* 1987 – History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4, 000 people ( 1, 749 official ).

Before and during World War II, when Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, the Philippines, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire.

The machine became known popularly in the Philippines as Minus-One ( named after the subtracted vocal channel when turned down ).

The Philippines does not have a distinctive war flag in this usual sense, but the flag of the Philippines is legally unique in that it is flown with the red stripe on top when the country is in a state of war, rather than the conventional blue.

* The flag of the Philippines is the only flag which may be hoisted upside-down when the Filipino Congress has declared the nation to be in a " state of war ".

Oregano is also used by chefs in the southern Philippines to eliminate the odor of carabao or water buffalo when boiling it, while simultaneously imparting flavor.

* 1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.

During World War II, Allied powers were cut off from their supply of quinine when the Germans conquered the Netherlands and the Japanese controlled the Philippines and Indonesia.

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

And also Philippines has network wars in which the fans of the 2 major networks defend their favorite channel, or when the 2 major networks produce similar and rival programming, and example of this, is when an ABS-CBN fan tells an insult on GMA ( usually being called cheap ), and a GMA fan would answer and make another insult ( usually the answer is that ABS-CBN is mayabang, arrogant in English ), and an exchange of insults would occur, usually on social networking sites, especially Facebook.

The Spanish presence lasted until 1663, when the settlers and military were moved back to the Philippines.

The traditions were imported when the Philippines were governed out of Mexico City as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

The government of the Philippines uses the term " region " ( in Filipino, rehiyon ) when it's necessary to group provinces, the primary administrative subdivision of the country.

In 1868, when Isabella II was deposed as Queen of Spain, Leopold tried to take advantage in his plan to acquire the Philippines.

This was revised in September 12, 1942, when Guadalupe became the secondary " Patroness of the Philippines " when Pope Pius XII installed the Immaculate Conception as the Principal Patroness of the Filipino people through the Papal Bull Impositi Nobis, though her feast day is still widely celebrated in the archipelago.

Originally written as incidental music, it did not have words when it was adopted as the national anthem of the Philippines and subsequently played during the proclamation of Philippine independence on June 12, 1898.

: Australia, Botswana, British West Indies, Brunei, Canada ( English-speaking ), Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea ( both North and South ), Lebanon, Luxembourg ( uses both marks officially ), Macau ( in Chinese and English text ), Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland ( when the amount is in Swiss francs ), Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States ( including insular areas ), Zimbabwe.

He came back to Menudo to complete a tour in Brazil, their 1987 Summer in the Streets tour after Robby Rosa quit the group to introduce new member Ruben Gomez and for their last tour in the Philippines when Ralphy Rodriguez was pulled out of the group by his parents late that year.

He continued through the time when Menudo had the number 1 hit Indianapolis and when Menudo started making it to the covers of Tiger Beat and other major teen magazines, and also when Menudo became famous in the Philippines and Japan.

* 2001-New Tribes Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham are kidnapped in the Philippines by Muslim terrorist group ; Baptist missionary Roni Bowers and her infant daughter are killed when a Peruvian Air Force jet fires on their small float-plane.

* Cariñosa the unofficial national dance of the Philippines replacing Tinikling

* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.

* G-Force ( dance group ), a dance group in the Philippines associated with ASAP 2012

Leyte Island is the birthplace of the Tinikling dance, which is very popular throughout the Philippines.

Still saturated with the sounds of 1930s and 1940s Shanghai singing stars and the ideals they represented, the time also reminded him of the wide array of vibrant dance music floating in over the Pacific from the Philippines, Hawaii, Latin America and the United States, which Wong had used as a backdrop in Days of Being Wild.

In the Philippines, the mazurka is a popular form of traditional dance.

Tinikling, the Philippines ' national dance is folkdance that originated from the region.

Besides being invited to standout performance venues like New York's prestigious Palace Theater ( 1916 ), Denishawn was the first American company to present " serious Western dance " in Japan, Burma, China, India, Ceylon, Java, Malaya and the Philippines ( 1925-26 ) ( Sherman, Enduring Influence 77 ).

In the Philippines, which was a Spanish colony for 333 years, the fandango lives on in the folk dance called Pandanggo sa Ilaw ( Fandango of Lights ).

****" Thriller " ( viral video ), a 2007 video featuring prison inmates in Cebu, Philippines recreating the dance from Michael Jackson's music video

They met in March at a dance in Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines.

It is reported that the dance came from Kuy people but it is more believed that the birth place is Philippines during the regn of King Norodom ( 1834-1904 ) when he was traveling in Philippines.

In September 1941, after a failed marriage, Phillips ' traveled with her daughter to Manila in the Philippines in hopes of joining a dance revue.

Star Dance: Search for the Dance Idols is a reality dance TV show in the Philippines last 2004 over ABS-CBN.

Rubber Inc. is a pioneer of intelligent dance music ( IDM ) in the Philippines.

Seven of the Daisies ) was a long-running daily afternoon drama series top billed by the SexBomb Girls, an all-girl singing dance group in the Philippines.

Another instrumental, " Cebu " ( named after an island in the Philippines ), later became a staple in the Quiet storm format.

* Commonwealth of the Philippines — formed in 1934, and became independent in 1946.

In 2009, SkyCable became the first cable TV service provider in the Philippines to broadcast the UAAP Games in HDTV via the new SkyHD Cable TV service.

Once Christianity was established, the Catholic Church became the focal point for village activities and Guam became a regular port-of-call for the Spanish galleons that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Philippines.

The FB became the first Holden that was adapted for left-hand-drive markets, enhancing its export potential, and as such was exported to New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Philippines and Hawaii.

These years saw rapid growth in Malaysian cities, particularly Kuala Lumpur, which became a magnet for immigration both from rural Malaya and from poorer neighbours such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines.

Tobacco mixed with opium was called madak ( or madat ) and became popular throughout China and its seafaring trade partners ( such as Taiwan, Java and the Philippines ) in the seventeenth century.

Thus, the issue of the inheritance of the Spanish kingdoms — which included not only Spain, but also dominions in Italy, the Low Countries, the Philippines and the Americas — became contentious.

It became the first university in Mindanao, and the first Jesuit institution, among those existing in the Philippines, even first before its sister school Ateneo de Manila to be given university status.

During the Spanish Colonial period, in May 20, 1865, a royal order from Queen Isabella II gave the Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas the power to direct and supervise all the educational institutions in the Philippines and thus, the Rector of the University became the ex-officio head of the secondary and higher education in the Philippines.

On July 4, 1946, the Philippines became an independent country.

This telenovela became a success in Latin America, Spain, Croatia, Italy, France, Israel, Russia, China and the Philippines.

After she won the title, she became an instant superstar in the Philippines.

She became a celebrity in the Philippines and lived in the country for five years.

) she also became part of the Music Variety Show ASAP ( variety show ) When it first aired in 1994 as a Host for 5 years as she came in and out of town in 1997 – 1998 as she came in and out of town in 2007, she visited the Philippines but could not perform due to the fact of schedule conflicts.

Aguinaldo became the Philippines ' first President.

For the next 256 years, the Philippines became a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and was administered as a Spanish colony.

Between December 24, 1941 and February 19, 1942, Corregidor became the temporary location for the Government of the Philippines.

Headquarters Armed Forces of the Philippines became known as " General Headquarters, Armed Forces of the Philippines "; while General Headquarters, Philippine Constabulary became known as " Headquarters, Philippine Constabulary ", the nomenclature it had in the prewar years.