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The 1587 event marks the first documented instance of Asians in what is now California, [33] or anywhere in what is now the United States, [4] [34] North America, [35] the Americas. [36] The landing of the first Filipinos at Morro Bay, which occurred 33 years before the events at Plymouth Rock, [b] is often overlooked, even by Filipino ...
1974, Benjamin Menor appointed first Filipino American in a state's highest judiciary office as Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. [115] Thelma Buchholdt is the first Filipino American, and first Asian American, woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, in the Alaska House of Representatives. [116] [117]
The first Asian-origin people known to arrive in North America after the beginning of the European colonization were a group of Filipinos known as "Luzonians" or Luzon Indians. These Luzonians were part of the crew and landing party of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza.
October was chosen to commemorate the arrival of the first Filipinos who landed in what is now Morro Bay, California on October 18, 1587. [2] It is also the birth month of Filipino American labor leader Larry Itliong. [3] In California and Hawaii, where many Filipino Americans reside, [4] Filipino American History Month is celebrated annually. [5]
Upon becoming the largest Asian American group in California, October was established as Filipino American History Month to acknowledge the first landing of Filipinos on October 18, 1587 in Morro Bay, California. It is widely celebrated by Filipino Americans. [308] [309]
This source, [1], states “the first Filipinos in North America who arrived in Morro Bay, California, in 1587”. This source as well, [2], from the Statutes of California and Digests of Measures, No.65, uses the exact same language: “The first recorded arrival of Filipinos in what is now Morro Bay”. Arrival is more precise.
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This ultimately helped contribute to the defeat of the Filipino independence forces, and the war officially ended in 1902. [8] Following the U.S. annexation of the Philippines, Filipinos began to emigrate to the United States. [9] In 1903, the first documented group of Filipinos emigrated to the United States. [10]