28th April 1789 – Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift and the rebel crew returned to Tahiti briefly and then set sail for Pitcairn Island. The incident became known as the Mutiny on the Bounty. 1920 – Azerbaijan was added to the Soviet Union. (I collect stamps and coins, not countries). 1932 […]

The President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, said that schools nationwide must revert to using English as the medium of instruction to make Filipinos globally competitive. “If we really want to compete globally, we have to bring back English as our medium of instruction because that is the language of technology,” Mrs. Arroyo said in […]