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'''1963''' was a [[year]].

==Events==
===Dated===
====January - June====
In late [[March]], [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] materialised in the junkyard at [[76 Totter's Lane]], owned by [[I.M. Foreman]], in the [[Shoreditch]] area of [[London]], disguised incongruously as a [[police box]]. While the [[First Doctor]] attempted repairs and worked out a plan for safely disposing of the [[Hand of Omega]] on [[Earth]] so no-one could find and misuse it, his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] registered at the nearby [[Coal Hill School]] against his wishes. [[Britain]], meanwhile, was in the grip of an unusual cold wave. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time and Relative (novel)}}) However, another account had Susan say they came to London in [[June]], four months before [[October]], and that Susan's first term at Coal Hill was the autumn term in 1963. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Hunters of Earth (audio story)}})

On [[1 April]], the First Doctor fought off an [[alien invasion|invasion]] by [[the Cold (Time and Relative)|the Cold]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time and Relative (novel)}})

In [[May]], using the pseudonym "John Rutherford", the [[Seventh Doctor]] was elected as an independent member of [[Houses of Parliament|Parliament]] on a platform of nuclear disarmament. He retained his seat until the next general election in [[October]] [[1964]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)}})

In the [[summer]] of 1963, the [[First Doctor]] was put on [[trial]] for the murder of the [[werewolf]] [[Roberta Sampson]]. The [[Second Doctor|Second]], [[Third Doctor|Third]], [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s served on the [[jury]], all using pseudonyms, and gradually convinced the other jurors of the First Doctor's innocence. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Juror's Story (short story)}})

====July - October====
In the summer, the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]] visited London. They met [[Fitz Kreiner]] and discovered that [[Charles Roley]] had amassed a group of individuals who were all descended from the test subjects of the [[Benelisa]]n robot [[Azoth]]. The Doctor defeated Azoth, but was too late to save the descendants. He was forced to kill all of them, including Fitz's mother [[Muriel Kreiner]]. On the run from the police and without any living family, Fitz decided to leave London and travel with the Doctor and Sam. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Taint (novel)}})

According to one account, Susan said she had been at Coal Hill since the start of the autumn term. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Hunters of Earth (audio story)}}) Another account stated she enrolled in late March. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time and Relative (novel)}})

On [[8 August]], the [[Great Train Robbery]] took place. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})

In [[October]], the TARDIS landed on the ''[[Queen Mary]]'', a ship the [[Fourth Doctor]] found to be full of [[ghost]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Ghost Ship (novel)}})

[[File:SusanEncountersProtoplasm.jpg|thumb|Susan encounters a human mutated by [[Operation Proteus]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Operation Proteus (comic story)|Operation Proteus]]'')]]
On [[22 October]], whilst at a bar, Susan witnessed a [[human]] mutate into an alien. She and the Doctor followed a trail that led to [[Raldonn]], an alien trying to mutate humans to use as pilots for his [[spacecraft]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Operation Proteus (comic story)}}) Susan was abducted by the [[Threshold]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Ground Zero (comic story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Operation Proteus (comic story)}})

The [[Imperial Dalek]]s came to Earth in order obtain the Hand of Omega. [[Davros]] ordered that the First Doctor be exterminated. While the First Doctor was contemplating where to put the Hand, a Dalek tried to shoot him. The [[Seventh Doctor]] interfered and used his umbrella to make the First Doctor trip and evade the beam. He then pushed the Dalek into a bus. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time & Time Again (comic story)}})

In late October, the First Doctor made arrangements with a Shoreditch funeral parlour to bury the Hand of Omega in a nearby [[graveyard]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})

====November====
On [[10 November]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] arrived at the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|1963: The Space Race (audio story)}})

[[Nemesis]] approached [[Earth]] before the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]] and, the [[Seventh Doctor]] implied, influenced it to happen. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}})

=====22 November=====
[[File:John F. Kennedy zoom in Rose.jpg|thumb|left|[[John F. Kennedy]] moments before his assassination. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') ]]
On [[22 November]], the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] took place, witnessed by the [[Ninth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}}) According to one account, the assassination was created by the [[Renegade Time Lord]] [[Berenyi]], who engineered [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]'s personal history so that he would kill the president. A [[Designer]], a time travelling mercenary who affected changes to the timeline, Berenyi was hired to engineer the assassination. She was with Oswald when he shot Kennedy. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Untitled (DWM 171 short story)}})

