Yes it has, and there are now enough tx in Bcash mempool to mine a >1MB block
So, yeah, it happened.
Another confirmation (from Bcash chain)
$ bitcoin-cli getchaintips
[
{
"height": 478559,
"hash": "00000000000000000019f112ec0a9982926f1258cdcc558dd7c3b7e5dc7fa148",
"branchlen": 1,
"status": "invalid"
},