March 29

 

MARCH 29

Espesyal Komiks Blg. 283, Marso 29, 1965
Nasa taklob-pahina ang nobelang-komiks na “Ang Dambuhala ng Sariaya” ni Deo Villegas
na iginuhit ni Abe Ocampo.

 

Events that happened on March 29

1521 – Magellan and Datu Kolambu entered into a blood compact.

1887 – The Noli Me Tangere (Latin for “Touch Me Not”), Jose Rizal’s first novel came off the press.

1942 – The Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (HUKBALAHAP) was established in Nueva Ecija with Luis Taruc as supremo.

1969 – The New People’s Army (NPA) was established in Tarlac by Jose Maria Sison and Bernabe Buscano. It was initially composed of former members of the Hukbong Magpapalaya ng Bayan (HMB) and recruited youth and student activist. It later became the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

1988 – High-ranking leaders of the NPA, Romulo Kintanar, Rafael Baylosis, Benjamin de Vera, Maria-Gloria Jopson Asuncion and Mario Asuncion were captured.

1994 – The Philippines’ first link to the Internet was opened at the first International E-mail Conference in Cebu City.

Personalities and celebrities born on March 29:

1911 – Tito Arevalo (real name Eustacio Ylagan), actor and musician - in Tondo, Manila (d, December 4, 2000).

1984 – Mark Callano Paragua, chess grandmaster (the first Fiiipino grandmaster to obtain a recorded ELO rating of over 2600 (January 2006) – in Marilao, Bulacan.



Stef Prescott on the cover
of Gadgets magazine April 2011 issue

1991 – Stef Prescott (full name Stefanie Marisa Quintos Prescott), actress and model – in Seattle, Washington.

Ang “Ukala” ni Alfredo Alcala

Ang “Ukala” ni Alfredo Alcala sa taklob-pahina
ng Pilipino Komiks Blg. 126, Marso 29, 1952.

          Ang “Ukala (Ang Walang Suko)” ay nobelang-komiks na isinulat at iginuhit ni Alfredo Alcala para sa Pilipino Komiks (1952-1953). Ukala ang pangalan ng pangunahing karakter ng nobela na isang katutubong American Indian noong panahon ng pananakop ng mga Europeans sa Central America. Si Ukala ay “walang suko” (Paunawa: ang pakahulugan ng salitang “suko” rito ay “katapat,” “tayog” o “sukdulan”) na nagpapahiwatig na ang kaniyang tapang at galing ay “walang katapat.”

          Isina-pelikula ito sa titulong Ukala (Ang Walang Takot) ng Sampaguita Pictures sa ilalim ng direksiyon ni Artemio B. Tecson at itinanghal sa Center Theater noong Mayo 22-31, 1954. Itinampok si Cesar Ramirez bilang Ukala. Katambal niya si Alicia Vergel bilang ang kaniyang kapanalig at katipan.

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Jane Fonda as Barbarella
on the cover of Life (March 29, 1968).

Picture Trivia

          The French science-fiction comic book, Barbarella, was originally conceptualized by Jean-Claude Forest for V-Magazine in 1962. Later on, Barbarella was published into a comic book by Eric Losfeld.

          The character Barbarella is a woman who has many adventures, mostly sexual, in her travels in space. The story around Barbarella is a rare mixture of science fiction and erotica.

          Do you know that in 1968, it was made into a film starring Jane Fonda as Barbarella? The film had English and French versions. In the French version, it was Fonda herself who said her lines in French.

          In the said film, Barbarella made a striptease in zero gravity, whereupon viewers could almost see Fonda naked. Kylie Minogue also used the iconography of Barbarella, and the zero-gravity striptease scene was duplicated in her award-winning video for the song “Put Yourself in My Place” (1994).                              o     O     o

February 22

 

FEBRUARY 22

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 28 No. 44, February 22, 2005

On the cover: Kelly Misa

 

GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

The Kessler Twins, Alice and Ellen

on the cover of Life (February 22, 1963)

 

Events that happened on February 22

1942 – U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) ordered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines as American defenses collapsed.

1945 – Luis Taruc, Cato Alejandrino and other Huk leaders were arrested by the U.S. counter-intelligence group for espousing communist beliefs.

1986 – Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and AFP Vice Chief of Staff Fidel V. Ramos, mutinied against Pres. Ferdinand Marcos that led to the EDSA Revolt.

 

Personalities and celebrities born on February 22:

1847 – Pedro Cui, philanthropist and founder of the Hospicio de San Jose in Guibuangan, Barili, Cebu – in Cebu. (d. June 5, 1926)

1898 – Lazaro Francisco, Tagalog novelist, short story writer, and founder of the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad sa Wikang Pilipino (KAWIKA) – in Orani, Bataan. (d. June 17, 1980)

1927 – Florencio Campomanes, political scientist, chess player and tournament organizer, and FIDE president (1982-1995) – in Manila. (d. May 3, 2010)

1971 – Lea Salonga (full name Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga), singer, actress and first Asian to sing in the Broadway musical Les Miserables – in Angeles City, Pampanga.

Lea Salonga
on the covers of the Mr. & Ms. (December 19, 2000) and MOD (June 2013).



Henry Fonda and his Daughter Jane of the cover
of Life (February 22, 1960

Picture Trivia

          Do you know that Henry Fonda (1905-1982) and his daughter Jane, both excellent and renowned Hollywood actors, had appeared together in only one film? This is On Golden Pond (1980), under the direction of Mark Rydell from the story written by Ernest Thompson, where they also portrayed father and daughter. It was in this film that Henry Fonda won his only Academy Best Actor Award (although many critics agree that he should have won in earlier films. He is on record the oldest person to win the Academy Best Actor Award. It was also in this film that Katharine Hepburn won her fourth Academy Best Actress Award.

          Jane fonda, on the other hand, won two Academy Best Actress Award ahead of his father: In 1971 for the film Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home.

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