National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: United Nations Plaza

Location: U.N. Avenue, Ermita, Manila

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1951

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

UNITED NATIONS PLAZA

DEDICATED TO THE UNITED NATIONS BY THE CITY OF MANILA. ON INTERNATIONAL DAY, 10 JULY 1951, THE UNITED NATIONS FLAG WAS RAISED HERE BY TWO VETERANS WOUNDED IN THE KOREAN WAR, T/S NICOMEDES GUMACAY AND PFC. MARCELINO CARABALLO, TENTH BATALLION COMBAT TEAM, ASSISTED BY SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CARLOS P. ROMULO, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

United Nations Plaza

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