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1920 was a year.
Events
Dated
In November, the Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright and Jamie McCrimmon visited Kent. (AUDIO: The Mouthless Dead)
On 5 December, Kathy Nightingale, having been touched by the Weeping Angels in the 2000s,[nb 1] was transported to Hull on this date. Stranded, she established a new life for herself, eventually marrying Ben Wainwright and raising a family. (TV: Blink)
Undated
In Prague, the word "robot", meaning "forced labour" in Czech, was coined by Karel Capek. (COMIC: The Broken Man; AUDIO: Children of Steel)
Meanwhile in England, Agatha Christie's first book was published this year. (AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight)
The Eleventh Doctor and Harry Houdini defeated the Cuculus in New York City. (PROSE: Houdini and The Space Cuckoos)
Births and deaths
On 20 January, Toshiko Sato's grandfather was born in Japan. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)
Other
1920 equated to 5681 in the Jewish calendar. (AUDIO: The Mouthless Dead)
New York City's total population was 5,620,042, 2,028,160 of whom were foreign-born. (TV: The Gathering)
Footnotes
- ↑ While Blink itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in 2007 and "twenty minutes to Red Hatching" a year later in 2008—as Kathy Nightingale's letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920", and the Tenth Doctor's side of his conversation with Sally Sparrow in 1969 happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the Redacted audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In Angels, Abby McPhail identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests 2009 as the year of the Red Hatching. In Salvation, the Thirteenth Doctor recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of Andy Proctor, who was last seen by his daughter Cleo "nearly 20 years" before 2022 according to Recruits.