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== Events ==

===[[Doctor Who Universe]]===

====[[January]]====
*[[1st January|1]] - Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]] arrives on [[Guernsey Island]], in the [[British Channel]].  ([[BFBS]]: ''[[Just War (audio drama)]]'')
*[[20th January|20]] - [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Toshiko Sato]] meets the real [[Jack Harkness (1940s)|Jack Harkness]] at [[The Ritz]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness]]'')
*[[21st January|21]]- [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] traces a [[mauve alert]] signal to [[London]], where he finds a sinister child wearing a gas mask, and meets Captain [[Jack Harkness]].  ([[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]''/''[[The Doctor Dances]]'')

====[[March]]====
* [[1st March |1]] -[[6th March|6]] - Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]], stranded on [[Nazi]]-occupied [[Guernsey Island]], uncovers a secret [[German]] weapon based on technology from the future.  ([[BFBS]]: ''[[Just War (audio drama)]]'')

====[[May]]====
* [[27th May|27]] - The [[German]] battleship ''Bismarck'' is sunk, with a loss of 2200 crew members, after engaging warships in the North [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]. (''known history'') [[The Doctor]] may have witnessed the sinking.  [[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'')

====[[August]]====
* [[18th August|18]] - [[Bilis Manger]] contacts [[Tilda Brennan]] and indicates that she follow the instructions in File TW3/87/BM. ([[TWN]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets]]'')
* [[22nd August|22]] - [[Jack Harkness]] returns to the Hub to find the personnel of [[Torchwood Three]] incapacitated by [[Tilda Brennan]], who is shot dead when [[the Light]] gives up possession of her body. The Light use the diary of [[Gideon Tarry]] to take the body of [[Greg Bishop]]. ([[TWN]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets]]'')

====[[November]]====
* [[2nd November|2]] - ''[[The Way of All Flesh]]''
* ''[[Me and My Shadow]]''

====Unknown Dates====
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]] are summoned to [[Earth]] by [[British Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill]] and find the Daleks are trying to invade Earth. This is thwarted by the Tardis crew. ([[DW]]: [[Victory of the Daleks]])

===Real World===
====[[January]]====
*[[11th January|11]] - [[Malcolm Terris]] is born.

====[[March]]====
*[[26th March|26]] - [[Richard Dawkins]], ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer and husband to [[Lalla Ward]], who had a cameo as himself in [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', is born in Nairobi, [[Kenya]].

====[[April]]====
*[[9th April|9]] - [[Hannah Gordon]], who played [[Kirsty McLaren]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Highlanders]]'', is born in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].

====[[May]]====
*[[2nd May|2]] - [[Paul Darrow]] is born.

====[[July]]====
*[[8th July|8]] - [[Polly James]] is born.
*[[15th July|15]] - [[Geoffrey Burgon]] is born.
*[[28th July|28]] - [[Patrick Tull]], one of the voices of the [[Kroton]]s in [[DW]]: ''[[The Krotons]]'', is born in [[Sussex]], [[England]].

====[[August]]====
*[[4th August|4]] - [[Martin Jarvis]], who has appeared in several guest roles in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', is born in [[Wikipedia:Cheltenham|Cheltenham]], [[Wikipedia:Gloucestershire|Gloucestershire]], [[England]].
*4 - [[John Atterbury]] is born.

====[[October]]====
*[[16th October|16]] - [[David Ashford]] is born.
*[[20th October|20]] - [[Anneke Wills]], who portrayed companion [[Polly Wright]], is born in [[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]].
*[[28th October|28]] - [[John Hallam]] is born.

====[[November]]====
*[[8th November|8]] - [[Nerys Hughes]] is born.

====[[December]]====
*[[2nd November|2]] - [[Colin McCormack]] is born.
*[[24th December|24]] - [[John Levene]], who portrayed [[Sgt. Benton]], is born John Anthony Woods in [[Salisbury]], [[England]].

====unknown date====
*[[Elaine Ives-Cameron]] is born.

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