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Bocaue Pagoda Tragedy
The Bocaue Pagoda Tragedy was a fatal accident that occurred on July 2, 1993, during the Bocaue River Festival in Bocaue, Bulacan, in the Philippines. The accident was the result of the festivities' centerpiece – a floating pagoda – sinking, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 people. Background The Bocaue River Festival is an annual celebration held every first Sunday of July in Bocaue in honor of the Holy Cross, the ''Mahal na Poon ng Krus sa Wawa'', established in 1850 in the Bocaue River, a tributary of the Santa Maria River. The festivities involve a decorated pagoda on top of a barge surrounded by small boats accompanying it. A replica of the holy cross is placed at the top of the pagoda. The incident The pagoda for the 1993 celebrations was estimated to be carrying 800 to 1000 devotees. At 8:15 p.m, the accident occurred taking the lives of between 226 and 279 people. The pagoda sank in the middle of the Bocaue River between the barangays of Bunlo and Bambang. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Standard Time
Philippine Standard Time (PST or PhST; fil, Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), is the official name for the time zone used in the Philippines. The country only uses one time zone, at an offset of UTC+08:00, but has used daylight saving time for brief periods in the 20th century. Geographic details Geographically, the Philippines lies and 126°34′ east of the Prime Meridian, and is physically located within the UTC+08:00 time zone. Philippine Standard Time is maintained by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). The Philippines shares the same time zone with China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Western Australia, Brunei, Irkutsk, Central Indonesia, and most of Mongolia. History Philippine Standard Time was instituted through Batas Pambansa Blg. 8 (that defined the metric system), approved on December 2, 1978, and implemented on January 1, 1983. The Philippines is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Arevalo
Robert Ylagan Arevalo (; born May 6, 1938) is a Filipino film and television actor. Personal life Arevalo is the son of Filipino film actor/composer/musician Tito Arevalo; his uncle Angel Esmeralda is the father of the late Jay Ilagan and his uncle Gerardo de León is a national artist and an award winning movie director. He attended some of the best schools in Manila such as Legarda Elementary School, San Beda College and Ateneo de Manila where he took Business Administration. On August 11, 1962, he married Barbara Perez. Selected filmography Film *''The Portrait'' (2017) *''Where I Am King'' (2014) *'' The Healing'' (2012) *''Sagrada Familia'' (2009) *''Dukot'' (2009) *''Sabungero'' (2009) *''Fuchsia'' (2009) *''Gulong'' (2007) *''Paraiso: Tatlong Kwento ng Pag-Asa'' (2007) *''Madame X'' (2000) as Don Justo Florendo *'' Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko...'' (1999) as Alfredo *''Birador'' (1998) as Mario *''Damong Ligaw'' (1997) *'' Tirad Pass: The Last Stand of Gen. Gregorio del Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Bulacan
Bulacan is a province of the Philippines. It was established on 15 August 1578. Prehistory The earliest archeological evidence human habitation in the Philippines archipelago is the 40,000-year-old Tabon Man of Palawan and the Angono Petroglyphs in Rizal. By 1000 B.C. the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago had developed into four distinct kinds of peoples: tribal groups who depended on hunter-gathering and were concentrated in forests; warrior societies who practiced social ranking and ritualized warfare and roamed the plains; the petty plutocracy of the Ifugao Cordillera Highlanders, who occupied the mountain ranges of Luzon; and the harbor principalities of the estuarine civilizations that grew along rivers and seashores while participating in trans-island maritime trade. Around 300–700 C.E. the seafaring peoples of the islands traveling in ''balangays'' began trading with the Indianized kingdoms of Maritime Southeast Asia and nearby East Asian principalities, adopti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Disasters In The Philippines
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The White House (Moscow), Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF Waco siege, besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major 1993 Storm of the Century, snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorism, narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Military Forces of Colombia, Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorism, Islamic terrorists 1993 World Trade Center bombing, detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of List of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
