1953: Year that Ramon Magsaysay took his oath as president. Magsaysay was the first president to wear a barong to his inaugural rites.

2: Number of inaugurals of President Manuel Roxas in a year. He was inaugurated as the last Commonwealth president and as president of the new Republic of the Philippines in 1946.

1986: Year that the Philippines had two oath-taking ceremonies for president. One was that of Corazon Aquino at the Club Filipino. The other was that of Ferdinand Marcos in Malacañang.

10: Duration in minutes of President Aquino?s inaugural speech in 1986, one of the shortest in Philippine history.

1998: Year that Joseph Estrada took his oath as President at the Barasoain Church, the venue of the inauguration of the first Constitutional Republic led by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. After the first Barasoain inauguration, no other Filipino administration before that of Estrada?s was inaugurated in a church.

30: Number of times that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s inaugural speech in 2004was applauded, according to a Malacañang statement.

Sources: Philippine Presidents (100 Years), PDI Archives
Compiled by Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research