1942

1942 in

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the DWU • vital statistics

Events

The German calendar for January 1942. (COMIC: Timebenders)

• The Third Doctor encountered several Nazi soldiers in France. (COMIC: Timebenders)

July

• 28 July- The American Federation of Musicians' recording ban first started, banning American artists from recording music. (PROSE:Atom Bomb Blues)
• Reports of vampires emerged from Romania. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
• 24 December - Oskar Steinmann supervised the first test of a "flying bomb" at Peenemunde. (PROSE: Just War)

Unknown Dates

• Gerald Kneale died, becoming one of the few Torchwood Institute operatives not to be killed on active service. (COMIC: Rift War! Part Six: Circles)
• Ben Jackson was born. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
• Polly Wright was born. (PROSE: The Murder Game, AUDIO: Resistance)
• Anthony Chambers was born. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

Alternative timeline

• In an alternative timeline, the Allied leaders met in a secret bunker underneath Washington, D.C.. With no common enemy to fight, relations between the Soviets, Americans and British broke down. The centre of the debate was the Ironsides. Neither Stalin nor Truman were keen to allow such powerful weapons to be the property of the British Army alone, but the Ironsides' insistence that under no circumstances would they relocate from the United Kingdom left Churchill with no choice but to agree to their destruction. (DWAN: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)

• 25 January - Actor John Owens was born.
• 7 February - Actor Gareth Hunt was born.
• 14 February - Director Michael E. Briant was born.
• 16 February - Actor Patricia Maynard was born.
• 28 February - Actor Robin Phillips was born.
• 6 March - Actor David Wolliscroft was born.
• 24 March - Actor Stephen Yardley was born.
• 8 April - Director Lovett Bickford was born.
• 22 April - Actor Denis Lill was born.
• 28 April - Actor Ilona Rodgers was born.
• 12 May - Actor Pam St. Clement was born.
• 12 - Actor Royce Mills was born.
• 14 May - Actor Prentis Hancock was born.
• 15 May - Actor Paul Shelley was born.
• 22 May - Actor Cavan Kendall was born.
• 8 June - Writer and director Peter Grimwade was born.
• 11 June - Actor David Quilter was born.
• 18 June - Musician Paul McCartney was born.
• 23 June - Actor James Marcus was born.
• 3 July - Actor Richard Kerley was born.
• 5 August - Actor Derek Keller was born.
• 7 August - Actor Chloe Ashcroft was born.
• 16 August - Actor John Challis was born.
• 29 November - Actor Michael Craze was born.
• 2 December - Actor John D. Collins was born.
• 13 December - Actor Hamish Wilson was born.
• 17 December - Actor Ian Talbot was born.
• 23 December - Actor Chubby Oates was born.