Timeline: Philippine Standout Events (2006-2007)

This Timeline: Philippine Standout Events (2006-2007) is a chronology of dates documented by Philippine media outlets that includes disasters, accidents, deaths and illnesses.

• April 12, 2006 - Philippine Chief Justice's wife Atty. Luzviminda Delgado-Puno's died of heart surgery, at St. Luke's Medical Center, Quezon City.

• August 5, 2006 – Lirio "Lily" Bautista Victorino died of most painful cancer death (wife of Judicial and Bar Council Member Justice Raoul Victorino)

• June 17, 2006 - The father of Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr., Hilario P. Davide Sr., died, after suffering lingering illnesses (Jose, a lawyer-engineer, and Jorge, a doctor in soil, died in 2004 and 2002, respectively)

• November 11, 2006 – James Bersamin, Provincial Board of Abra, cousin of Congressman LUIS Bersamin was shot dead by two men

• December 16, 2006 – Congressman Luis Bersamin, brother of Philippine Court of Appeals Justice Lucas Bersamin was murdered (shot twice in the head) as he left the wedding at a Quezon City church

• December 26, 2006 - A 7.1 magnitude Taiwan earthquake caused a "fiber break" in major submarine cables linking Philippines to international network resulting to major nationwide disruption in Internet and telephone services, local telecommunications company (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, Smart Communications and Bayantel, inter alia).PLDT Chair Tonyboy Cojuanco (husband of actress Gretchen Barretto) suffered throat cancer surgery.
• January 10, 2007 – Atty. Emily Reyes (co-founder of sorority Lex Athenia, Ateneo de Manila University, died of 2 years battle with cancer

• January 15, 2007 – Judge Benjamin Antonio, Br. 170, RTC, Malabon forcibly retired due to permanent total disability

• January 16, 2007 – Supreme Court of the Philippines logo was halved by the 45-minute fire that burned its session hall

• February 5, 2007 – Angioplasty operation of Philippine paranormal expert Jaime Licauco, nemesis of James Randi

• February, 2007 – Both Philippines Supreme Court & Court of Appeals mourned on same day, Sunday, the twin deaths (first since 1901, 1936) of S.C. Justice Vicente Ericta and CA Justice Roberto Barrios

• March 3, 2007 – Gregorio Gaite, father of Dep. Exec. Sec. for Legal Affairs, Manny Gaite, died of lingering illness

• March 9, 2007 – Judge Rosa Reyes, Br. 74, RTC, Malabon died after 2 years battle with lung cancer

• March 11, 2007 – Commission on Elections (Philippines) old building and logo burned by fire

• March 17, 2007 – S.C. Justice Antonio Martinez died due to kidney failure

• April 9, 2007 – First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo's surgery for aortic aneurysm

• April 14, 2007 – Judge Crispin Bravo’s (Manila Trial Court Branch 16) two sons Lakas Diwa, 28, and Sumilang, 27, were badly beaten (baseball bat, wood, and steel pipes) by [...] addicts

• April 25– 2007 – Narcisa Puno, mother of C.J. Reynato Puno died of heart disease.

• May 25, 2007 - Edwin Ermita, son of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita lost to Vice-Governor Mark Leviste.

• June 16, 2007 – Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. was operated spinal surgery (spinal stenosis - pinched lumbar nerves), while his son Aquilino Pimentel III suffered defeat to Sen. Miguel Zubiri

• July 16, 2007 – Historical Manila Hotel S.C. Summit on Extrajudicial Killings

• July 25, 20067– 14th Judge killed (since 1999): Orlando Velasco of the Bayawan City Regional Trial Court, Negros Oriental

• July 26, 2007 – Court of Appeals’ 4th floor was burned, 5th alarm

• August 8, 2007 - 3 days battle between government forces and Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu, Mindanao, Philippines resulted in 57 combatants killed and 42 others wounded.

• August 8, 2007 – Gabriel Claudio underwent surgery for scoliosis and compressed nerves operation (severe back pain is congenital); his predecessor Secretary Jose “Joey” Rufino succumbed to multiple organ failure in 2006 while former Labor Secretary Blas Ople died of a heart attack in 2003; 2 former executive secretaries of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo underwent serious bypass operations: Renato de Villa and Alberto Romulo; former Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin underwent a kidney operation; National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales had a low sugar level while Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye has a slipped disc.

