1947

Events

Doctor Who universe

June

• A Nedenah spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. (PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
• 13 - 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 for the next eleven years. (DW: Dreamland)
• The technology from one of the above crashes would end up in the hands of Henry van Statten decades later. He would use it to develop broadband internet. (DW: Dalek)

Unknown Dates

• The Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly arrived in Los Angeles and assisted the police in a murder investigation. (PDA: 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. (PDA: Heart of TARDIS)
• The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble arrived in India. (NSA: Ghosts of India)

Behind the scenes

January

• 11 - Anna Calder-Marshall was born in Kensington, London.

February

• 17 - Dallas Adams is born.

March

• 10 - Colin Stinton is born in Canada.
• 17 - Petra Markham is born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England.
• 29 - Leslie Meadows is born.

May

• 6 - Alan Dale is born.

June

• 1 - Jonathan Pryce is born in Holywell, Wales.
• 12 - Christopher Farries is born.

August

• 12 - John Nathan-Turner is born.

September

• 12 - Christopher Neame is born in London.
• 18 - Paul Seed is born.
• 30 - Rula Lenska is born.

October

• 16 - Guy Siner is born.

November

• 17 - James Warwick is born.

December

• 7 - Wendy Padbury, who played Zoe Heriot, is born at Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
  • Patrick Troughton makes his TV debut in a production of Hamlet broadcast in the UK.
• 29 - Alan David is born.

Unknown

• Terry Molloy is born in Liverpool.