When Mary Jolene Humphreys was born on 25 February 1944, in Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Raymond Aldwin Humphreys, was 25 and her mother, Anna Dot Williams, was 22. She married John Raymond Atkin in 1983, in Elko, Nevada, United States. She died on 13 February 2011, in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Uranium mining in Utah has a history going back more than 100 years but, it started as a byproduct of vanadium mining. With the development of Nuclear Weapons, Utah saw a uranium boom in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but uranium mining declined near the end of the Cold War. Currently Uranium is still being mined but just a small amount for power plants and for research.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This confrontation was the closest that the Cold War became a nuclear war.
English and Welsh: variant of Humphries .
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