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2 unusual facts about Araneta


Araneta

De La Salle Araneta University, Lasallian university in Malabon City, Philippines

Araneta family, prominent Filipino-Spanish family in business, politics and religion


Araneta family

The Araneta Group also holds major stakes in Binibining Pilipinas Beauty Pageant (Binibining Pilipinas Charities Incorporated or BPCI), Taco Bell Philippines and Dairy Queen Philippines.

Gregorio Araneta became the Secretary of Justice of the Philippine Republic on September 26, 1898.

Bea Rose Santiago

She won beating 66 other contestants and became the fifth Filipina to win the title after Gemma Cruz-Araneta in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, Melanie Marquez in 1979 and Lara Quigaman in 2005.

Football in the Philippines

Its third project was to upgrade the pitch in the Rizal Memorial Stadium to an artificial turf from August to September 2012, but it was discontinued because Philippine Football Federation President Mariano Araneta said that conducting the 2012 Philippine Peace Cup in Manila would lessen the expenses of the PFF in the event.

Patricia Bermudez-Hizon

She was a courtside reporter for a game when basketball player Vince Hizon proposed to her on the basketball court of the historic Araneta Colliseum during halftime.

Philippine Malolos Congress elections, 1898

Paterno defeated General Antonio Luna with 24-23 votes; Legarda against Aguedo Velarde with 21-9; and Araneta and Ocampo won with 31 and 27 votes respectively.

Pops Fernandez

In 2008, she performed with other Philippine singer such as Regine Velasquez, Kuh Ledesma, and Zsa Zsa Padilla in the Araneta Coliseum, called Divas 4 Divas.


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