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8 October was a date.
In 1744, the banana daiquiri was invented at a party held by King Louis XV, possibly a few centuries too early. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary, TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
On 8 October (PROSE: Cardiff Earthquake) 2006, (TV: Boom Town) UNIT issued a press briefing about the clean-up work in the aftermath of the Cardiff Earthquake. While the operation was successful, UNIT stated that many people were missing, including Mayor of Cardiff Margaret Blaine, and UNIT's Scientific Advisors all agreed that the Blaidd Drwg Power Plant project should be abandoned due to the instability of the ground it was proposed to be built on. (PROSE: Cardiff Earthquake)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] Tony Warner, while playing football with his mates in a local Ealing park, accidentally kicked the ball too far, and was kidnapped by Odd Bob the Clown as he went to retrieve it. This made him the third child to vanish from that area that week. (TV: The Day of the Clown)
Footnotes
- ↑ No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008, and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
