When the Japanese took control of the country, several American special operations groups stationed in the Philippines were introduced to the Filipino Martial Arts and swordsmanship, leading to this style reaching America despite the fact that natives were reluctant to allow outsiders in on their fighting secrets.

) 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.

When the Philippines was granted independence on July 4, 1946 by the American government, the Philippine Congress was established.

When the Japanese invaded the Philippines in 1942, Zamboanga acting Governor Felipe Azcuna moved the capital from Zamboanga City to Dipolog.

When the Spaniards began colonizing the Philippines, they saw an already-developed weapons-based martial arts practiced by the natives.

When Manuel L. Quezon was inaugurated president in 1935, he became the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines.

When a war warning from Gen. George C. Marshall was received in the Philippines on 28 November ( Philippine time ), the next day FEAF began dispatching two B-17s a day on reconnaissance flights of the sea lanes north of Luzon, but with orders not to overfly Japanese territory on Formosa.

When Japanese planes attacked the Philippines on 8 December 1941, the planes were actually spotted by a radar station in Northern Luzon, which immediately alerted the FEAF headquarters at Nielson.

When Emilio Aguinaldo ran for President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935, his opponent Manuel L. Quezón ( the eventual victor ) invoked the memory of Bonifacio against him, the bones being the result of Bonifacio's execution at Aguinaldo's hands.

When Spain colonised the Philippines in the early 17th century, the numerous languages of the Philippines were written in various scripts, such as Baybayin.

When Tōjō spoke on the plan to the House of Peers he was vague about the long-term prospects, but insinuated that the Philippines and Burma might be allowed independence, although vital territories such as Hong Kong would remain under Japanese rule.

When the war between Filipinos and Americans finally began, the fate of the infant Republic of the Philippines again lay in the hands of General Aguinaldo and his most trusted men who included Novo Ecijanos like General Llanera and General Tinio.

When Wilson became governor of New Jersey, he appointed Ford Commissioner of Banking and Insurance ; after Wilson became president, Ford was sent to the Philippines on a special mission, reporting directly to the president, and toward the end of Wilson's presidency Ford was named to a position on the Interstate Commerce Commission.

When the Philippines came under American sovereignty in 1902, 35 municipalities have been founded.

When the Philippines came under American rule following the Spanish-American War, Malacañan Palace became the residence of the American Governor-General.

When the Philippines was under American colonial rule, the legislative body was the Philippine Commission which existed from September 1900 to October 1907.

When Portuguese explorer and conquistador Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in the service of Spain, Zula was one of those who gave tribute to the Spanish king while Lapu-Lapu refused.

When the AFTA agreement was originally signed, ASEAN had six members, namely, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

When the war with the United States began, Sakai participated in the attack on the Philippines as a member of the Tainan Air Group.

When the Spaniards arrived in 1521 and began to colonize the islands of the Philippines in 1565, they introduced the Latin script to the Catholicized Filipinos.

When Pope John Paul II visited the Philippines in 1981, his itinerary included Legazpi City.

When questioned, Kanegasaki told Fuchida that they were not tortured or abused, much to Fuchida's disappointment, then went on to tell him of a young lady, Peggy Covell, who served them with the deepest love and respect, but whose parents, missionaries, had been killed by Japanese soldiers on the island of Panay in the Philippines.

When World War Two broke out, the cable connection from Midway to the Philippines closed quickly after 7 December 1941, and did not reopen until the war was over.

When Ceferino Garcia was asked how he came to develop the wide sweeping uppercut, Garcia said that as a youth he cut sugarcane in the Philippines with a bolo knife, which he would wield in a sweeping uppercut fashion.

When the total number of mandates gained by a party has been determined, they are distributed between the Land lists.

When a small increment of heat is gained by a calorimetric body, with small increments, of its volume, and of its temperature, the increment of heat,, gained by the body of calorimetric material, is given by

When industry groups lobbied to weaken regulation and a backlash against environmental regulations, the so called wise use movement gained importance and influence.

When Libya gained its independence in 1951, veterans of the original Sanusi Army formed the nucleus of the Royal Libyan Army.

When Sinclair gained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in 1934, Heinlein worked actively in the campaign.

The Starfleet Engineering Corps ( also called the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ) is mentioned in several episodes in conjunction with projects such as hollowing out the underground laboratory complex inside the Regula I asteroid in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the design of the Yellowstone-class Runabout in the alternate timeline in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Non Sequitur ", and devising a defense against the Breen energy-dampening weapon in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " When It Rains ..." As a result of these successes, Starfleet engineers have gained a reputation as the undisputed masters of technological adaptation and modification.

When it was destroyed in the first arc of Ultimate X-Men, the computer controlling the base gained self-awareness, and hijacked the genetic experiment project to create an army of nanotech-enhanced, zombie-like thralls.

When East Timor gained independence from Indonesia, Thailand, for the first time in its history, contributed troops to the international peacekeeping effort.

When the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the Turks and Caicos received their own governor ( the last administrator was restyled ).

When the Dukes of Burgundy gained control over the counties of Holland and Zeeland at the beginning of the 15th century, they appointed a stadtholder to rule in their stead with the States of Holland as an advisory council.

* When Dr. Doom gained access to Wakanda's stores of vibranium, T ' Challa activated a fail-safe that rendered all processed vibranium inert.

When Morocco gained its indepence in the 1950s, the country also restated its claims over the still Spanish Western Sahara.

When it was admitted that his private letters had indeed been opened, and its contents revealed by the Foreign Office to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments, Mazzini gained popularity and support among the British liberals, who were outraged by such a blatant intrusion of the government into his private correspondence.

When he was sixteen, his analytical abilities gained the praise of Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Alexis Clairaut ; soon, Condorcet would study under d ' Alembert.

When the Montagnards gained control of the Convention, they wrote their own, the French Constitution of 1793.

When the original version of the film was released on DVD in the USA, it finally gained major critical acclaim, with some critics hailing the film as a masterpiece.

When Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926, his son Jigme Wangchuck became the next ruler, and when India gained independence in 1947, the new Indian Government recognized Bhutan as an independent country.

When the Nazis gained power over the town his name was on a list of local gay men ordered to the police station.

When it is added, that the quantity of grain gained from the superior powers of the machine is fully equal to a twentieth part of the crop, and that, in some cases, the expense of thrashing and cleaning the grain is considerably less than what was formerly paid for cleaning it alone, the immense saving arising from the invention will at once be seen.

When he acceded as King, he gained the royal arms undifferenced.

When the Congo gained independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and the Congo Crisis began, Kabila was a " deputy commander " in the Jeunesses Balubakat, the youth wing of the Patrice Lumumba-aligned General Association of the Baluba People of Katanga ( Balubakat ), actively fighting the secessionist forces of Moise Tshombe.

When Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as President in 1829, Georgia gained a strong ally in Washington.

When Joseph Stalin came to power these gains were reversed bit by bit until homosexuality along with other freedoms gained by women were effectively made illegal again by the bureaucratic regime.

When East Timor gained its independence on 20 May 2002, Tetum and Portuguese were declared as official languages.