When Isaako Masima Tuipelehake was born about 1912, in Salelologa, Samoa, his father, Sifou Saimasina Su'a, was 39 and his mother, Faaeteete Sagitoa Pulumatau Tuioti, was 35. He died in 1970, in his hometown, at the age of 59.
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New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
Jewish: variant of Isaac .
German: from the personal name Isaak, German form of Isaac .
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