1963

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Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

March

(Note: Dating and other information is suggested by the Telos novella Time and Relative, although material in An Unearthly Child and Remembrance of the Daleks suggests that the TARDIS arrives in May)

April

October

November

  • Sometime before the 22nd - The Spacefleet fighter Tisiphone, which had fallen into a temporal rift in 2547 during a battle with Daleks, exits the temporal rift near Earth space. Its crew manages to escape to England. (NA:Return of the Living Dad)
  • 22 - In Texas, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by James Stevens, a journalist who has travelled from the future using a time ring. Stevens is the long-rumored "man on the grassy knoll," who has murdered the President to thwart the Master's plan to sabotage Earth's history and create a timeline in which UNIT and very possibly the Third Doctor never existed. (MA: Who Killed Kennedy) The Ninth Doctor is in the crowd watching President Kennedy's motorcade drive by just before the President is assassinated. A photograph which shows the Doctor among the spectators later finds its way into Clive Finch's collection of files about the Doctor. (DW: Rose) As far as the general public is concerned, the man responsible for the killing is Lee Harvey Oswald, although conspiracy theories about the actual culprit persist for decades afterwards.
  • 23 - The Doctor and Ace arrive in London, with the Doctor returning to the site of 76 Totters Lane and Coal Hill School intending to complete some unfinished business involving the Hand of Omega, which had been interrupted by an abrupt departure centuries earlier (subjective time) (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks and An Unearthly Child). The Daleks, led by Davros, attempt an invasion at this time, leading to a major gunbattle at Totters Lane. Meanwhile, a new science-fiction serial, Doctor ___, begins broadcasting on the BBC. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) The Nemesis passes by Earth, heralding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (see below). (DW: Silver Nemesis)
  • 24 - Elsewhere on earth, Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy, is himself assassinated in Dallas by Jack Ruby.

Unknown date

Nyssa is born on Traken.

In John Smith's fictional future, he dies in this year (DW: The Family of Blood

History of Doctor Who

September

  • 19 - First filming session for the show. A one day shoot at Ealing

October

November

December

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