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unusual facts about Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City



1975 in the Philippines

October 1 – The Thrilla in Manila was the third and final famous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier for the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World, fought at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila.

2009 PBA All-Star Weekend

This year's all-star game will be totally different from the past All-Star games, as this year's event will have 3 all-star games in different cities, particularly: Victorias, Negros Occidental (April 22), Panabo, Davao del Norte (April 24), and Quezon City (April 26).

2009 World Cup of Pool

For the first time, it was held outside Europe, at The Annex of SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines, from September 1 to 6, 2009, and that an all-female duo participated.

Ahron Villena

Villena attends the Trinity University of Asia School in Quezon City with fellow actors Megan Young, Alfred Navarro, Che Tolentino, Charles Christianson, Kontin Roque, Sugar Mercado, Sophia Montecarlo, Erich Gonzales, Alvin Aragon, Eslove Briones, Shey Bustamante, Joe Vargas and Marco Aytona.

Bernadette Sembrano

Sembrano graduated elementary and high school from Angelicum School (now Angelicum College), a private Catholic school in Quezon City, Philippines.

Betty Go-Belmonte LRT Station

The station is located in New Manila in Quezon City and is named after Betty Go-Belmonte, the late wife of House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. and the founder of The Philippine Star.

Blumentritt Road

It runs through the border of the City of Manila with Quezon City and Caloocan from Rizal Avenue in Santa Cruz district to Gregorio Tuazon Street (formerly Calle Balic Balic) in Sampaloc district.

Community Tax Certificate

The cédula would play an important role in the Philippine Revolution, when Andrés Bonifacio and fellow members of the Katipunan tore up their residence certificates in defiance of Spanish rule during a meeting in Balintawak (present-day Quezon City).

Dell International Services

Dell International Services is the support and services division of Dell Inc., the large American computer hardware company, with operations in India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh), Europe (Bratislava, Bucharest, Dalian), Latin America (Panama City, Brazil, San Salvador), Africa (Morocco), Canada (Edmonton) and the Philippines, (Quezon City).

Evelyn May Guinid

An interior designer and teacher by profession, Guinid graduated from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.

Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City

Broadway Centrum, where noontime show Eat Bulaga & P.O.5 is being held, is also located within the vicinity.

However Much Love

Stay Alive was launched on November 22, 2011 at Patio Carlitos, White House, Quezon City.

James N. Rowe

At around 7:00 in the morning of April 21, 1989, as he was being driven to work at the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group headquarters in an armoured limousine, Colonel Rowe's vehicle was hit by gunfire from a .45 caliber pistol and an M16 rifle near a corner of Tomas Morato Street and Timog Avenue in Quezon City.

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

The bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally meaning great houses made of stone) which have stone foundations on the first floor and are made of wood on the second floor(constructed thus to withstand earthquakes), were transplanted from Manila (Tondo, Binondo and Quiapo), Quezon City, Pampanga, La Union, the Ilocos and Cagayan

Philippine College of Commerce and Business Administration

This was the decade when UE expanded in land area, acquiring a 5 hectare land in Caloocan and another 1.5 hectare land in Quezon City.

Philippines at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Pedro Sollique, paraw fisherman from Virac, Catanduanes was SKUD helm while crew Cherry Pinpin, a creative director from Quezon City trimmed sails and flew the spinnaker.

Pryde Henry Teves

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.

Psyche Resus

On May 4, 2010, Resus and her court joined forces with the EcoWaste Coalition in a public event held in Quezon City, Philippines to promote simple yet creative 3Rs (repurpose, reuse, recycle) solutions to avert a potential garbage crisis after the Philippine national election on May 10, 2010.

Rail transport in the Philippines

MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said that there has been a proposal to build a subway system from the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig to an area near a shopping mall in Quezon City.

Raphael Matthew Chua

Shortly after the SEA Games, Chua retired from his 12-year swimming career, when he made a final decision to finish his engineering course at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City.

Ronjay Enrile

Ronjay R. Enrile (born August 20, 1982 in Quezon City) is a Filipino professional basketball player currently working as a team ambassador for the Powerade Tigers in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Roosevelt College Quirino

Roosevelt College Quirino is a defunct college founded in 1953 in Quezon City, Philippines.

Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore

Other locations include the walled city, Intramuros; a bar in Marikina; a rooftop near Roxas Boulevard; a slum in Cambridge Street; and a vacant lot in Quezon City.

Samson Road

Samson Road is named for Apolonio Samson, a Katipunan barrio lieutenant from Sitio Kangkong, Balintawak, Caloocan (now Quezon City) who fought alongside Andres Bonifacio during the Philippine Revolution.

SM City Sta. Mesa

It was initially named SM Centerpoint as it is located very near the tripoint of the City of Manila, Quezon City and what was then the municipality of San Juan.


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