According to another account, Oswald was incorrectly arrested as the culprit and the true assassin was [[James Stevens]]. {{Delgado|c}} attempted to use [[Francis Cleary]] - a brainwashed UNIT soldier from [[1971]] - to prevent the assassination to change history, but was prevented from doing so by James Stevens, who witnessed his future self carry out the murder. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}})

Also on that day, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}}) [[Sarah Jane Smith]] went to [[London]] with her [[aunt Lavinia]]. While in [[Shoreditch]], Sarah wandered away from her aunt and into Totter's Yard, where she found the First Doctor's TARDIS, but dismissed it as just a [[police box]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Playtime (short story)}})

Just after Sarah left, [[Coal Hill School]] teachers [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] followed Susan home from the [[school]]. They discovered the TARDIS in [[76 Totter's Lane]]. Fearing the consequences, the First Doctor abducted them. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)#An Unearthly Child (1)|An Unearthly Child]]'') The Doctor retained his [[library card]] from [[Shoreditch Library]], which was due to expire this month, though he never bothered to renew it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Vampires of Venice (TV story)}})

After this, the disappearance of the two teachers was noticed, but all thought Ian and Barbara had eloped. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Face of the Enemy (novel)}})

Six-year-old [[Gerry Billing]], who had become separated from his family on the [[London Underground]] while they were on a [[Christmas]] shopping trip into [[London]], overheard the confrontation between the Doctor, Ian and Barbara and, looking for a policeman to help him, approached the TARDIS and touched it just before it disappeared. As the Doctor had been working on the TARDIS' [[telepathic circuits]], a [[psychic link]] was initiated between Gerry and the TARDIS, causing him to have visions of the Doctor's adventures in his dreams for years afterward. A policeman found Gerry after the TARDIS had departed, and he was reunited with his worried parents. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Imaginary Friends (novel)}})

After 22 November, the [[Spacefleet]] fighter ''[[Tisiphone]]'', which had fallen into a [[temporal rift]] in [[2547]] during a battle with [[Dalek]]s, exited the temporal rift near Earth space. Its crew, led by [[Isaac Summerfield II|Admiral Isaac Summerfield II]], escaped to [[England]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}})

=====23 November=====
On [[23 November]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[K9 Mark II]] returned to Totter's Lane to retrieve a [[Heshrax]] insect which he had been tracking the day that he left. While there, they met [[Debbie (Those Left Behind)|Debbie]], Susan's best friend from Coal Hill School. Debbie, who turned fifteen that day, was concerned about Susan's sudden disappearance as she knew that Susan would never miss her birthday. She had met the First Doctor on one occasion but the Fourth Doctor did not recall seeing her before. He also did not remember Susan ever mentioning Debbie but admitted that he was not always the best listener. He told Debbie that Susan decided to stay on [[22nd century]] [[Earth]] but then amended this by adding that he chose for her, expressing the hope that this decision was for the best. Debbie was thankful that she met the Doctor as, while she knew that she would never see Susan again, she could at least live her life safe in the knowledge that she was safe in the future rather than spend it wondering what happened to Susan and fearing the worst. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Those Left Behind (short story)}})

[[File:The Cambridge Spy (TV story).jpg|thumb|right|[[William Pike]] is interrogated by [[Barker (The Cambridge Spy)|Barker]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy (TV story)|The Cambridge Spy]]'')]]
[[Jorjie Turner]] was sent from [[2050]] to 23 November 1963. She was retrieved by [[K9 Mark 2]] and [[Starkey]]; together they saved [[William Pike]] from being arrested by [[Barker (The Cambridge Spy)|Barker]], preventing [[Darius Pike]] from being erased from history. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Cambridge Spy (TV story)}})

A creature called the [[Shroud]] attached itself to Earth soon after the assassination of the president and fed off people's grief all around the world. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] stopped the alien before it could take over the planet, and the whole event was written off as a chemical attack. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Shroud of Sorrow (novel)}})

After defeating {{Pratt}} in an alternate timeline, the [[First Doctor]] visited [[Bob Dovie]] with [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]], and [[Susan Foreman]]. Later, Dovie was visited by the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], and [[Zoe Heriot]]. Dovie was then visited by the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]], and the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. Dovie grew increasingly annoyed with each encounter and was very angry when he was visited by the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Light at the End (audio story)}})

[[Amy Pond]], living in [[New York]], sent a letter on this date, in which she talked about her time with the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. [[Yasmin Khan]] later managed to obtain the letter for use in the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]'s [[Book (A Short History of Everyone)|book]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Short History of Everyone (novel)}})

