When Ronald James Evans was born on 12 March 1941, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, James Woodrow Evans, was 23 and his mother, Cora Elaine Willard, was 20. He died on 9 June 1994, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Voters chose a council-manager form of government in Provo.
With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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