November 2



NOVEMBER 2

Mars Ravelo’s Lastikman Komiks Magasin Taon 1 Blg. 6, Nobyembre 2, 1995

Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang post-Ravelo Lastikman kalaban ang Babaeng-Apoy na si Pyrona,

na isinulat ni Rey N. Mamangun at iginuhit ni Rod Manuel.

 

Nobyembre 2 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Nobyembre 2, 1762, itinalaga ng British East India Company si Dawsonne Drake bilang kauna-unahan at nag-iisang British governor-general sa Pilipinas.

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GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

Heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey (1895-1983),
together with his wife, actress Estelle Taylor (1891-1958),
on the cover of vintage magazine Pic (November 1927).

Personalities and celebrities born on November 2:


1965 – Arnold Clavio, newscaster, television host and broadcast journalist.

Arnold Clavio (with Mickey Ferriols)
on the cover of Mr. & Ms. (May 30, 2000).



1970 – Ely Buendia (full name Eleandre Basiño Buendia), singer-songwriter, guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock band Eraserheads – in Naga City.



Ely Buendia
on the cover of Metro Society (December 2010).

  

Bebe Buell on the cover of
Oui (November 1983).

Picture Trivia

          Do you know who Bebe Buell is and her relationship with Steven and Liv Tyler? Her full name is Beverle Lorence Buell, a fashion model, singer and Playboy magazine “Playmate of the Month” (November 1974). Buell had a romantic relationship with Steven Tyler, and Liv Tyler is their daughter.                                     o     O     o

May 30

 

MAY 30 


Mr. & Ms. Vol. 34 No. 4, May 30, 2000
On the front cover: Arnold Clavio and Mickey Ferriols
On the back cover: Sharon Cuneta for the Alaska Milk print ad.

 

Events that happened on May 30:

1902 – The first group of American teachers arrived at Cebu.

1964 – Filipino writer and labor leader Amado V. Hernandez was acquitted by the Supreme Court in a landmark case (complex crime of rebellion with murder, arson and robbery)  in Philippine jurisprudence that lasted more than 13 years.

Personalities and celebrities born on May 30:

1892 – Fernando Cueto Amorsolo, portraitist, landscape painter and first National Artist (1972) of the Philippines – in Calle Herran, Paco, Manila (d. April 24, 1972).

The only self-portrait done by National Artist Fernando Amorsolo.

Given to First Lady Imelda R. Marcos as a token of appreciation

for her role in the creation of the National Artist Award

by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, but went missing after the

1986 EDSA Revolt when Malacañang was ransacked.

Amorsolo was the first recipient of the National Artist Award.

 

1932 – Jose Armando R. Melo, jurist and public official – in Manila.

1970 – Manuel Luis “Manolo” Casas Quezon III, writer, blogger and televivion host.

1973 – John Rodney Santos, basketball player – in Meycauayan City, Bulacan.

1989 – Demitrius Irving Tolentino Omphroy, Amrican-born Filipino footballer – in Alameda, California.



Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud) on the cover
of People weekly May 30, 1983 issue.

Picture Trivia

Do you know what Mr. T’s real name. During his early career, writers would put his name as Lawrence Tero, but his real name is Lawrence Tureaud. We remembered him as the muscle of the A-Team, B. A. Baracus, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III, and as Hulk Hogan’s friend and tag-team partner in Wrestlemania I.

One interesting trivia: Mr. T’s unusual hairstyle came about after he saw a Mandinka warrior belonging to an ethnic tribe in West Africa while reading an issue of National Geographic. He decided to adopt their unusual hairstyle as a powerful statement of his African origin. He would occasionally sleep with the heavy gold chains on his neck to see how his ancestor as a slave felt. But after helping out in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina in 2005, he stopped wearing virtually all his gold. He said, “As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property...I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold. I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”