=====Late November=====
From [[29 November|29]] to [[30 November]], the Doctor returned to Shoreditch in his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]] to finish incomplete business and collect the [[Hand of Omega]] and aid the [[Intrusion Counter-Measures Group]], the [[British Army]]'s predecessor to [[UNIT]]. ICMG set up the evacuation of civilians from a three-mile radius of a fight between [[Renegade Dalek|Renegade]] and [[Imperial Dalek]] factions over the Hand, an event which saw activity in [[76 Totter's Lane]] and [[Coal Hill School]]. [[Human]]s aware of the events that occurred later called this the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}})

During the events of the Shoreditch Incident on 30 November, [[Charlie Smith]] also briefly encountered Ace near Coal Hill, after he had fallen through a space-time tear in 2016. He encountered a guard on duty on the school, and had to flee from Imperial Dalek forces. He was rescued by [[Andrea Quill]], just as ICMG forces showed up to deal with the Daleks within Coal Hill. ([[AUDIO]]: {{Cs|In Remembrance (audio story)}}) [[Clive Finch]]'s father, [[Gary Jonathan Finch]], was attached to the ICMG and he was killed during the incident. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})

Eighteen minutes before the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in Shoreditch, their future selves visited Totter's Lane and found that the name on the gate had changed to "I M Forman". Ace confirmed that this was how it was spelled the last time they were here, alerting the Doctor that temporal disruptions were affecting history. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Algebra of Ice (novel)}})

====December====
On [[6 December]], [[British Army]] sergeant [[Mike Smith]] was buried. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) When Ace and the Doctor were leaving Shoreditch after the funeral, the Doctor noted that there had been a temporal anomaly at the school that would need to be dealt with on a day in [[2016]]. The Doctor was distracted, however, by another occurrence (possibly a [[Bandril timeship]]), but Ace was sure to remember the exact date so that she could deal with it in the future. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|In Remembrance (audio story)}})

In early to mid [[December]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] again assisted the [[Intrusion Counter-Measures Group]], this time dealing with the [[Starfire Incident]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)}})

On [[22 December]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]] visited [[Switzerland]], where they solved the mystery of a school haunting and prevented the [[Spillager]] invasion of Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Winter for the Adept (audio story)}})

A few days before Christmas, [[Hawkins (The Rag & Bone Man's Story)|Hawkins]] hired [[Joseph Galloway]] to clear out Totters Lane. While doing so, Galloway found the [[Blessing Star]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)}})

===Undated===
The [[First Doctor]] and his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] went to [[Earth]] and stayed for five months ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]", [[COMIC]]: ''[[Operation Proteus (comic story)|Operation Proteus]]'') although other sources said six months, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'') nine months ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rag & Bone Man's Story]]'') or thirteen months. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'')

[[File:Echoes of Future Past.jpg|thumb|The [[First Doctor]] and the [[Seventh Doctor]] in [[Shoreditch]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Echoes of Future Past (short story)|Echoes of Future Past]]'')]]The [[Seventh Doctor]] met up with the [[First Doctor]] in a [[Shoreditch]] alley and gave him the [[Hand of Omega]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Echoes of Future Past (short story)|Echoes of Future Past]]'')

''[[What's My Line?]]'' was [[host]]ed by [[Eamonn Andrews]] and ran on [[British]] [[television]] from [[1951]] to 1963, each [[Sunday]] at 8:30[[pm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'')

[[River Song]] briefly visited [[Totter's Lane]] to catch a glimpse of the First Doctor. The Doctor saw her and threatened her with his cane for trespassing. River quickly escaped with [[River Song's vortex manipulator|her vortex manipulator]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')

[[Harold Macmillan]] resigned as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] and was succeeded by Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]]. Both men were members of the [[Conservative Party]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'')

In [[Liverpool]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] took [[Martha Jones]] to watch [[the Beatles]] perform. Whilst they were returning to the TARDIS, Martha was teleported to an alien planet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Signs of Life (comic story)|Signs of Life]]'')

The Beatles released their first two albums. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') One of these contained the song "[[Love Me Do]]", which [[Susan Foreman]] considered to be the most important [[song]] of the five years before 1963. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'')

Sometime before Kennedy's assassination, the [[Cybock Imperium]] stole the [[Time-Gun of Rassilon]] from a [[Judoon]] containment facility on [[Janizzar]]. They brought it back to [[Las Vegas]], where they had established themselves in the criminal underworld as the [[Kronos Family]]. After kidnapping members of [[The Wolf Pack]] and [[Clara Oswald]], the Kronos Family became involved in a gang war with the [[Dragotta Family]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gangland (comic story)|Gangland]]'')

