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On this date in...
1933: Mayon Volcano erupted without warning sending a plume of gritty ash three miles high and tons of boulders down onto farmers. Pyroclastic flows killed 77 people, mainly farmers, 19 were injured and 24 were missing.
1970: eSPALEKLEK FRATERNITY was founded, University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB). A group of intelligent, inclined to music, sports-minded, fun-loving, academically excellent, good looking young men, who found a need to formalize their barkada, hence, the espaleklek.
On this date in...
1903: Imperialist American Civil Governor William Howard Taft opposes the return of Filipino revolutionary leader-on-exile Apolinario Mabini unless he takes the oath of allegiance to the United States; Mabini swears fealty in order to return to the Philippines some two months before his death.
1911: The Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines formally approved the establishment of the College of Law. The College, however, traces its beginnings to the law courses opened in 1910 by the Educational Department Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), through the efforts of George A. Malcolm who was later to become the first permanent dean of the College.
NGAYON SA KASAYSAYAN NG PILIPINAS
(TODAY IN HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES)because history is the key to the future...