• August 3, 2007 – Muntinlupa City Hall - Metropolitan Trial Court was burned

• August 3, 2007 – DOJ Secretary Raul Gonzalez (Philippines) vomitted blood, rushed to hospital, battled with bleeding from ulcer; he had a kidney transplant on September 14, 2007 His Iloilo Mayor Jerry Trenas was sued the Ombudsman regarding the coal plant trip by the Taiwan company

• On September 18, 2007, defeated sanatorial candidate Aquilino Pimentel III charged Commission on Elections Chair Benjamin Abalos of orchestrating the alleged May 2007 elections frauds, and the latter's controversial national broadband network project was his “karma.” Like Koko Pimentel, former senators Vicente Sotto III, Tessie Aquino-Oreta and Sonia Roco, widow of former senator Raul Roco miserably lost in the Philippine general election, 2007

• September 24, 2007 - the P 10 million bribery controversy involving S.C. Associate Justice Consuelo Ynares-Santiago

• September 28, 2007 - Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago apologizesd for saying China invented corruption reasoning and admitting that she suffered Anorexia (symptom) and the decreased sensation of appetite.

• September 28, 2007 - Lawyer Maria Tecson, 40, was found dead (in a state of rigor mortis) inside room 204 at the Richmond Hotel, San Miguel Avenue, Pasig City (with her throat slit and with cuts on her wrist). Maria Jeanette Tecson, Zoilo Velez (promoted to Court of Appeals Justice) and Victorino Fornier filed the disqualification case against 2004 Presidential candidate Fernando Poe, Jr.. She claimed Poe was born out of wedlock and that while Poe's birth certificate was dated 1939, his parents Allan Poe and American mother Bessie Kelly did not marry until 1940.

• September 30, 2007 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was rushed to Asian Hospital and Medical Center (AHMC) in Alabang for emergency ultrasound due to bleeding in the organs located in the pelvic area. Arroyo was attended by her Ob-Gyn, Dr. Lopez. Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza, chief of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), confirmed Mrs Arroyo’s check-in at the hospital and she left past 10 p.m. Arroyo had been hospitalized 3 times.

• October 1, 2007 - Benjamin Abalos, Philippine Commission on Elections Chair resigned amid bribe issues

• October 19 2007 - 2007 Glorietta explosion happened at the Glorietta 2 , Glorietta, Ayala Center , Makati, Metropolitan Manila, Philippines on 19 October 2007. Initial reports stated that LPG tank exploded in an in-mall restaurant. As of October 21, 2007, the National Disaster Coordinating Council's reported casualties: 11 dead, 3 missing and 112 injured. On November 22, 2007 the Philippine National Police found that the explosion was caused by gas, and not a bomb.

• October 26, 2007 – Vindication, amnesty and release from detention of Joseph Estrada

• November 8, 2007 - Former DSWD Secretary Dulce Saguisag died while her husband Senator Rene Saguisag (lead counsel of President Joseph Estrada) suffered very serious accident, brain clot and 7 broken ribs.After a month, or on December 8, 2007, Senator Rene Saguisag was released from the hospital, freed from tubes, but “still needs assistance by a hired a private nurse". He lost lots of weight. He was out of the ICU on November 28, or 20 days from the fatalistic accident.Their youngest daughter 16-year old gymnast Kaissa Saguisag's knee injury ended her quest for gold at the 24th Southeast Asian Games .

• November 9, 2007 - Commission on Elections legal division chief Dalaig was gunned

• November 13, 2007 – Batasang Pambansa bombing - 6 died and Cong. Pryde Henry Teves' face was badly burned. After 35 days or on December 18, 2007, Negros Oriental Rep. Pryde Henry Teves was moved out of the intensive care unit of St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City to a private room thereat, and recuperated from destroyed eardrum, fractured leg and sustained deep burns in his arms from the Batasang Pambansa bombing.

• November 18, 2007 – Former justice chief Sedfrey Ordoñez, 86, suffered stroke and died (former justice secretary and ambassador to the United Nations and managing partner of Jovito Salonga

• November 29, 2007 - Manila Peninsula rebellion, where former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Jr. et al were incarcerated

• December 25, 2007, Abra Representative Cecilia Luna was brought to a safehouse after she survived an attack when a homemade bomb exploded and hit her family's compound in Barangay (village) Dangdangla Bangued, Abra, hurting 7 residents, including Luna's 3 sons: Lagayan Mayor Jendricks Luna, 36; Dangdangla barangay captain Ryan Luna, 30, president of the Association of Barangay Captains in Bangued suffered second degree burns; and Cromuel Luna, 35 -- (all rushed to P.V. Seares Hospital).

