1923

1923 in

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the DWU • vital statistics

On 9 November, 1923, the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in Munich just as the Beer Hall Putsch concluded. Adolf Hitler and other members of the Kampfbund had been driven away from the War Office by soldiers. To Ace's surprise, the Doctor told Hitler that he must not give up and would one day rule Germany. Hastily explaining his actions were necessary to ensure that Earth history ran its proper course, the Doctor ushered Ace back to the TARDIS, where they were fired upon with an energy weapon, a sign that a non-contemporaneous person had been manipulating the past. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Botanist George Cranleigh was believed to have been killed by hostile Indians while on an expedition in the Amazon. In fact, he was mutilated and had his tongue cut out. Returning to England alive, he was kept a prisoner by his mother Lady Madge Cranleigh and his brother Charles Cranleigh in Cranleigh Hall in Oxfordshire. (TV: Black Orchid)

A British archaeological survey of Rome by Professor Livesy-Smythe turned up a scroll by Caecilius. It detailed the true fate of Pompeii. The Torchwood Institute, which was monitoring the survey, was first alerted to the existence of the Pyroviles. (WC: Captain Jack's Monster Files)

• 13 January - Actor Jack Watling was born.
• 16 January - Actor Gordon Sterne was born.

• 11 March - Actor Terence Alexander was born.
• 13 March - Actor George Pastell was born.
• 21 March - Actor Peter Pratt was born.

• 6 April - Actor Michael Rathborne was born.
• 22 April - Actor Hugh Lloyd was born.
• 25 April - Actor Paul Whitsun-Jones was born in Newport, Wales.

• 4 May - Actor Godfrey Quigley was born.

• 9 June - Actor Donald Morley was born.

• 20 July - Actor James Bree was born.

• 10 October - Actor Nicholas Parsons was born.
• 13 October - Actor Cyril Shaps was born.
• 27 October - Producer and script editor Peter Bryant was born.

• 7 November - Actor Derek Francis was born in Brighton.

• 19 December - Writer Elwyn Jones was born.