This week’s milestones: March 8 to March 14

March 10, 2001 A plebiscite was held which duly ratified and approved the cityhood of Tanauan, Batangas by virtue of Republic Act No. 9005, signed on February 2, 2001 by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. It was originally founded as a town in 1572 by Augustinian missionaries near the lake of what was then called