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Events

Doctor Who Universe

January

• 1 - Professor Bernice Summerfield arrives on Guernsey, in the English Channel. (BFBS: Just War (audio drama))
• 20 - Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato meets the real Jack Harkness at The Ritz. (TW: Captain Jack Harkness)
• 21 - The Ninth 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

• 1 -6 - Professor Bernice Summerfield, stranded on Nazi-occupied Guernsey, uncovers a secret German weapon based on technology from the future. (BFBS: Just War)

May

• 27 - The German battleship Bismarck is sunk, with a loss of 2200 crewmembers, after engaging warships in the North Atlantic. (known history) The Doctor may have witnessed the sinking. DW: Terror of the Zygons)

August

• 18 - Bilis Manger contacts Tilda Brennan and indicates that she follow the instructions in File TW3/87/BM. (TWN: The Twilight Streets)
• 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

• 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 but the Daleks manage to create a new paradigm and use a Time corridor to escape. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)

Real World

January

• 11 - Malcolm Terris is born.

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

• 9 - Hannah Gordon, who played Kirsty McLaren in DW: The Highlanders, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

May

• 2 - Paul Darrow is born.

July

• 8 - Polly James is born.
• 10 - Jackie Lane, who portrayed companion Dodo Chaplet, is born in Manchester, England.
• 15 - Geoffrey Burgon is born.
• 28 - Patrick Tull, one of the voices of the Krotons in DW: The Krotons, is born in Sussex, England.

August

• 4 - Martin Jarvis, who has appeared in several guest roles in Doctor Who, is born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
• John Atterbury is born.

October

• 16 - David Ashford is born.
• 20 - Anneke Wills, who portrayed companion Polly Wright, is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• 28 - John Hallam is born.

November

• 8 - Nerys Hughes is born.

December

• 2 - Colin McCormack is born.
• 24 - John Levene, who portrayed John Benton, is born John Anthony Woods in Salisbury, England.