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July 20 – Lalaine Bennett won 3rd Runner up of Miss Universe 1963 at Miami Beach, Florida, US.She is the first Filipina to Runner-up at Miss Universe. [1]July 28 – Twenty-four Filipino boy scouts and scout officials en route to Athens, Greece for the 11th World Jamboree were among the total of 60 people perished when the United Arab Airlines Flight 869 crashed into the Arabian Sea a few ...
As per Executive Order No. 292, chapter 7 section 26, the following are regular holidays and special days, approved on July 25, 1987. [35] Note that in the list, holidays in bold are "regular holidays" and those in italics are "nationwide special days". January 1 – New Year's Day; April 1 – Maundy Thursday; April 2 – Good Friday
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Typhoon Kammuri, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Tisoy, was a powerful typhoon which impacted the Philippines in early December 2019. Kammuri, which means crown or Corona Borealis in Japanese, the twenty-eighth named storm and sixteenth typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season, Kammuri developed from a tropical wave situated a couple hundred kilometers south of the Mariana Islands.
November 24: . Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority is formed by virtue of Republic Act 7227, known as the Bases Conversion and Development Act of 1992.; Subic Bay Naval Base closes as it is turned over to the local government, with a last batch of American soldiers finally leaving Naval Air Station Cubi Point and returning to the US, ending its military presence in the country.
Lopez Jaena Day is a public holiday to celebrate the birth of Philippine national hero Graciano López Jaena. It was declared a holiday by the Philippine National Government only for Iloilo Province and Iloilo City. Lopez Jaena's newspaper
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...
At 14:11 PST (06:11 UTC) on December 15, 2019, the province of Davao del Sur on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.8 M ww.It had a maximum perceived intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. [2]