• December 28, 2007 - 5 officers of the Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration, Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Riyadh were injured, due to road accident: in critical condition was Leonardo Eugenio, Jr. at King Khalid Military Hospital in Hafr Al Batin; Taif Dumado, Jimmy Umag, Mario Agustin Menerio and Rene Literal.

• On December 31, 2007, due to typhoon "Reming" (international code name: Durian which ravaged the Bicol region) 10,683 displaced families still without permanent resettlement in Albay alone; the Philippine National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) officially listed 232,968 totally damaged houses in Bicol, 114,394, in Albay.

2006-2007 WikiPedia List of assassinated people (Philippines)

WikiPedia List of assassinated people (This is an list of persons who were assassinated; that is, important people who were murdered, usually for ideological or political reasons) in the Philippines for 2006-2007 includes:

• Amir bin Muhammad Baraguir, (2006), Sultan of Maguindanao
• Renato Marasigan, (2006), Pasig police chief
• Fernando U. Batul, (2006), DYPR broadcast journalist/commentator, former Puerto Princesa City, Palawan vice-mayor
• Noli Capulong, (2006), Bayan Muna activist and pastor
• Sotero Llamas, (2006), former Rebel Leader, activist and former governatorial candidate of Albay
• Delfinito Albano, (2006), Ilagan,Isabela Mayor
• Pablo Glean, (2006), Makati business manager and bodyguard of Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay
• Alberto Ramento, (2006), bishop of Independent Church
• James Bersamin, (2006), Board Member of the 2nd District of Abra
• Luis Bersamin, (2006), Congressman of Abra
• Federico Delgado, (2007), Citadel officer, businessman
• Julia Campbell, (2007), Freelance journalist and U.S. Peace Corps volunteer
• Jomel Bocalbos, (2007), Makati deputy chief of police (killed by robbers)
• Alioden Dalaig, (2007), Law Department Chief and Director of COMELEC
• Joseph Del Rosario, (2007), COMELEC Officer from Cavite
• Wahab Akbar, (2007), Representative form Basilan
• On December 31, 2007, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) paid tribute to 171 journalists killed in 2007. Citing data published by International Federation of Journalists: Iraq was number one, with 65 deaths; in the Philippines, 6 journalists killed on 2007 were Hernani Pastolero (Sultan Kudarat), Carmelito Palacios (Nueva Ecija), Dodie Nunez (Cavite), Geruncio "Oscar" Mondejar (Mandaue), Vicente Sumalpong (Tawi-Tawi) and Fernando "Batman" Lintuan (Davao City); 54 journalists were murdered under the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In 2006, INSI stated that the Philippines was the 2nd most dangerous country for journalists, next to Iraq, listing 15 work-related journalists murdered.

See also

Examples

• See the list of timelines for Wikipedia chronologies.
• WikiTimeScale, interactive wiki with graphically displayed chronology of historic events

Other

• Manila Peninsula rebellion
• Hello Garci scandal
• 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines
• Timeline of Philippine history
• Order (sort)
• New Chronology
• Rizal Day bombings
• 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing
• The Glorietta Blast, a Special Microsite for the Tragedy in Glorietta - from the Philippine Daily Inquirer
• abs-cbnnews.com, Initial photos in Makati blast
• youtube.com/results, “makati blast simulation”
• Ongoing armed conflicts: Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines

External links

• A Timeline of Timelines
• A historical animated timeline creation tool
• World History Timelines
• WikiTimeScale, Wiki for graphical illustration of historic events, persons and so on.
• Timelines for the World Project, Wiki for compilation and analysis of historical events, people, and their cause-effect relationships.
• Inquirer.net, top 10 Most Read Stories, Columns on INQUIRER.net in 2007
• philstar.com/index.php, Yearender: Blasts, Pen siege test PNP leadership: Three major controversies*
• [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/topstories/topstories/view/20071226-108868/Top_10_Most_Emailed_Stories_in_2007_on_INQUIRERnet, Inquirer.net, Top 10 Most Emailed Stories in 2007]
• newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines, Trillanes caper tops INQUIRER.net most read stories