1947

Events

Doctor Who Universe

June

• A Nedenah spacecraft crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. (PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
• 13 - Another spacecraft, piloted by alien ambassador Seruba Velak, also crash lands in the vicinity of Roswell. She is taken prisoner by the US government and held in captivity for the next 11 years. (DW: Dreamland)
• The technology from one of the above crashes ends up in the hands of Henry van Statten, who uses it to develop broadband internet. (DW: Dalek)

Unknown Dates

• The Doctor. Ben Jackson and Polly arrive in Los Angeles and assist the police in a murder investigation. (PDA: Dying in the Sun)

• British Occultist Aleister Crowley fakes his own death in Hastings, as part of his recruitment by the Americans into the Golgotha Project. (PDA: Heart of TARDIS)

• The Doctor and Donna Noble arrive in India. (NSA: Ghosts of India)

Real World

January

• 11 - Anna Calder-Marshall is 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 portrayed companion 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.