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In 1917, the first Spanish and Filipino footballer to play for a European club, Paulino Alcántara Riestra, was selected by the Philippines to represent the country at the Far Eastern Championship Games in Tokyo. He helped them defeat Japan 15–2, which remains the largest win in Philippine international football history.
The Free Philippine Government (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Malayang Pilipinas) was an unofficial provisional government based in Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental, Mindanao which claimed jurisdiction over unoccupied territories in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the World War II era.
The National FFA Organization or FFA is an American nonprofit career and technical student organization, which offers middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education. Future Farmers of Virginia (FFV) was founded in 1925 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute , by agriculture teachers Henry C. Groseclose , [ 9 ] Walter ...
University of the Philippines Diliman: Socio-political fraternity National [g] Pi Sigma Delta: January 26, 1975: University of the Philippines Diliman: Socio-political sorority National [h] Samahang Ilokano: c. 1946: Manila, Philippines: Cultural (Ilocano) National 3 Sigma Delta Phi: February 24, 1931 University of the Philippines Manila ...
The Philippines Free Press has been revived after Marcos was ousted. The magazine was known for featuring the outstanding legislators every year. Only Jose W. Diokno has held the title for four consecutive years, which is the most in the magazine's award giving history. It published its final issue in 2011.
According to World Bank data, the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) quadrupled from $8 billion in 1972 to $32.45 billion in 1980, for an inflation-adjusted average growth rate of 6% per year. [40] Indeed, according to the U.S.-based Heritage Foundation, the Philippines enjoyed its best economic development since 1945 between 1972 and 1980.
Thirty-five years ago, users heard the infamous dial-up sound for the first time. The '80s were a decade defined by major technological innovations, big hair, cult-classic movies and the start of ...
FFA is the heir to the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), founded November 20, 1887. In 1912, a French delegation was present at the conference in Stockholm that founded the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) with 17 national federations.