2015 Event Scientists uncover a 2.8-million-year-old jawbone of a primitive human; the find suggests that humans may have evolved from hominins, or humanlike primates, about 400,000 years earlier than previously thought 1984 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 1973 Death Constance Talmadge, U.S. comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75 1860 Birthday Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses, New York, primitive painter, Old Oaken Bucket 1858 Birthday Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist, Mind of Primitive Man
