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View of Manila, Philippines, in May 1958. Date: May 1958: Source: U.S. Navy photo from the USS Philippine Sea (CVS-47) 1957-1958 cruise book available at Navysite.de:
Dedicated by the City of Manila to the United Nations. On International Day July 10, 1951, the UN flag was raised here. U.N. Avenue: English 1951 "Where Marcos Was Confined" The room where President Ferdinand Marcos was confined for the illness contracted during his WWII army service (most probably a hoax) Ward 8, Philippine General Hospital ...
BBC-2 logo used from 1978 to 1981. When then President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law with Proclamation No. 1081 on September 23, 1972, ABS-CBN was forced to shut down. . Its stations were seized from the Lopezes - DZAQ-TV Channel 2 was turned over to Roberto Benedicto and became DWWX-TV Channel 2 (BBC-2) under Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation on November 4, 1973; DZXL-TV Channel 4 was ...
Bonifacio Day was added through Philippine Legislature Act No. 2946. It was signed by then-Governor General Francis Burton Harrison in 1921. [5] On October 28, 1931, the Act No. 3827 was approved declaring the last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day. [6] January 1 – New Year's Day; February 22 – Legal Holiday; March 29 – Maundy Thursday
The Metro Manila Film Festival was first held. Population: 1,479,116 city; 4,880,006 metro. [28] 1976 Capital of the Philippines was relocated to Manila from Quezon City. [36] Philippine International Convention Center was built in Pasay. Ali Mall, the first shopping mall in the Philippines, opened in Quezon City. Harrison Plaza opened in ...
ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) was a Philippine commercial broadcast network that served as the flagship property of the ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under the Lopez Holdings Corporation.
The Ateneo Art Gallery is a museum of modern art of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is the first of its kind in the Philippines. [1] It serves as an art resource for the university community and the general public as well. The Gallery is located at the Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon ...
GMA Network was founded on March 1, 1950 by American entrepreneur Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart as Loreto F. de Hemedes Inc. The company launched its first radio station, DZBB on June 14, 1950. Its first broadcast on television was launched on October 29, 1961, and the television station was known as DZBB Channel 7.