Wednesday, July 18, 2012

July 18



JULY 18
Hits Vol. 2 No. 99, July 18, 1988
On the cover: American singer and four-time Grammy winner Pat Benatar.
 
SULYAP SA NAKARAAN
Pinoy Komiks Taon 1 Blg. 5, Hulyo 18, 1963
Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang orihinal na “Captain Barbell”
na kinatha ni Mars Ravelo na iginuhit ni Jim Fernandez
 
Events that happened on July 18:
1893 – Rosario Villaroel was accepted as a Mason with the name “Minerva” becoming the first Filipina auxilliary of the Masonic order, La Semilla.


Personalities and celebrities born on July 18:
1875 – Marina Dizon, first woman member admitted to the Katipunan women’s chapter – in Trozo, Manila (d. October 25, 1950).
1977 – Sunshine Cruz, actress and singer – in Manila.
Sunshine Cruz
on the cover of Celebrity World (December 26, 1994)
  
The Star Wars Character C-3PO
The Star Wars droid C-3PO, on the cover
of People Weekly July 18, 1977 issue.
          In the Star Wars universe, C-3PO is a protocol droid constructed to serve people and animals. The droid is an expert in more than six million languages and different means of communication. Its priority task is to aid in the communication, racial interrelation in connection to the tradition and culture of different races of beings and the translation and interpreting of different languages.
          In the first three original Star Wars series and the three prequel series, C-3PO is always accompanied by another droid – R2-D2. The C-3PO (voiced by Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (voiced by Kenny Baker) are the only two characters having the same portrayers in the six Star Wars films.

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Angelina Jolie on the cover of
Entertainment Weekly (July 18, 2003)
Picture Trivia
          Do you know the title of the film that Angelina Jolie first appeared together with her father Jon Voight? It was in the film Lookin’ to Get Out (1982), when she was just seven years old.
          Jolie’s acting talent was first noticed in the low-budget film Cyborg 2 (1993). She was first included in a major film starring role in Hackers (1995). In the film Girl, Interrupted (1999), she won the Academy Best Supporting Actress Award.
          Jolie zoomed into stardom and became an instant international superstar for her portrayal of a video game heroine, Lara Croft, in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and its sequel Tomb Raider 2: The Craddle of Life (2003), when she became among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.
          In her relationship with actor Brad Pitt, she gave birth to three children (Shiloh Nouvel and the twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline), and they have three adopted children (Maddox Chivan from Cambodia, Zahara Marley from Ethiopia and Pax Thien from Vietnam).
          Aside from her beauty at seductive lips, Jolie is known for her many tattoos in her body (14 are publicly known), including the geographical coordinates (latitude at longitude) of the places where here children were born.

 
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