1928

Events

July

• 27 - The Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Turlough met Edward Grainger near Mount Lishan in China. (PROSE: Falling from Xi'an)

Unknown dates

• Temporal Mechanics published the first formulation of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation).
• Ernest Hemingway settled in Key West. The Seventh Doctor tried to take Ace and Benny to Key West at some later moment to have drinks with "Ernie," but ended up in 1915 Haiti instead (PROSE: White Darkness).
• Goronwy set down some hibiscus blossom. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen)
• Angelo Colasanto was released from prison and was shocked to see Jack Harkness alive. He stabbed him, believing him to be the Devil. Eventually Jack was locked away at a butcher's shop, where more witnesses of his miraculous recovery called him the Devil and tried to kill him. Eventually, Angelo released Jack, wanting to accompany him to Los Angeles but Jack left, leaving his old life behind once more. (TV: Immortal Sins)
• Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time)
• James Stevens' mother was born in New Zealand. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

Behind the scenes

January

• 27 - Michael Craig (Travers in TV: Terror of the Vervoids) was born.

February

• 1 - Robert Rowland, who had an uncredited role as a "terrified Earthling" in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, was born in London.
• 10 - John Ringham (Tlotoxl in TV: The Aztecs, Josiah Blake in TV: The Smugglers and Robert Ashe in TV: Colony in Space) was born.
• 14 - Mark Eden, who played the title character of TV: Marco Polo, was born in London.
• 23 - Bernard Kay, who played various roles in several stories of the original Doctor Who television series, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England.

March

• 6 - Glyn Owen (Rohm-Dutt in TV: The Power of Kroll) was born.
• 23 - Louis Marks was born.
• 29 - Philip Locke (Bigon in TV: Four to Doomsday) was born.
• 31 - John Lee, who portrayed Alydon in TV: The Daleks, was born in Launceston, Tasmania.

April

• 9 - Aubrey Woods (the Controller in TV: Day of the Daleks) was born.
• 18 - Writer and script editor David Whitaker was born.

May

• 8 - John Bennett (Finch in TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Li H'sen Chang in The Talons of Weng-Chiang) was born.
• 18 - John Abineri was born.
• 29 - Frederick Jaeger, who played Jano in TV: The Savages, Sorenson in TV: Planet of Evil and Professor Marius in TV: The Invisible Enemy, was born in Berlin, Germany.

June

• 19 - Ken Barker (the mutant in TV: Revelation of the Daleks) was born.
• 25 - Moray Watson (Sir Robert Muir in TV: Black Orchid) was born.

August

• 16 - Murphy Grumbar (a Dalek operator) was born.

September

• 1 - Emrys James was born.

October

• 23 - Jerome Willis (Stevens in TV: The Green Death) was born.

November

• 26 - Michael Hawkins (General Williams in TV: Frontier in Space) was born.
• 30 - John Bay, who played the Earl of Leicester in TV: The Crusade, was born in Chicago, Illinois.

December

• 29 - Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott) was born.

Unknown dates

• Peter Cellier was born.