2015 Event Giant panda Mei Xiang gives birth to twin cubs at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C.; the cubs appear healthy but will alternate between an incubator and nursing time with their mother 2013 Event An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, causes 15 deaths and major damage to nearby buildings, residences, a nursing home and middle school 1980 Event Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157 1948 Event 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps 1941 Birthday June Clark, British Professor of Nursing, Middlesex U 1936 Birthday Trevor Clay, General-Secretary, Royal College of Nursing 1934 Birthday Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health 1931 Birthday Joan Clague, director of nursing services, Marie Curie Foundation 1923 Birthday Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir, Army Nursing Services 1922 Birthday Phyllis Friend, chief nursing officer, DHSS 1921 Birthday B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service 1920 Birthday Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC 1910 Birthday Margot Turner, matron-in-chief, Army Nursing Service 1909 Event 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota 1861 Event 1st U.S. nursing school chartered
