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Timeline for 1962 |
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Events
- 10 October - The British Intelligence operative Edward Grainger travelled to Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin to meet an agent who was preparing to cross the Berlin Wall from East Germany. (PROSE: Checkpoint)
- Section Eight used the dark arts to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS)
- 21 November - Peri Brown's parents, Janine and Paul Brown, were married. (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox)
- 23 November - James Stevens turned seventeen and learned that he had been adopted. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
Unknown dates
- A Dalek soldier, a survivor of the Last Great Time War between its race and the Time Lords, fell through time and crashed like a meteorite "on the Ascension Islands". The Dalek lay in its burning crater for three days, screaming the entire time, before it was retrieved. Its weapon systems inactive and its outer armour heavily damaged, the Dalek was sold at private auction and passed through several hands over the next fifty years. (TV: Dalek)
- Benjamin Wainwright, the husband of the temporally displaced Kathy Nightingale, died at the age of 65. (TV: Blink)
- The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler visited the village of Lower Dowham and meddled in a plan to make the entire village disappear. (PROSE: No One Died)
- Professor Rachel Jensen began researching artificial intelligence at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. (AUDIO: Threshold)
- Barbara Wright went on holiday to Toledo, Spain. (AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz)
Alternative timeline
- In an alternative timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II as a result of the Seventh Doctor and Ace accidentally leaving laser technology in Colditz Castle in October 1944, Elizabeth Klein was conducting research at the University of Cambridge during this year, when she was recruited by Major Jonas Faber to study and unlock the secrets of alien technology stored in a bunker in Berlin. (AUDIO: Klein's Story)
Unknown Date
- Actor Julian Bleach was born.