When Hawley Mapuilesua Auvaa was born on 3 January 1951, in Motootua, Samoa, his father, Dr. Auva’a Toto’a Lesatele, was 46 and his mother, Salaevalu Posenai Tuisamoa, was 31. He died on 26 January 2007, in Samoa, at the age of 56.
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Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
Western Samoa changes its name to Samoa, a move which causes some tension with American Samoa.
King Malietoa Tanumafili II dies aged 94, after 45 years on the throne. He was appointed king for life at independence in 1962. He was the world's third-longest reigning monarch, after King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
Transferred use of the surname, which derives from a place name, probably Hailey in Oxfordshire, which was originally named from Old English hēg ‘hay’ + lēah ‘clearing’. Use as a given name began in the 1960s, inspired perhaps by the actress Hayley Mills ( b. 1946 ), daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell , and enjoyed great popularity until the late 1990s.
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