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January 2
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1916 Eleanor Lambertsen born |
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January 5
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1926 Mary Eliza Mahoney died |
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January 6
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1869 Helen Scott Hay born in Lanark, IL |
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January 7
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1975 ANA held formal ceremonies to honor 1st certified nurses |
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January 9
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1928 Sophie Mannerheim, ICN president 1922-1925, died |
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January 10
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1894 1st meeting of Society of Superintendents of Training Schools in NYC |
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January 12
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1870 Ada Thoms born in Richmond VA |
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January 14
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1878 Isabel Stewart born in Fletcher ONT |
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January 18
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1918 Helen Fairchild died |
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January 20
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1863 Hannah Ropes died |
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January 21
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2004 Mildred Montag died |
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January 23
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1902 Lucile Petry Leone born in Lewisburg, OH |
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January 27
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1955 ANF established |
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February 2
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1901 The Nurse Corps (female) became permanent |
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February 5
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1871 Mary Gardner born in Newton MA |
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February 6
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1866 Annie W Goodrich born in New Brunswick NJ |
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February 15
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1904 Ohio Nurses Assoc. formed |
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February 16
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1881 Mary Breckinridge born in Memphis TN |
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February 17
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1943 First class of Army flight nurses graduated |
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February 18
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1945 Nurse POWs awarded Bronze Star |
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February 19
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1902 Agnes Ohlson born in New Britain CT |
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February 25
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1858 Lavinia Dock born in Harrisburg PA |
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February 26
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1890 Mabel Keaton Staupers born in Barbados |
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February 27
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1857 Clara Weeks Shaw born in Sanborton NH |
| It was on a rainy day in March of 1893 that Miss Wald experienced a "baptism by fire" on the lower east side which inspired the beginnings of public health nursing. | |
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March 1
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1887 Congress established a Hospital Corps |
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March 2
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1885 Bertha Harmer born in Port Hope ONT |
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March 3
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1903 NC passed 1st nurse registration law in US |
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March 4
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1904 Maryland passed its nurse registration law |
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March 6
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1886 1st nursing journal published, The Nightingale |
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March 10
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1867 Lillian Wald born in Cincinnati OH |
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March 11
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1912 Jane Delano named chair of Am. Red Cross Nsg. Serv. |
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March 12
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1858 Jane Delano born in Townsend NY |
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March 13
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1874 Alice Louise Florence Fitzgerald born in Florence, Italy. |
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March 14
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1851 Anna Caroline Maxwell born in Bristol, NY |
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March 15
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1901 Dita H. Kinney appointed 1st Supt. of ANC |
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March 17
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1999 Hildegard Peplau died |
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March 30
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1998 Eleanor C. Lamberston died |
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March 31
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1927 Teresa Christy born in Brooklyn NY |
| 1873 Women's Education Assoc. (Boston) proposed nurses' training school 1901 University of Virginia School of Nursing opened |
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April 2
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1982 Teresa Christy died |
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April 3
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1802 Dorothea Dix born Hampden ME |
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April 5
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1930 Linda Richards died |
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April 7
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1939 Jane Hitchcock died |
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April 9
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1860 NightingaleFund Council & St Thomas Hosp Board establish school |
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April 11
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1905 Colorado licensure law |
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April 12
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1912 Clara Barton died |
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April 14
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1919 Jane A. Delano died in an Army hospital in France |
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April 15
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1947 Army-Navy Nurse Act secures commission status for military nurses |
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April 16
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1901 NYSNA,1st SNA, founded 1956 Lavinia Dock died |
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April 17
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1873 Connecticut Training School founded [admitted 1st class 10/1873] |
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April 18
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1917 Florence Wald born NYC |
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April 19
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1916 M. Elizabeth Carnegie born Baltimore MD |
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April 23
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1996 AAHN launched web site |
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April 25
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1893 Nightingale Pledge recited 1st time, Detroit MI |
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April 26
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1920 Sophia Palmer died |
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April 27
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1915 Ohio Board of Nursing created |
| 1873 Bellevue Hospital Training School founded | |
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May 2
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1930 Lillian Clayton died 1915 Jessie Scott born, Wilkes Barre, PA |
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May 5
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1942 US Army Nurses taken POW in Philippines |
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May 7
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1845 Mary Eliza Mahoney born in Dorchester, MA |
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May 12
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1820 Florence Nightingale born in Florence |
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May 13
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1908 Navy Nurse Corps established |
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May 14
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2003 Marguerite Manfreda died |
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May 15
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1910 Isabel Hampton Robb died |
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May 17
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1888 May Ayres Burgess born Newton Highlands MA |
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May 21
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1881 Clara Barton & associates establish the American Red Cross |
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May 25
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1918 Army School of Nursing authorized by Secretary of War |
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May 26
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1853 Sophia Palmer born Milton MA 1881 Julia Stimson born Worcester MA |
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May 28
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1925 1st meeting of parent organization of Frontier Nursing Service |
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1952 1st issue of Nursing Research |
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June 2
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1861 US Sanitary Commission created |
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June 3
