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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August 2



AUGUST 2

MOD Filipina Vol. 23 No. 1039, August 2, 1991
On the Cover: Patricia Heslet

 

Agosto 2 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Ang Monte de Piedad ay itinatag ng paring Franciscan na si Felix Huertas noong Agosto 2, 1882.

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          Isang malakas na lindol (7.3-Magnitude), na ang epicenter ay sa Casiguran, Quezon, ang tumama sa Luzon 4:19 ng madaling-araw noong Agosto 2, 1968. Ito ay nasundan ng malakas na aftershock (5.9-Magnitude). Ang Ruby Tower sa Manila ay bumagsak dahil umano sa palpak na disenyo at sub-standard na materyales. Humigit-kumulang 270 ang namatay ay halos 300 ang nasugatan.

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Personalities and celebrities born on August 2:

1799 – Mariano Guard Gomez, secular priest, martyr (Gomburza) – in Sta. Cruz, Manila (d. February 17, 1872).

1888 – Angel Arguelles, first Filipino director of the Bureau of Science (later known as the National Institute of Science and Technology) – in Batangas, Batangas (d. July 10, 1952).

1923 – Pedro B. Escuro, agronomist, geneticist and National Scientist – Nabua, Camarines Sur – (September 8, 2000).

1974 – Ron Josol (full name Ronald Allan Josol), Filipino-Canadian stand-up comedian – in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1975 – Alma Concepcion (full name Alma Louise Concepcion), 1994 Miss Philippines-International and film actress – in Marikina.

Alma Concepcion
on the cover of Men’s Edge (April 1995).

1980 – Dingdong Dantes (real name Jose Sixto Raphael Gonzalez Dantes III), actor and model – in Quezon City.

Dingdong Dantes

on the covers of S Magazine (July 2008) and Men’s Health (December 2009).

 

Picture Trivia 

Rumanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci
on the covers of Sports Illustrated and Time, both August 2, 1976 issues.

          Rumanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first to be awarded a “perfect 10” in Olympic gymnastics. She garnered it first in the uneven bars event (team competition) in the Montreal Olympics on July 18, 1976. She was 14 years old.
          Do you know that the Montreal Olympics gymnastic scoreboard does not have the facility to register four numbers – 10.00. This is because, even at the start, the Olympic organizers said it is “impossible” to have a perfect 10 score. In the competition, the score that registered for Comaneci was 1.00, which initially confused the audience. But when it was made known that Comaneci garnered a perfect 10, thunderous applause followed. Comaneci garnered six more perfect score in the succeeding events.

          Comaneci is also the youngest Olympic gymnast all-around champion. This record will remained forever on the books, because in the current Olympic gymnastic regulation, participants should be at least 16-year-old before they are allowed to compete.

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