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In '''1915''', a [[Germany|German]] [[Submarine|U-boat]] torpedoed the ''[[RMS Lusitania]]''.

Sometime in [[April]] or [[May]], [[the Doctor]] was wounded at [[Gallipoli]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'')

On [[7 May]], the ''[[RMS Lusitania]]'' was torpedoed by the ''[[U-20]]'', an act that helped provoke the [[United States]] into entering [[World War I]] two years later. One of the people killed onboard was a petty criminal named [[Eric Charles Vincent]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time]]'')

In August, the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]] arrived in [[Haiti]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness]]'')

[[The Doctor]] met [[Harry Houdini|Harry Houdini.]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')

=== Alternative timelines ===
In [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith's]] [[Alternate timeline|possible future]], he married [[Joan Redfern (novel character)|Joan Redfern]] this year. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')

In another alternative timeline, the ''Lusitania'' did not sink on [[7 May]] due to the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s intervention. [[Eric Charles Vincent]], having survived, went on to kill [[Alexander Fleming]] in a botched robbery attempt in [[December]] [[1927]] before the biologist discovered [[penicillin]]. Without the protection offered by penicillin, [[Earth]] fell prey to new strains of [[meningitis]] and [[pneumonia]] in [[1956]]. The survivors never developed a space programme. Consequently, the [[Knights of Velyshaa]] were not defeated by the [[Earth Alliance]] in [[36th century|3562]] as they otherwise would have been. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'')
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