American fashion designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Harkness" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ruth Harkness">Ruth Harkness</a> encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sichuan">Sichuan</a>; it becomes the first live <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Giant panda">giant panda</a> to enter the United States.<sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_9#cite_note-21" id="mwARY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARc">[21]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-21">Kiefer, Michael (29 November 1990). "Quentin Young, Ruth Harkness, and the pandas in China". San Diego Reader.</span>