October 24






OCTOBER 24

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 26, October 24, 1996
On the Cover: Donna Cruz, Aga Muhlach, Donita Rose and Vina Morales

Oktubre 24 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Oktubre 24, 1944, ang Japanese battleship na Musashi Maru, isa sa pinakamalaking barkong pandigma ng mga Hapon noong Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig ay napalubog sa Sibuyan Sea.

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GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

Marilyn Monroe on the cover of vintage Blighty magazine (October 24, 1956).

 

Personalities and celebrities born on October 24:

1853 – Pedro Serrano Laktaw, teacher, writer and lexicographer and author of the Diccionario Hispano-Tagalog (1889) – in Cupang, Bulacan, Bulacan (d. September 22, 1928).

1874 – Rafael Palma, educator, journalist, historian, first editor of El Renacimiento and delegate to the 1934 Constitutional Convention – in Tondo, Manila (d. May 24, 1939).

1880 – Rafael Corpus, lawyer, lawmaker and government official – in San Antonio, Zambales (d. July 21, 1960).

1920 – Rafael Manio Ileto, military officer, ambassador and Secretary of National Defense – San Isidro, Nueva Ecija (d. June 19, 2003).

1927 – Marcelo Briones Fernan, 18th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (July 1, 1988 – December 6, 1991) and Senate President (July 27, 1998 – June 28, 1999) – in Cebu City (d. July 11, 1999).

1956 – Rafael V. Mariano, farmer and politician.

1967 – Juanito Victor Catibayan Remulla Jr, politician – in Manila.

1973 – Pia Guanio-Mago (birth name Liana Pia Coronado Guanio), showbiz newscaster and television host.


Pia Guanio
on the covers of Cosmopolitan Philippines (August 2002),UNO (December 2004-January 2005), 
and Marie Claire Philippines (February 2007).

1974 – Isko Moreno (full name Francisco Moreno Domagoso), actor and politician – in Manila.

1981 – Alfred Vargas (full name Alfredo Paolo Dumlao Vargas III), actor, model and politician – in San Juan City.

 

1984 – Lougee (full name Maria Lourdes Grace Valdivia Basabas), singer, product endorser and vocalist of Delara (formerly Mojofly) – in Alabang, Muntinlupa.



Lougee
on the cover of MOD (September 11, 2006).

 



Linda Ronstadt on the cover of
People Weekly (October 24, 1977).

Picture Trivia

          Do you know which artist dislodged Elvis Presley in the Number 1 spot of Billboard Country Albums Chart in 1977? She was Linda Ronstadt with her album Simple Dreams. It also toppled the long-running Number 1 album of Fleetwood Mac Rumours on Billboard Charts. Included in the album Simple Dreams is Ronstadt’s signature song “Blue Bayou,” which is a certified Platinum.

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July 31



JULY 31

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 25 No. 15, July 31, 2001
On the front cover: Natalia Oreiro
On the back cover: Pia Guanio for the Alaska Milk print ad

Events that happened on July 31:

1889 – Jose Rizal’s article, “Una Profanacion” (A Profanation”), a sharp attack against the friars for refusing to bury Mariano Herbosa in a Catholic cemetery because he was a brother-in-law of Rizal, was published in La Solidaridad.

1946 – Philippine Airline (PAL) became the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific Ocean when a chartered Douglas DC-4 ferried 40 American servicemen to Oakland, California, from Nielson Airport in Makati, with stops in Guam, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, and Honolulu, Hawaii.

1961 – The Association of Southeast Asia (ASA) with Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines as members,was established in Bangkok.

1980 – President Ferdinand Marcos formed the Light Rail Transit Authority for the construction of the first light railway transit (LRT) system in the Philippines.

Personalities and celebrities born on July 31:

1891 – Jose Ma. Nava, Hiligaynon playwright, newspaperman and labor leader – in Iloilo City (d. January 14, 1954).

1997 – Barbie Forteza (full name Barbara Ambas Forteza), actress and commercial model – in Biñan, Laguna.

A symbolic illustration of
“The Test Tube Baby,”
on the cover Time (July 31, 1978),
six days after Louis Joy Brown was
delivered through Caesarean operation
at the Oldham General Hospital.

Picture Trivia

          Louise Joy Brown is known as the world's “first test tube baby.” In reality, however, the baby was not “created” in a test tube as one might think. The method of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), or the fertilization of a woman’s ovum by a spermatozoa, is done in a fluid medium in a petri dish. The fertilized ovum or zygote is returned to the woman’s uterus, the objective of which is to have a successful pregnancy and birth. The IVF was conceptualized by Dr. Patrick Steptoe (1913-1988) and Dr. Robert Edwards (1925-2013). Lesley Brown undertook this procedure on November 10, 1977. After 256 days, on July 25, 1978, a baby girl was born through Caesarean operation and was named Louise Joy Brown.

 

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April 16




April 16

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 25 No. 50, April16, 2002

On the Cover: Tony dela Cruz, Mike Hrabak and Pia Guanio

Events that happened on April 16

1594 – The Cofraternidad de la Santa Misericordia, a charitable institution, was established in Manila.

1837 – The Philippine representation to the Cortes, the Spanish lawmaking body, was abolished.

1902 – General Miguel Malvar surrendered to the Americans.

Personalities and celebrities born on April 16:

1845 – Antonio Ma. Regidor, lawyer, nationalist and founder of the La Asemblea Filipina (Kapulungang Bayan) (d. December 28, 1910).

1876 – Alejandro Roces Sr, “Father of Modern Philippine Journalism” (d. June 1943).

1960 – Ustadz Wahab Akbar, politician and lawmaker – in Lantawan, Basilan (d. November 13, 2007).



Portrait of Janet Gaynor on the cover of

Screen Play (April 1933).

Picture Trivia

          One of the most successful actresses of the silent film era is Janet Gaynor (1906-1984). In 1928, Gaynor was the first to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayals in the films Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). Her success and fame continued to the onset of the talking films, and her performance in A Star is Born (1937) was unforgettable. Gaynor belongs to a rare breed of film artists that succeeded during the film industry’s transformation. For many years, she was the lead actress of Fox Studio: Sunny Side Up (1929), Delicious (1931), Merely Mary Ann (1931), Adorable (1933), State Fair (1933), and The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935), where Henry Fonda was introduced as her leading man.                                      o     O     o