According to Forbes Magazine, the list below are the Top 10 richest Filipino’s for 2010 : 1) Henry Sy; US$5 billion 2) Lucio Tan; $2.1 billion 3) John Gokongwei Jr.; $1.5 billion 4) Jaime Zobel de Ayala; $1.4 billion 5) Andrew Tan; $1.2 billion 6) Tony Tan Caktiong; $980 million 7) Enrique Razon Jr.; $975 [...]
On July 9, 1985, Arturo P. Alcaraz, a volcanologist and acknowledged “father of geothermal energy” won the IBM Science and Technology Award. Alcaraz, who earned his Masters of Science degree in Geology at the University of Wisconsin in the United States as a government scholar, pioneered in generating electricity by means of geothermal steam among [...]
On July 8, 1987, as official representative of the Vatican to the Millenary of the Russian Orthodox Church, his Eminence, Jaime Cardinal Sin became the first Catholic prelate to visit Lithuania since the 1917 Russian Revolution. Born on August 31, 1928 in Aklan, Cardinal Sin, Archbishop emeritus of Manila, attended the 600th anniversary celebration of [...]
On July 7, 1892, a group of Filipino patriots led by Andres Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata, Ladislao Diwa, Valentin Diaz and Deodato Arellano, among others, formally founded in Tondo, Manila the Katipunan, an anti-Spanish society with the goal of gaining Philippine independence. It had three principal aims: political, moral and civic. The political aim was to [...]
On July 2, 1971, the first Pan American World Airway’s Boeing 747 jumbo jet arrived at the then Manila International Airport with 269 passengers. Pan American World Airways was the second airline to open a regular jumbo route to the Philippines with 20 hours flying time between San Francisco and Manila. Also on this same [...]
President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III recently announced the new Philippine Cabinet Secretaries. The list below is the official Philippines cabinet members : Executive Secretary – Paquito “Jojo” Ochoa Jr. Department of Foreign Affairs – Alberto Romulo Department of Agriculture – Proceso Alcala Department of Budget and Management – Florencio “Butch” Abad Department of Education – [...]
On this day, June 30, 2010, Senator Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Cojuangco Aquino III is inaugurated as the 15th President of the Philippines at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park, Manila. He was elected in the country’s first automated polls on May 10, 2010. As mandated by the 1987 Constitution, the new president is be to [...]
On June 29, 1626, Juan Niño de Tabora, the Spanish general and colonial official, served as governor general of the Philippines until his death on July 22, 1632. Notably, De Tabora brought the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary known as Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje (Our Lady of Peace and Good [...]
On June 28, 2008, then 29-year-old Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao made world history by becoming the first Filipino, and first Asian, to hold four concurrent world boxing championship belts in four different boxing weight divisions, by defeating Mexican David Diaz at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Born on December 17, 1978 in [...]
On June 27, 1974, Filipino Chess Master Eugene Torre became Asia’s first grandmaster by drawing with American Grandmaster Robert Byrne at the Nice World Chess Olympics. Born on November 4, 1951 in Iloilo City, Torre had been considered the best chess player the Philippines produced during the period spanning the 1980s through 1990s. The former [...]
