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Typhoon Lingling, also known in the Philippines as Typhoon Liwayway, was a powerful typhoon that hit the Philippines, China, and Korea in 2019. It was also the strongest to strike North Korea. Lingling caused agriculture damage to Japan and the Korean Peninsula, causing several million USD in damage. Overall, Lingling caused $300 million (2019 ...
September 3–4, 2019: Typhoon Lingling (Liwayway) enhances the southwest monsoon which brought heavy rainfall throughout most of the country. September 30, 2019: Typhoon Mitag (Onyok) nears the country without making landfall, but produces moderate to heavy shows over Cagayan and Batanes.
The Philippines leaves with a 0–5 record, the country's worst performance since the 1978 edition. September 3, Athletics – Pole vaulter Ernest John "EJ" Obiena becomes the first Filipino to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after surpassing the 5.80-meter qualifying standard in an athletics meet in Chiara, Italy.
Yamashita surrender day. President Rodrigo Duterte declared September 3 of every year a special working public holiday in the whole Philippines commemoration of the surrender of Japanese military forces led by Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita at the end of World War II. Republic Act 11216, which makes the holiday official. [1]
22 September: Seven people died and 220 were injured when a PNR commuter train collided with another commuter train between Sucat station and Alabang station in Muntinlupa. According to the PNR, a coupler on the first train apparently failed, sending its three-passenger coaches rolling backward about one mile before it hit the other train.
Same-sex marriage. Falcis III v. Civil Registrar-General, 861 Phil. 388 (2019), was a case which arose out of a petition filed by Filipino lawyer Jesus Falcis III before the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The Court promulgated its ruling on September 3, 2019. The high court was asked about the constitutionality of the provision of the Family ...
2019 Philippines Beechcraft King Air crash. / 14.1760056°N 121.19278°E / 14.1760056; 121.19278. On September 1, 2019, a Beechcraft King Air 350 crashed into a tourist resort in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines while performing a medevac flight from Dipolog to Manila. [3] All nine occupants aboard were killed in the crash.
The Philippines does not legally recognize same-sex unions, either in the form of marriage or civil unions. The Family Code of the Philippines defines only recognizes marriages between "a man and a woman". [1] The 1987 Constitution itself does not mention the legality of same-sex unions or has explicit restrictions on marriage that would bare ...