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Gavin Menzies had the idea to write his first book after he and his wife Marcella visited the Forbidden City for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Menzies noticed that they kept encountering the year 1421 and, concluding that it must have been an extraordinary year in world history, decided to write a book about everything that happened ...
2000: Angela Perez Baraquio became the first Asian American, first Filipino American, and first teacher ever to have been crowned Miss America. 2001: Elaine Chao was appointed by President George W. Bush as the Secretary of Labor, serving to 2009. She is the first Asian American woman to serve in the Cabinet.
The 1587 event marks the first documented instance of Asians in what is now California, [33] or anywhere in what is now the United States, [4] [34] North America, [35] the Americas. [36] The landing of the first Filipinos at Morro Bay, which occurred 33 years before the events at Plymouth Rock, [b] is often overlooked, even by Filipino ...
1997: Chris Tashima becomes the first Asian-American to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, for Visas and Virtue. 2019: Kazu Hiro becomes the first Asian-American to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for Bombshell. This was his first win following his naturalization.
[1] [2] The first was connected to the period when the Philippines was part of New Spain and later the Spanish East Indies; Filipinos, via the Manila galleons, would migrate to North America. [3] The first permanent settlement of Filipinos in the U.S. is in Louisiana specifically the independent community of Saint Malo.
Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎, January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), also known as John Manjirō (or John Mung), [1] was a Japanese samurai and translator who was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during the opening of Japan.
The report, released Tuesday by the nonprofit Asian American Foundation, surveyed over 6,200 people above the age of 16 across the U.S. on their attitudes toward the Asian American community.
Images from a Harper's Magazine article on "the Lacustrine village" of Saint Malo, Louisiana, where Filipino migrants settled in the 18th century.. The first Asian-origin people known to arrive in North America after the beginning of the European colonization were a group of Filipinos known as "Luzonians" or Luzon Indians.