When Elsie Booker was born on 19 February 1899, in Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, Ernest Booker, was 30 and her mother, Ellen Ellis, was 30. She lived in Pulborough, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1939.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
English: occupational name from Middle English bokere, bouker ‘learned man, scholar; scribe’ (Old English bōcere, an agent derivative of bōc ‘book’).
English: variant of Bowker .
Americanized form of German Bucher .
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