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1888 Alice Fisher died, Philadelphia, PA |
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June 6
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1912 NOPHN founded |
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June 7
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1893 Dorothy Deming born New Haven CT 1969 Sharon Lane US ANC killed in Vietnam |
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June 9
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1861 Dorothea Dix appointed Superintendent of Female Nurses of Union Army |
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June 10
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1970 Anna Mae Hays, Chief, ANC, 1st woman promoted to brigadier general. |
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June 14
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1839 Alice Fisher born in Greenwich, England |
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June 15 - 17
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1893 Isabel Hampton organized the nurses' meeting at Int. Congress of Charities, Correction & Philanthropy meeting during Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Society of Superintendents of Training Schools founded. |
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June 15 - 20
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1952 Last joint meeting of ANA, NLNE, NOPH |
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June 17
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1952 NOPHN dissolved |
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June 22
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1878 CT Training School contracts w/ Lippincott to publish A Manual of Nursing 2006 Vern Bullough died |
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June 28
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1914 Rozella M. Schlotfeldt born in DeWitt, IA 1876 Clara Maass born in Newark, NJ |
| 1943 US Cadet Nurse Corps established under administration of the USPHS; existed from 7/1/1943-6/30/1948 | |
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July 1
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1949 Air Force Nurse Corps was established. |
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July 5
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1934 1st meeting of ICN's Florence Nightingale Foundation |
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July 8
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1886 Stella Goostray born in Boston MA |
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July 9
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1904 Colorado State Trained Nurses formed |
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July 10
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1875 Minnie Goodnow born in Albion NY |
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July 13
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1925 Madeleine Leininger born in Sutton, NE |
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July 18
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1887 Dorothea Dix died 1918 Nurse Corps renamed Army Nurse Corps |
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July 27
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1841 Linda Richards born Potsdam NY 1913 Josephine Dolan born Cranston RI |
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August 1
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1863 Jane Hitchcock born 1879 Mary E Mahoney graduates New England Hosp. for Women & Children |
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August 3
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1861Congress authorized Surgeon General to employ women as nurses for Army Hospital for $12.00/month |
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August 4
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1849 Lucy Lincoln Drown born in Providence RI |
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August 7
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1891 Anne L. Austin born in Ischua NY |
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August 9
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1955 Male nurses commissioned for Army Reserve for assignment to ANC Branch |
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August 12
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1876 Mary R. Rinehart born Allegheny PA 1909 Jane Delano becomes Supt. ANC |
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August 13
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1910 Florence Nightingale died |
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August 24
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1901 Clara L. Maass died in Havana Cuba |
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August 25
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1908 National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses founded |
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August 26
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1859 Isabel A. Hampton born Welland ONT |
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August 27
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1914 Edith Patton Lewis born in Philadelphia PA |
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September 1
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1872 New England Hosp. admits 1st class 1940 Lillian Wald died |
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September 2
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1896 Meeting to form Nurses Associated Alumnae |
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September 6
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1950 1st African American enters UMD nursing program Ildaura Murillo-Rohde born |
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September 12
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1971 Lillian Wald inducted Hall of Fame 1983 Florence Blake died |
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September 13
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1854 Dita Hopkins Kinney born in New York City |
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September 14
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1897 Margaret Sanger born in Corning NY |
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September 18
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1912 Amelia Leino born in Three Town, WY |
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September 20
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1886 Sr Elizabeth Kenny born in Warialda, Australia |
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September 21
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1906 Lydia Eloise Hall born in New York City Yom Kippur |
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September 22
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1969 Am. Assoc. of Cardiovascular Nurses formed; later: AACN |
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September 30
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1966 Congress authorizes commissions in Regular Army for male nurses |
| 1902 Lina Rogers, of Henry Street Settlement, becomes first school nurse. 1873 Connecticut Training School admitted first class 1874 Linda Richards became night superintendent at Bellevue; started practice of keeping records and writing orders. 1899 Hospital Economics course offered at Teachers College 1889 Johns Hopkins Training School opened |
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October 1
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1873 Linda Richards graduated New England Hosp. 1900 AJN 1st published |
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October 2
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1948 Adelaide Nutting died 1869 Clara Noyes born 1903 Lulu W. Hassenplug born |
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October 4
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1922 Sigma Theta Tau formalized |
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October 11
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1915 Edith Cavell executed |
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October 24
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1955 Anna Eldredge died |
| 1873 Boston Training School for Nurses opened | |
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November 1
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1858 Adelaide Nutting born in Frost Village, QUE |
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November 4
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1854 Florence Nightingale arrives in Scutari 1864 Anita Newcomb McGee born in Washington, DC |
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November 5
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1871 Mary Gardner born in Newton MA |
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November 8
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1938 Spirit of Nursing monument dedicated in Arlington Nat. Cemetery |
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November 10
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1962 Alice Louise Florence Fitzgerald died |
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November 11
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1993 Womens Vietnam Memorial dedicated Washington DC |
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November 25
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1999 Lucile Petry Leone died |
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November 29
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1832 Louisa May Alcott born in Germantown, PA |
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November 30
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1897 Virginia Henderson born Kansas City, MO 1907 Florence Blake - born Stevens Point WI |
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December 1
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1982 Ruth Freeman died |
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December 4
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2004 Josephine Dolan died |
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December 5
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1906 Ruth Freeman born Methuen MA |
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December 7
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1890 Katharine Densford Dreves born Crothersville IN |
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December 14
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1934 Bertha Harmer died |
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December 21
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1863 Sophie Mannerheim, ICN president 1922-1925, born |
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December 25
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1821 Clara Barton born Oxford MA |
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December 31
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1954 Annie Goodrich died |
