1947

1947 in

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the DWU • vital statistics

Events

• A Nedenah spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
• 13 June - Another spacecraft, piloted by alien ambassador Seruba Velak, also crash landed in the vicinity of Roswell. She was taken prisoner by the US government and held in captivity in Area 51 for the next eleven years until being freed by the Tenth Doctor and her husband Rivesh Mantilax in 1958. (TV: Dreamland)
• The technology from one of the above crashes ended up in the hands of Henry van Statten decades later. He used it to develop broadband internet. (TV: Dalek)
• The Second Doctor recalled either participating in or observing an alien autopsy, which was recorded, in Roswell during this year. The alien in question was presumably one of the victims of the crash of the Nedenah spacecraft. (PROSE: The Wheel of Ice)

Unknown Dates

• The Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright arrived in Los Angeles and assisted the police in a murder investigation. (PROSE: Dying in the Sun)
• British occultist Aleister Crowley faked his own death in Hastings as part of his recruitment by the Americans into the Golgotha Project. (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS)
• The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble arrived in Calcutta, British India where they met Mohandas Gandhi. (PROSE: Ghosts of India)
• 2 January - Actor Eiji Kusuhara was born.
• 11 January - Actress Anna Calder-Marshall was born.
• 17 January - Actor John Alkin was born.
• 27 January - Actor Peter Burroughs was born.
• 30 January - Incidental music composer Paddy Kingsland was born.
• 10 February - Actor Michael Keating was born.
• 17 February - Actor Dallas Adams was born.
• 10 March - Actor Colin Stinton was born.
• 15 March - Actor Tony Osoba was born.
• 17 March - Actress Petra Markham was born.
• 24 March - Television host Alan Sugar was born.
• 25 March - Musician Elton John was born.
• 29 March - Actor Leslie Meadows was born.
• 30 April - Actor Leslie Grantham was born.
• 30 - Writer John Flanagan was born.
• 6 May - Actor Alan Dale was born.
• 19 May - Actor Michael Cochrane was born.
• 1 June - Actor Jonathan Pryce was born.
• 12 June - Actor Christopher Farries was born.
• 24 June - Actor Brendan Price was born.
• 12 August - Producer John Nathan-Turner was born.
• 12 September - Actor Christopher Neame was born.
• 18 September - Actor Paul Seed was born.
• 30 September - Actress Rula Lenska was born.
• 4 October - Politician Ann Widdecombe was born.
• 16 October - Actor Guy Siner was born.
• 17 November - Actor James Warwick was born.
• 7 December - Actress Wendy Padbury was born.
• 7 - Patrick Troughton made his TV debut in a production of Hamlet broadcast in the UK.
• 29 December - Actor Alan David was born.