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Today, Jan. 14, is the 116th birth anniversary of Carlos P. Romulo, the first Asian to become United Nations president. He served as the UN Security Council president four times—in 1980, 1981 and twice in 1957. A National Artist for Literature, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1942 for a series of articles he wrote just before World War II. Romulo died on Dec. 15, 1985 at the age of 87. Marielle Medina, Inquirer Research