When Fa’alili Leausa was born on 19 February 1864, in Fagaloa, Palauli, Savai'i, Samoa, his father, Manoa Leausa, was 36 and his mother, Tali Tuiafiso Ula'atoa, was 33. He married Fa'amelea Fata about 1884, in Maasina, Va'a-o-Fonoti, Upolu, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 21 May 1945, in Maasina, Va'a-o-Fonoti, Upolu, Samoa, at the age of 81, and was buried in Maasina, Va'a-o-Fonoti, Upolu, Samoa.
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Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
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.
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