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The Manila Film Center is a building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, Philippines.The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles [1] which reaches to the bed-rock about 120 feet below.
November 17 – Manila Film Center collapses, [7] killing 169 workers. November 24 – Typhoon Irma batters the northern part of the island of Luzon , killing more than 50 people. [ 5 ]
17 November 1981 - During the construction of the Manila Film Center, the scaffolding [133] collapsed, [134] [135] and at least 169 [136] [137] workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement. [138] Seven people were officially listed as having been killed in the accident. [139]
On June 22, 1994, during the 1994 Manila Film Festival awarding ceremonies in Manila, Philippines, hosts, actress and beauty queen Ruffa Gutierrez, her brother—actor Rocky Gutierrez, actress Nanette Medved, and Mauritian beauty queen Viveka Babajee read an erroneous set of winners for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, which included Gutierrez herself, in a manner that raised ...
October 1 – The Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 11 convicts 10 members of the Aegis Juris fraternity for the 2017 hazing death of Atio Castillo and sentences them to life imprisonment. [276] October 2 – President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12023, imposing a 12% value-added tax (VAT) on foreign digital service providers. [277 ...
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Portal:Philippines/Did you know/1 ... that during the construction of the Manila Film Center (pictured), its scaffolding collapsed, where at least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement?
Deaths: Mabazza died same day; Vicoy died April 25 in Tuguegarao, same province A convoy of army soldiers and journalists was ambushed by the NPA; also killed were eight soldiers. Mabazza and Vicoy, 45, who died later in a hospital, were the first journalists killed while covering the communist insurgency. NUJP CMFR [11] [34] [45] [48] [49] [31]