When Tita Hernandez Baca was born in 1922, in Chihuahua, Mexico, her father, Estevan Hernandez Torres, was 44 and her mother, Ausencia Baca Garcia, was 35. She married Ascension Lazos on 11 February 1944, in Matamoros, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 10 May 1988, in Santa Paula, Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 66.
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United States recognizes Obregón government.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Manuel Ávila Camacho presidency. Mexico joins Allies in declaring war on Axis powers. PRM reorganized to provide wider representation and renamed Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional--PRI). Bracero (migrant Mexican worker) agreement established between Mexico and United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Luis, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Mario, Raul, Ramon, Roberto.
Spanish (Hernández): patronymic from the personal name Hernando (see Fernando ). The surname has also been established in southern Italy, mainly in Naples and Palermo, since the period of Spanish dominance there. Hernandez (including in the sense 2 below) is the eleventh most frequent surname in the US. Compare De Hernandez .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some Jewish descendants retained the surname that their families had adopted as Roman Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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