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Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1966 and his master's degree (1970) and PhD (1974) from the University of Chicago. At the time of the discovery of Lucy, he was an associate professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University .
In the English-speaking world, this important discovery is universally attributed to Donald Johanson". [citation needed] This confusion is because Coppens was the former director of the Hadar expedition. Donald Johanson, who led the 1974 expedition, was the one who found Lucy. [5]
September 10 – The controversial TV movie Born Innocent, starring Linda Blair, airs on NBC. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television.
The Execution of Private Slovik, a made-for-TV film telling the story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion after the American Civil War, airs on NBC. March 18 CBS 's cancellation of Here's Lucy marks the end of the television reign of Lucille Ball , which lasted 23 consecutive years beginning with the ...
This image released by Amazon shows Lucille Ball, left, and Desi Arnaz in a photo from the documentary "Lucy and Desi." (Amazon via AP)
Here's Lucy was not initially offered in syndication when the series ended in 1974 because both I Love Lucy, which was being distributed by Viacom at the time, and The Lucy Show, which was being distributed by Paramount, were still popular in reruns and it was felt that introducing another Lucy series might undermine the success the other two ...
(In Season #1 Episode #30 "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" as Ricky is about to sing, he calls offstage "Mr. Hatch, if you please.") He was the sole composer for three episodes of I Love Lucy (1951–56), four episodes of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1959–60), all 156 episodes of The Lucy Show (1962–68) and all of the Here's Lucy (1968–69 ...