1952
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1952 was a year.
Events
Dated
In the summer of 1952, Barbara Wright took her O-level exams at Hampstead High School for girls. (PROSE: The Plotters)
On 7 September, aliens manipulated the timelines to prevent the first idea of a stardrive being thought of by briefly linking this year with 2197. (AUDIO: The Nowhere Place)
The Third Doctor and Jo Grant visited the Bermuda Triangle in December. (PROSE: Lost and Founded)
Undated
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a successful panel game for archaeology experts that ran on British television from 1952 to 1959. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac) The iconic television series This Is Your Life started in America. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"])
The Third Doctor opened a watch-fixing shop in London called Fixing Time. (PROSE: Amorality Tale)
Winston Churchill, shortly after being re-elected as British Prime Minister, ordered the dismantling of the Festival of Britain monuments, the Dome of Discovery and the Skylon. (AUDIO: The British Invasion)
Polly Wright, age ten, attended a fair where she visited a gypsy fortune teller, who warned her of a tall, dark stranger. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
The Eleventh Doctor attended a party in Hollywood, California, performed a duet with Frank Sinatra and met Marilyn Monroe, to whom he "accidentally" became engaged to be married. They were wed that night, though the Doctor later disputed the legitimacy of the chapel in which the wedding took place. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
Diane Holmes flew from England to Australia in four days. (TV: Out of Time)
The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble encountered the Fumifugium during the Great Smog of London. (AUDIO: The Creeping Death)
Births and deaths
Dated
Neil Redmond's mother was born on 5 January. (AUDIO: Uncanny Valley)
On 6 February, King George VI died, and was succeeded on the throne by his daughter Elizabeth II. (PROSE: A History of Humankind)
Undated
Roderick Mitchell was born in Bay City, Texas. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])
Shaun Brett was born. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead)
