1992 in the Philippines

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1992 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1992.

Incumbents

• President: Corazon Aquino (PDP-Laban) (until June 30), Fidel V. Ramos (Lakas) (starting June 30)
• Vice President: Salvador Laurel (UNIDO) (until June 30), Joseph Estrada (NPC) (starting June 30)
• Senate President: Neptali Gonzales
• House Speaker: Ramon Mitra, Jr.
• Chief Justice: Andres Narvasa
• Philippine Congress: 8th Congress of the Philippines (until unknown), 9th Congress of the Philippines (starting July 27)

Events

• January 15 – Pag-asa was hatched in Davao City becoming the first Philippine eagle to be successfully bred and hatched in captivity.
• May 25 – As part of PepsiCo's local promotion titled Number Fever, it was announced that the person who possessed the Pepsi bottle cap with the Number 349 scandal is eligible to claim the 1 million peso prize. About 800,000 were eligible for the prize instead of an intended single winner. Several protests and bombings followed after Pepsi refused to award the 1 million prize to thousands of bottle cap holders and said that a computer glitch caused the incident. Protests and bombings followed and about 22,000 people filed at least 689 civil suits and 5,200 criminal complaints for fraud and deception against Pepsi outnumbering suits filed against Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Marcos.^[1]
• May 11 – Synchronized national and local elections were held.
• June 30 – Former Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos and Former Senator Joseph Estrada and was sworn in as the 12th President and 11th Vice President of The Philippines, succeeding Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel.
• August 24–29 – The team representing the Zamboanga City Little League won the International Championship of the 1992 Little League World Series held in Pennsylvania. However, it was discovered that the Filipino team violated age and residency rules and Little League stripped them of their title.

Television

• February 21 - Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC 5) resumed its radio-television operations with their slogans for station ID "Come Home to ABC" until the last day of July and "Catch Up with Today TV" in the first day of August.
• May 30 - The first launched of Southern Broadcasting Network local UHF TV station in Metro Manila starting 1992. It was then known as World TV 21. (now Solar Television Network as ETC).

Films

• 18th Metro Manila Film Festival
• Boy Recto
• Bakit Labis Kitang Mahal
• Engkanto
• Takbo Talon Tili!
• Shake, Rattle & Roll IV
• Manila Boy
• Okey Ka Fairy Ko!

Sports

• March 20-28 – Pasig and Manila hosts the 1992 ISF Men's World Championship which was participated by 18 nations.
• July 25-August 9 – The Philippines competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 26 competitors, 24 men and 2 women, took part in 29 events in 9 sports.^[2] Stephen Fernandez and Beatriz Lucero won a bronze medal each in taekwondo, but their medals were not included in the official medal tally because taekwondo was only a demonstration event.

Births

• January 2 - Alden Richards, actor
• January 8 - Pamu Pamorada, actress
• January 20 – Mark Hartmann, football player
• February 4 - Francis Casey Alcantara, tennis player
• March 30 - Enrique Gil, actor
• April 10 - Marion Aunor, singer and recording artist
• April 11 - Nesthy Petecio, boxer
• April 28 – Dennis Villanueva, football player
• May 6 – Manuel Ott, football player
• May 8 - Vickie Rushton, actress, beauty pageant and model
• May 9 - Jiro Manio, actor
• May 10 -
  • Charice Pempengco, singer and actress
  • Zia Marquez, actress
• June 4 - Kiko Estrada, actor
• June 4 - Roxanne Montealegre, actress and sports reporter
• June 30 - Alfred Labatos, actor
• July 9 - Jake Vargas, actor and singer
• July 27 - Mark L. Cruz, basketball player
• August 3 - Aljon Mariano, athlete
• August 4 - Neil Coleta, actor
• August 7 - Jeric Gonzales, actor
• August 28 - Max Collins, actress
• September 1 - Louise delos Reyes, actress
• September 2 - Michele Gumabao, beach and indoor volleyball player
• September 9 - Frencheska Farr, singer, model and actress
• September 20 - Erich Gonzales, actress
• September 24 - Coleen Garcia, actress
• September 27 - Alex Castro, actor
• October 17 - Sam Concepcion, singer, dancer, actor, host and model
• November 1- Paulo Garcia, singer, actor, model and host
• November 22 - Yen Santos, actress
• December 3 - Jessy Mendiola, actress
• December 16 - Miho Nishida, actress

Deaths

• February 9 - Apeng Daldal, 63, actor, comedian, vaudevillian, singer and writer (born October 12, 1928)
• February 14 - Helen Vela, 46, actress, broadcaster (born October 31, 1946)
• February 17 - Jay Ilagan, 38, actor (born March 6, 1953)
• March 9 - Isidro Rodriguez, 76, 18th Governor of Rizal and softball sports official (born 1919/1920)
• March 22 - Joe Cantada, 50, TV host, anchor and commentator (born March 15, 1942)
• May 28 - Lorenzo Tañada, 93, First Philippine Senate (born August 10, 1898)
• December 2 - Jaime de la Rosa, 71, pre-war and postwar actor (born September 18, 1921)

References

1. Drogin, Bob (26 July 1993). "Pepsi-Cola Uncaps A Lottery Nightmare -- Bombings, Threats Follow Contest With Too Many Winners". Los Angeles Times. Seattle Times Company. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
2. "Philippines at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-26.