When Carmen Salita was born about 1921, her father, Mariano Salita, was 53 and her mother, Adela Medina, was 51. She died about 1943, in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, at the age of 24.
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Filipino people approve constitution creating the Philippine Commonwealth with Manuel Quezon y Molina as the first president. The Philippines is promised full independence within 10 years.
Japan attacks the Philippines by air and invades two weeks later.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Alejandrina, Elida, Enrique, Francisco, Guilermo, Juan Jesus, Manuel, Miguel Angel, Pascasio, Porfirio, Rogelio.
Spanish: habitational name from La Salina in Teruel province, or a topographic name from salina ‘saltworks, salt marsh’.
Italian: topographic name from salina ‘saltworks, saltmine’, also ‘arid and lifeless place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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