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

* Tim Cone, the American head coach of the Alaska Aces in the Philippine Basketball Association

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

* Grand Slam ( PBA ) of the Philippine Basketball Association

* Great Taste Coffee Makers, also known as Presto, a Philippine Basketball Association team

* Metropolitan Basketball Association, a Philippine professional basketball league

* Meralco Bolts, a Philippine Basketball Association team

* Andy Seigle, Professional basketball player for the Philippine Basketball Association, though born in Scranton, is a Carbondale native and the all time leading scorer at Carbondale Area High School.

* Danny Seigle, Professional basketball player for the San Miguel Beermen of the Philippine Basketball Association.

* April 9-Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association played its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.

The city is also a regular venue for the Philippine Basketball Association out-of-town games.

* Philippine Basketball Association All-Star Game ( South All-Stars vs. North All-Stars )

* Joe Devance, Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association who currently plays for the Alaska Aces

* The distinct competitions, currently three, within each season of the Philippine Basketball Association

These arenas served as venues for Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) games in the past.

The Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of ten company-branded franchised teams.

Ms. PBA, Mia Montemayor tosses the ceremonial ball between Mariwasa's Cisco Oliver and Concepcion's Ramon Lucindo during the opening ceremonies of the Philippine Basketball Association in 1975.

The Philippine Basketball Association was founded when nine teams left the now-defunct Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association ( MICAA ), which was tightly controlled by the Basketball Association of the Philippines ( BAP ; now defunct ), the FIBA-recognized national association at the time.

* Abet Guidaben ( 20th century ), former Philippine Basketball Association basketball player

* Tim Cone ( 1978 ), Philippine Basketball Association coach

He played college hoops at the University of the East before joining the Philippine Basketball Association in 1987, where he broke several Philippine and PBA all-time records — including the most points scored in a single game ( 79 points ), the most three-point field goals made in a single game ( 17 triples ; breaking his previous record of 15 triples ), the most three-point field goals in a career ( 1, 242 triples ) and the most consecutive freethrows in a row ( 76 ).

At the same time, he played for several teams in the Philippine Amateur Basketball League while playing for the national team.

* Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives

Every SP has designated seats for ex-officio members, given to the respective local presidents of the Association of Barangay Captains ( ABC ), Philippine Councilors ' League ( PCL ), and Sangguniáng Kabataan ( SK ; " Youth Council ").

* Philippine Support Association, a group that raises credit for the poor

Likewise, it is the first of the only two institutions granted the highest-level accreditation ( Level IV ) by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities ( PAASCU ).

It was granted Level IV accreditation -- the highest possible level — from the Commission on Higher Education ( CHED ) through the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines ( FAAP ) and the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities ( PAASCU ).

" In: The Bulletin of the Philippine Historical Association, No. 5, September.

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

There is also Philippine English, but it is influenced by North American English.

It is also commonly known as ' bullfrog ' in Philippine English.

* 1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg ( also called the Philippine Dynasty ).

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.

Variations include the longer and more pointed iták intended for combat, and it was also used during the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish colonial authorities, later becoming a signature weapon of guerrillas in the Philippine-American War ; the longest variation, called a kampilan, was used by the ancient sultanates of Mindanao.

The Philippine and Algerian teams also left the Games, as did some members of the Dutch and Norwegian teams.

The herb is also widely used in Turkish, Palestinian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Philippine and Latin American cuisines.

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.

The Philippine Trench ( also called the Mindanao Trench ) is a 1, 320-kilometer-long submarine trench found directly east of the Philippine Mobile Belt and is the result of a collision of tectonic plates.

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

Bi-lateral naval exercises were also carried out with exercises with the French, British, Australian, Canadian, Philippine, and United States navies.

These phrases can also be found in the 1973 and 1935 Philippine constitutions.

The Philippines and Vietnam are also monitoring China's expansion into the South China Sea making sure that China is no threat to either Philippine or Vietnamese islands in the South China Sea.

No Vietnam war films followed until Jack Starrett's Nam Angels AKA The Losers ( 1970 ) filmed on Philippine sets left over from Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero ( also 1970 ).

** End of the Iberian Union: João IV of Portugal is acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg ( also called the Philippine Dynasty ).

The Portuguese House of Habsburg ( also called the Philippine Dynasty ) rule lasts until 1640.

There are other versions of the Ramayana, notably Ramavataram in Tamil, the Buddhist ( Dasaratha Jataka No. 461 ) and Jain in India, and also Cambodian, Indonesian, Philippine, Thai, Lao, Burmese and Malay versions of the tale.

In addition, the US timber trade also markets various other Federal Trade Commission-defined species as " mahoganies " under a variety of different commercial names, most notably " Philippine mahogany ", which in reality is actually from the genus Shorea, a dipterocarp.

The 1987 Philippine Constitution also provides for the existence of autonomous regions.

The leading professional organization in the country is the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology which also regulates ophthalmology residency programs and board certification through its accrediting agency, the Philippine Board of Ophthalmology.

Nunchaku are most commonly used in Okinawan kobudō and karate, but it is also used in eskrima ( accurately, the Tabak-Toyok, a similar though distinct Philippine weapon is used, as opposed to the Okinawan nunchaku ), taekwondo and hapkido.