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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