December 30

DECEMBER 30

TV Times, December 30, 1979 – January 5, 1980
On the cover: Charlie’s Angels (4th season) Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd and Shelley Hack

Disyembre 30 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Disyembre 30, 1896, 7:03 ng umaga, binaril ang pambansang bayani ng Pilipinas na si Gat Jose Rizal sa Bagumbayan (ngayon ay Rizal Park).

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Onli in da Philippines

          Ilan sa mga ipinagdiriwang na araw sa Pilipinas ay mga araw ng kasawian, katulad ng araw ng kamatayan ng mga bayani (Rizal Day – December 30) at mga araw ng pagkatalo sa digmaan (Fall of Manila – January 2, at Fall of Bataan – April 9).

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SULYAP SA NAKARAAN

Hiwaga Komik Taon 17, Blg 414, Disyembre 30, 1967
Tampok sa full-spread na taklob-pahina ang “Bath-Man and Rodin” ni Ramon R. Marcelino
na iginuhit ni Ernie Chan, at ang pagbati ng “B’wenas na New Year sa Lahat!”

 

Personalities and celebrities born on December 30:

1875 – Honorio Lopez, newspaperman, revolutionary leader, archiver and publisher – in Santa Cruz, Manila (d. July 3, 1958).

1937 –Zaldy Zshornack (full name Jose Rizaldy Taduran Zshornack), Filipino-German actor – in Manila (d. November 18, 2002).

1938 – Rizalino S. Navarro, businessman, politician and government official – in Caloocan  (d. July 7, 2011).

1958 – Lav Diaz (full name Lavrente Indico Diaz), writer, director and producer – in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao.

1977 – Jimmy Alapag (full name Jim Olmedo Alapag), basketball player and PBA-MVP (2010-2011) – in Los Angeles, California.


1987 – Jake Cuenca (full name Juan Carlos Leveriza Cuenca), football player, actor and model – in San Jose, California.

Jake Cuenca
on the cover of Men’s Health Philippines (June 2010).





Dr. David Ho (“Man of the Year”),
on the cover of Time (December 30, 1996).

Picture Trivia

          Dr. David Ho is a renowned Chinese-American pioneering AIDS researcher. For three decades, Dr. Ho was in the forefront of research on the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). His group was among the first in the attempt to formulate an AIDS vaccine.
          Do you know that in the 1970s when Dr. Ho was still an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology, he frequently played and won at blackjack. He was barely 20 years old when he went to the Las Vegas casinos and sit on the blackjack table. Owing to his mathematical prowess and fast memory, he was able to count and predict the cards. Later, he was no longer allowed to play in the casinos
 
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November 9



NOVEMBER 9

Pilipino Komiks Taon 20 Blg. 500 Nobyembre 9, 1967

Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang kuwentong “Dirty Politician... Sumpain Ka”

 nina R. R. Marcelino at Ernie de Chan

Nobyembre 9 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Nobyembre 9, 1994, natukoy ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang 15 lugar sa loob at sa kapaligiran ng dating U.S. naval base sa Subic, Zambales na kontaminado ng mga nakalalasong basura na iniwan ng U.S. military.

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Personalities and celebrities born on November 9:

1826 – Teodora Alonzo Realonda, college-bred housewife and mother of Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal, in Manila (d. August 16, 1911).

1855 – Mariano Llanera, revolutionary general – in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija (d.September 19, 1942).

1861 – Teodoro Yangco, businessman, philanthropist and pioneer of YMCA Philippines – in San Antonio, Zambales (d. April 20, 1939).

1912 – Teodoro A. Agoncillo, historian, college professor and National Scientist – in Lemery, Batangas (d. January 14, 1985).


1968 – Janice de Belen (full name Catherine Janice Yap de Belen), actress and television host – in Quezon City.

Janice de Belen
on the covers of TV Times (December 23-29, 1979) and Miscellaneous Weekly (December 1, 1987).

 

1980 – Vanessa Joy Lachey (birth name Vanessa Bercero Minnillo), American-Filipino television host, actress and model – in Clark Air Base, Pampanga.

Vanessa Minnillo
on the covers of Maxim (October 2006) and Shape (April 2007).

Diana Ross on the cover of
Blues & Soul (November 9-22, 1993)

Picture Trivia

          Diana (Ernestine Earle) Ross started her road to fame as the lead singer of the group The Supremes (1959-1970), before going solo. In 1972, she portrayed the American jazz singer Billie Holiday (real name Eleonora Harris, 1915-1959) in the film Lady Sings the Blues, where she won the Golden Globe Award. She became “Female Entertainer of the Century” in 1976.
          In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records cited her as the “most successful female artist in history” for having 70 hit singles in her career as a singer. Ross is among the rare breed of entertainers who were given two “stars” in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as a member of The Supremes and as a solo artist.  

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