December 12



DECEMBER 12

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 33, December 12, 1995 

On the Cover: Kris Aquino and her son Joshua

 

Disyembre 12 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Disyembre 12, 1941, nakipaglaban sa himpapawid si Captain Jesus Villamor kasama ang ilang mandirigmang pilotong Filipino laban sa 54 na eroplanong pandigma ng mga hapon na sumalakay sa Batangas Air Field. Matagumpay na naitaboy nina Villamor ang mga dayuhan.

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GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

Fashion designer Florette Townsend

 on the cover of Jet (December 12, 1957).

 

Personalities and celebrities born on December 12:

1858 – Valeriano Hernandez Peña, poet, fictionist and author of the first Tagalog novel – in San Jose, Bulacan, Bulacan (d. September 7, 1922).

1930 – Cesar Enrique Aguinaldo Virata, technocrat, politician, Finance Minister and Prime Minister (1973-1981) – in Manila.

1934 – Rene Luna Cayetano, lawyer, journalist, politician and senator – in Pangasinan. (d. June 24, 2003).

1935 – Epimaco Ardina Velasco, government official and politician – in Tanza, Cavite (d. January 27, 2014).

1964 – Lydia de Vega, athlete, sprinter and Asia’s fastest woman athlete in the 1980s – in Meycauayan, Bulacan.

Lydia de Vega
on the cover of Teens Weekly (March 18, 1982).



1966 – Pops Fernandez (full name Maria Cielito Lukban Fernandez), singer and actress – in Quezon City.

Pops Fernandez
on the covers of Good Housekeeping Philippines (June 2002), S Magazine (September 2007) and Health Today Philippines (March 2008)

1979 – Carlos Agassi (full name Amir Carlos Damaso Vahidi Agassi), Iranian-Filipino actor, model, television host and rap artist – in Makati City.

Carlos Agassi
on the cover of Star Studio (August 2002).

1980 – Bobby Pacquiao (full name Alberto Dapidran Pacquiao), boxer – in Bukidnon.

1986 – Denver Cuello, boxer – in Cabatuan, Iloilo.

1988 – AJ “Bazooka” Banal (full name Alex John Banal), boxer – in Cebu City.

 



Denise Richards on the cover of
Playboy (December 2004).

Picture Trivia

          Do you know that Hollywood actress and fashion model Denise Richards posed nude for Playboy barely five months after giving birth? Richards, who is known for her portrayals in such films as Blonde and Blonder, Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough, was the former wife of actor Charlie Sheen. On March 2004, she gave birth to their first child. Barely five months later, she did nude pictorials which appeared in a 10-page spread of the Playboy December 2004 issue. She was even labeled by Playboy as “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” and was also the magazine’s cover girl.

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