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April 2 – Col. Gregorio Honasan, leader of the August 1987 coup attempt, together with 13 of his guards, escapes from a prison ship in Manila Bay.Eight navy guards who helped him to escape are captured in Manila, Apr. 15.
8 January 1988 Benjamin Cuaresma Jr., Mayor of Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya: New People's Army [79] 17 January 1988 Roy Padilla Sr., Governor of Camarines Norte, and father of action star and Senator Robin Padilla [80] 28 January 1988 Anastacio Malang, Mayor of Arayat, Pampanga: 28 April 1988 Noe Tarrosa, Mayor of Cajidiocan, Romblon: 17 June 1988
In India (and Nepal), a death anniversary is known as shraadh (Shraaddha "श्राद्ध" in Nepali). The first death anniversary is called a barsy, from the word baras, meaning year in Hindi. Shraadh [1] means to give with devotion or to offer one's respect. Shraadh is a ritual for expressing one's respectful feelings for the ancestors ...
Typhoon Ruby, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Unsang, was the strongest typhoon to strike the Philippines in 18 years. The tenth typhoon of the 1988 Pacific typhoon season, Ruby formed from an area of low pressure situated east of the Philippines on October 20. The storm steadily intensified as it moved west, and then west-northwest.
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States ( National Science Foundation Network ) and Europe (Nordunet) as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol ...
Typhoon Skip, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yoning, was the final of three tropical cyclones in 1988 to directly impact the Philippines in a two-week time frame. . Several areas of disturbed weather developed within the monsoon trough around Nove
When a court declared Iwao Hakamata innocent in September, the world's longest-serving death row inmate seemed unable to comprehend, much less savour the moment. "I told him he was acquitted, and ...
The following list are the deadliest storms that impacted the Philippines between 1963 and 1999. This list only includes typhoons that had death tolls exceeding 300. Only two storms exceeded death numbers above 1,000: Thelma (Uring) and Ike (Nitang). The total number of deaths recorded are only from the country itself.