1947

Events

June

• A Nedenah spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. (PROSE: 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 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)

Behind the scenes

January

• 2 - Eiji Kusuhara, Toshio Shimura in AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks, was born.
• 11 - Anna Calder-Marshall was born in Kensington, London.
• 17 - John Alkin (Lomand in TV: Planet of Fire) was born.
• 27 - Peter Burroughs (the Jester in TV: The King's Demons) was born.
• 30 - Paddy Kingsland, who provided incidental music for Doctor Who, was born.

February

• 10 - Michael Keating (Goudry in TV: The Sun Makers) was born.
• 17 - Dallas Adams (Howard Foster in TV: Planet of Fire) was born.

March

• 10 - Colin Stinton (Arthur Coleman Winters in TV: The Sound of Drums) was born in Canada.
• 15 - Tony Osoba (Lan in TV: Destiny of the Daleks and Kracauer in TV: Dragonfire) was born.
• 17 - Petra Markham was born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England.
• 25 - Elton John was born.
• 29 - Leslie Meadows (Adlon in TV: Delta and the Bannermen) was born.

April

• 30 - Leslie Grantham (Kiston in TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) was born.

May

• 6 - Alan Dale (Aaron Copley in TV: Reset) was born.
• 19 - Michael Cochrane, who played several roles in Doctor Who, was born.

June

• 1 - Jonathan Pryce was born in Holywell, Wales.
• 12 - Christopher Farries (Sauvix in TV: Warriors of the Deep) was born.
• 24 - Brendan Price (Tomas in TV: The Face of Evil) was born.

August

• 12 - John Nathan-Turner was born.

September

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

October

• 4 - Ann Widdecombe, who played herself in TV: The Sound of Drums, was born.
• 16 - Guy Siner (Ravon in TV: Genesis of the Daleks) was born.

November

• 17 - James Warwick was born.

December

• 7 - Wendy Padbury, who played Zoe Heriot, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
• 7 - Patrick Troughton made his TV debut in a production of Hamlet broadcast in the UK.
• 29 - Alan David (Gabriel Sneed in TV: The Unquiet Dead) was born.

Unknown

• Terry Molloy was born in Liverpool.