The Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, with music and dances that depict the many facets of Filipino culture, opens its 60-city U.S. tour in San Francisco ( through Sept. 24 ) then, via one-night stands, moves on to Los Angeles ( Sept. 29 thru Oct. 1 ).

* Associated Broadcasting Company, a Philippine television company.

There were 1, 400 km of narrow-gauge track, owned by either the Manila Railroad Company ( based in Luzon ) or the Philippine Railway Company ( an American company based in Panay and Cebu ).

Some have a commercial purpose, such as the Philippine National Oil Company, while others like the Government Service Insurance System ( GSIS ), or the Philippine Institute for Development Studies fulfill more traditional government roles.

The Philippine National Oil Company geothermal plant supplies electricity to Kidapawan and its neighboring provinces, its completion boosted the city's economy.

He helped organize the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and served as its Executive Vice President and General Manager.

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The Manila Rail Company was given a new charter under Republic Act No. 4156, and the company changed its name to Philippine National Railways.

Ormoc is also the gateway to the Leyte Industrial Development Estate in the nearby town of Isabel, home of the Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Plant, the largest fertilizer factory in Asia, and the Philippine Associated Smelter and Refining Company, the country's biggest copper processing plant, among other industries.

In 2006, San Miguel has sold its 65 % stake at its Coca-Cola Philippine venture ( including its subsidiaries Cosmos Bottling and Philippine Beverage Partners ) to The Coca-Cola Company ( TCCC ) for $ 590 million.

The most recent study of Mount Pinatubo prior to the activities of 1991 was the overall geological study in 1983 and 1984 made by F. G. Delfin for the Philippine National Oil Company as part of the surface investigations of the area prior to the exploratory drilling and well testing for geothermal sources in 1988 to 1990.

The López family also owned the Iloilo-Negros Air Express Company ( the first Filipino owned air service ), the Iloilo Times ( El Tiempo ), the Manila Chronicle and ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, LSC ( Lopez Sugar Corporation ), Bayantel ( including Bayan DSL ), SkyCable ( including SkyBroadband ), Meralco ,, RLC ( Rockwell Land Corporation ), Rockwell Center, First Balfour, Inc., Philippine Electric Corporation ( Philec ), First Electro Dynamics Corporation ( Fedcor ), First Sumiden Circuits, Inc. ( FSCI ), Securities Transfer Services, Inc. ( STSI ), The Medical City ( TMC ), BayanTrade DotCom, First Gas Holdings Corporation ( Santa Rita ), FGP.

Corp. ( San Lorenzo ), FG Hydro Power Corporation ( Pantabangan-Masiway ), FG Bukidnon ( Agusan mini-hydro ), Bauang Private Power Corporation ( Bauang ), Panay Electric Company ( PECO ), First Philippine Industrial Corporation ( the major fuel distributor of Shell and Chevron Caltex in the country ), First Philippine Realty Corp, First Philippine Electric Corp. ( First Philec ),, First Philec Solar Corporation, First Sumiden Circuits, Inc. ( FSCI ), First Sumiden Realty, Inc, First Philippine Industrial Park

* Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company ( PLDT )

* Jose M. Artiaga, Jr., Philippine Army – First Lieutenant Artiaga, a platoon leader with the Tank Company, 10th Battalion Combat Team, Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea, was killed in action during the Battle of Yultong Bridge.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

In Philippine cuisine, it is used to make the jelly bars in the various gulaman refreshments or desserts such as sago gulaman ( aka gulaman at sago ), buko pandan, agar flan, halo-halo, the various Filipino fruit salads, black gulaman, and red gulaman.

; Supreme Bishop: Is the leader or primate of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente ( Philippine Independent Church ), known informally as Aglipayans.

* Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas or Bapor ng Republika ng Pilipinas ( English: Ship of the Republic of the Philippines ), the prefix of Philippine Navy ship names

* Eevee ( band ), a Philippine band formed in 2004

* Freestyle ( Philippine band ), an alternative-jazz band from the Philippines

* Jewel Mische ( born 1990 ), Philippine / American actress, winner of StarStruck

* Manolito Tolentino Mayo ( 1955 – 1983 ), Philippine artist

Other notable oceanic trenches include Monterey Canyon, in the eastern Pacific, the Tonga Trench in the southwest at 10, 882 m ( 35, 702 ft ), the Philippine Trench, the Puerto Rico Trench at 8, 605 m ( 28, 232 ft ), the Romanche Trench at 7, 760 m ( 24, 450 ft ), Fram Basin in the Arctic Ocean at 4, 665 m ( 15, 305 ft ), the Java Trench at 7450 m ( 24, 442 ft ), and the South Sandwich Trench at 7, 235 m ( 23, 737 ft ).

Methodist and Wesleyan traditions in the Philippines are shared by three of the largest mainline Protestant churches in the country – The United Methodist Church, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas ( IEMELIF ) ( Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands ), and The United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

There are also the IEMELIF Reform Movement ( IRM ), The Wesleyan ( Pilgrim Holiness ) Church of the Philippines, the Philippine Bible Methodist Church, Inc., the Pentecostal Free Methodist Church, Inc., the Fundamental Christian Methodist Church, The Reformed Methodist Church, Inc., The Methodist Church of the Living Bread, Inc., and the Wesley Evangelical Methodist Church & Mission, Inc.

The rain forests also offer prime habitat for more than 500 species of birds, including the Philippine eagle ( or monkey-eating eagle ), some 800 species of orchids, and some 8, 500 species of flowering plants.

Other Christian denominations include the Philippine Independent Church ( more commonly called the Aglipayan Church ), Iglesia ni Cristo ( one of a number of separate Churches of Christ generally not affiliated with one another ), and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormon ).

In the late 20th century, the Philippine government made separate attempts to transfer some squatters to low-cost housing projects, including projects in Tondo ( in the former Smokey Mountain landfill ), Taguig ( BLISS Housing Project ), and Rodriguez ( formerly Montalban ), Rizal.

In a boundary running the length of the island and continuing southwards in the Luzon Volcanic Arc ( including Green Island and Orchid Island ), the Eurasian Plate is sliding under the Philippine Sea Plate.

It is the first language of the Philippine region IV ( CALABARZON and MIMAROPA ), of Bulacan and of Metro Manila.

* Malaya ( Philippine newspaper ), after the Tagalog word meaning " free " or " freedom ".

* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

* 2009 – The first of four days of bombings takes place on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.

* 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established ; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.

* 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila ( from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.

President Bush's speech on October 18, 2003 was only the second U. S. Presidential address to the Philippine Congress ; U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the first.

As part of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, Philippine Army General Jaime de los Santos became the first commander of troops responsible for maintaining order in East Timor.

He was also the first Pope to bestow the Immaculate Conception as Patroness to the Philippine Islands on 9 February 1579.

** Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice ( d. 2006 )

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

** Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.

Taco Bell opened its first Philippine branch on October 30, 2004 at the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City.

La Scala produced the opera for the first time on 30 March 1873, with Campanini as Lohengrin, Gabrielle Krauss as Elsa, Philippine von Edelsberg as Ortrud, Victor Maurel as Friedrich, and Gian Pietro Milesi as Heinrich.

Philippine English employs a rhotic accent that originated from the time when it was first introduced by the Americans during the colonization period to replace Spanish as the dominant language used in politics.

During the Philippine Revolution the Province of Manila was the last of the eight provinces to first revolt against Spain in 1896, paving the establishment of the Philippine Republic ( composed of Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, Laguna, Batangas, Cavite and Manila ).

Upon its discovery, the Philippine Eagle was first called the monkey-eating eagle because of reports from natives of Bonga, Samar, where the species was first discovered, that it preyed exclusively on monkeys ; from these reports it gained its generic name, from the Greek pithecus (" ape or monkey ") and phagus (" eater of ").

The diminishing numbers of the Philippine Eagle were first brought to international attention in 1965 by the noted Filipino ornithologist, Dioscoro S. Rabor, and the director of the Parks and Wildlife Office, Jesus A. Alvarez.

In 1992, the first Philippine Eagles were born in captivity through artificial insemination ; however, it was not until 1999 that the first naturally bred eaglet hatched.

The Philippine Eagle Foundation has successfully bred Philippine Eagles in captivity for over a decade and conducted the first experimental release of a captive-bred eagle to the wild.