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2,700+ killed and wounded [2] The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on October 25, 1944. It was the only major action in the larger battle in which the Americans were largely unprepared.
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 7 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
Casualties. 11 dead, 615 injured (Mainshock) 139 injured (October aftershock) [3] On July 27, 2022, at 8:43:24 a.m. ( PHT ), an earthquake struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0 M w , with an epicenter in Abra province. [4] [5] Eleven people were reported dead and 615 were injured.
Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections were held on October 25, 2010, in the Philippines. The electorate elected in nonpartisan elections, the Barangay chairman also known as the Punong Barangay and members of the Sangguniang Barangay (Village council) for voters aged 18 and above. While voters aged 15 to 17 voted for the ...
October 25 Establishment of Academia Militar, country's first military training school that lasted for less than a year. [29] November 5 A revolutionary movement under Gen. Aniceto Lacson and Gen. Juan Araneta proclaims the Republic of Negros in Bago town. [28] [29] November 7
Typhoon Molave ( Tagalog: [moˈlavɛ], mo-LAH-veh ), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Quinta, was a strong tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Philippines and Indochina in late October 2020, and became the strongest to strike the South Central Coast of Vietnam since Damrey in 2017. The eighteenth named storm and eighth ...
Typhoon Rita, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kading, was the most powerful tropical cyclone during the 1978 Pacific typhoon season and one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. A long-lived and destructive tropical cyclone, Rita began its journey east of the Marshall Islands and rapidly moved westwards, becoming a typhoon on ...
v. t. e. This list of solar eclipse visible from the Philippines enumerates the solar eclipse that have been and will be seen over the Philippines. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. Eclipses can be total, annular, or partial . A total solar eclipse occurs when the ...