California observed Larry Itliong Day on October 25, 2026, with a proclamation honoring the Filipino American labor organizer. Itliong’s union of Filipino farmworkers began the 1965 Delano grape strike. October 25 marks the 113th anniversary of his birth, and a 2015 state law requires the governor to proclaim the day every year. Key Takeaways Larry Itliong was born October 25, 1913, in San Nicolas, Pangasinan, in the Philippines, and came to the United States in