The Philippines Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
Ramon Santos (National Artist for Music – February 25, 1941) Greetings to National Artist Ramon P. Santos on his 82nd birthday! Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer, conductor, and musicologist, is currently the country’s foremost exponent of contemporary Filipino music. A prime figure in the second generation of Filipino composers in the modern idiom, Santos has contributed … Read more
On this day, March 23, is the birth of National Scientist Encarnacion A. Alzona (1895) and the death of National Scientist Onofre D. Corpuz (2013). The official calendar of the Republic of the Philippines: an almanac of Philippine commemorations enlivened with illustrations and information. –Manila: Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office, [2014]. On this … Read more
On this day, March 21, in 1887, Dr. Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere was printed in Berlin, Germany. The official calendar of the Republic of the Philippines: an almanac of Philippine commemorations enlivened with illustrations and information. –Manila: Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office, [2014]. On this day in 1963, authorities demolished the … Read more
Philippines and Serbia The Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Serbia celebrate 51 years of formal diplomatic relations! The two countries established diplomatic relations on March 1, 1972. Common Ground The first Filipino-born athlete recruited by a pro basketball league in Europe, Jack Animan, played with the Serbian women’s team, Radnicki Kragujevac, in … Read more
On this day, March 20, in 1990, the trial of Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi began in New York on the charge of racketeering under the Thornburgh Doctrine which gives America the right to arrest and try any foreigner it likes. Marcos and Khashoggi were later acquitted. The official calendar of the Republic of the … Read more