1939

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

August - September

• 1st September - World War II begins on Earth as Germany invades Poland. The Doctor warned Hitler that Britain and France would declare war if he took this action. (NA: Timewyrm: Exodus)
• As the war progressed, Reverend Wainwright, the vicar of St Judd church at Maiden's Point, began slowly to lose his faith as the allied bombing campaign inflicted huge civilian casualties on German cities. This doubt began to seep into his sermons and would eventually cost him his life when faced with the Haemovores four years later. (DW: The Curse of Fenric')
• Commander Millington and Dr Judson are both assigned to the base at Maiden's point at some point during the war. Judson developed the Ultima machine, a sophisticated military decipher device, while Millington became involved in stockpiling a local poisonous gas/liquid secreted underground in the area under orders from the British high command. The two, friends for thirty years, become increasingly bitter and, in their own ways, unstable. Both become obsessed with local Viking myths and Millington constructed a room that is an exact copy of the German decipher headquarters in Berlin. (DW: The Curse of Fenric')

Real World

February

• 10 - Peter Purves, who portrayed companion Steven Taylor, is born in New Langton, Lancashire, England.

March

• 2 - Hugh Walters, who played William Shakespeare in DW: The Chase, Runcible in DW: The Deadly Assassin, and Vogel in DW: Revelation of the Daleks, is born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England.

July

• 13 - Peter Cushing makes his film debut in The Man in the Iron Mask.

August

• 10 - Kate O'Mara, who portrayed the Rani, is born in Leicester, England.

• 11 - Ian Thompson, who played Hetra in DW: The Web Planet and Malsan in DW: The Chase, is born in Chester, England.

September

• 19 - Charles Pemberton is born.

October

• 20 - Ian Cullen, who played Ixta in DW: The Aztecs is born in Sunderland, England.