[[Romana II]]'s edition of ''[[The Turn of the Screw]]'' by [[Henry James]] was published. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Malkin Place (audio story)|The Haunting of Malkin Place]]'')

[[Ashley ab Hugh]] was found staring at a [[Artefact (The Beauty of Our Weapons)|sculpture]] in [[Ashley ab Hugh Museum|his private collection]] of [[art]]. He had been tearing strips of [[flesh]] from his face and sticking them to the outside of the sculpture. He was taken to [[hospital]], and died three weeks later from [[septicaemia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Beauty of Our Weapons (short story)|The Beauty of Our Weapons]]'')

Mrs. [[Smith (Have You Seen This Man?)|Smith]], an [[usher]]ette, saw the Doctor and [[Susan|his granddaughter]] in the [[Ritz Theatre]] on [[Totter's Lane]], but told them to leave after the Doctor continually and rudely pointed out inaccuracies in [[The Fall of Rome (film)|a film]] about the fall of [[Rome]]. In early [[2005]], Mrs. Smith wrote about her encounter on [[www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk|whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]], thinking that the [[Ninth Doctor]] may have been related to the grey-haired Doctor she met. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'')

==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
On [[29 March]], seventeen-year-old [[Lizzie Lewis]] was [[murder]]ed by [[Ed Morgan]] in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'')

On [[23 November]] in London, a man was stabbed in an alleyway with a flick knife. His murderer was never found. Elsewhere in the city, a baby boy was born. He was named [[John Fitzgerald (1963)|John Fitzgerald]] after the late [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963 (audio story)|1963]]'')

===Undated===
[[Harvey (Bennelong Point)|Harvey]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bennelong Point (short story)|Bennelong Point]]'')

[[Jody Lockhart]] was born. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})

==Other==
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] told [[Amy Pond]] that [[London]] was the coolest place in the universe in 1963 due to [[the Beatles]], [[Sean Connery]] as [[James Bond]], [[the Kinks]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Mary Quant]], [[John Steed]] and [[Cathy Gale]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')

==Other realities==
In [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]]'s possible future, he died, leaving behind [[Joan Redfern (novel character)|Joan]], his children and their children, all safe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')

In a [[Parallel universe (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|parallel universe]], [[Terry Nation (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Terry Nation]] created the [[Dalek]]s for the TV show ''[[Doctor Who (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Doctor Who]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'')

In the original timeline, Kennedy lived past 1963 and became a very inspirational figure of the [[1960s]]. [[The Enemy|Enemy]] [[life-spore]]s infected Kennedy during his second term in office and almost used the [[psychic energy]] surrounding him to rewrite Earth's history, but he died of a [[heart attack]] in [[1967]] before that could happen. [[A (The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A)|An agent of the Great Houses]] erased this timeline by organising the Kennedy assassination. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A (short story)|The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A]]'')

=== Alternate timelines ===
On [[25 July]], while on a fishing trip to an island to the [[Pacific Ocean]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] discovered that the TARDIS had [[materialise]]d in an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] in which [[World War II]] had never ended. After being held at gunpoint by an American fighter pilot native to this timeline named [[Angus Goodman|Angus "Gus" Goodman]], the Doctor offered him the chance to get off the island, which was [[Japan]]ese territory. Goodman accepted the Doctor's offer and became a short-lived companion. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Lunar Lagoon (comic story)|Lunar Lagoon]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)|4-Dimensional Vistas]]'') However, he was killed by [[the Moderator]], a hitman in the employ of [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]], before he could be returned to the [[United States of America]] in his timeline. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Moderator (comic story)|The Moderator]]'')

[[File:Prologue The First Doctor.jpg|thumb|The [[First Doctor]] is attacked by [[Cybermen]] in [[76 Totter's Lane]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the First Doctor]]'')]]
In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon (Hell Bent)|Rassilon]] to take over history, they attacked the [[First Doctor]] on the day that he was supposed to leave [[Earth]] with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the First Doctor]]'')

The [[Dalek]]s, using the [[Eye of Time]] to change history, exterminated [[human]]ity, ravaging and conquering [[Earth]]. This timeline was averted by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
* ''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'' dates [[Thal-Dalek battle|the events]] of ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' to circa 1963, based on the assumption that the First Doctor was able to return Ian and Barbara to the right [[time period]] after ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', but not to the right place. ''[[Peaceful Thals Ambushed! (short story)|Peaceful Thals Ambushed!]]'', on the other hand, suggests an [[Doctor Who universe|in-universe]] date of [[2064]].
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