23 November

Events

History of Doctor Who

• 1914 - Michael Gough, who played the Celestial Toymaker and also Councilor Hedin in Arc of Infinity, and was once married to Anneke Wills, is born in Malaya (now Malaysia).

Roger Avon, who played Saphadin in The Crusade and Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan, as well as Wells in Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, is born in Jarrow, England.

• 1963 - The First Episode of Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child Broadcast

• 1990 - Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans in The Green Death and the High Priest in Death to the Daleks) dies.

History of the Doctor Who Universe

• 1638 - The Doctor launches the Nemesis statue into orbit after battling Lady Peinforte with the help of Roundheads at a meadow in Windsor. The Doctor calculates that the statue will pass Earth every 25 years before returning in 1988, and sets his watch ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1663 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing events leading to the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Great Plague of London ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1688 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing events leading to the Glorious Revolution and the Nine Years War ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1713 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Northern War ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1738 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the War of Jenkin's Ear and Nadir Shah's sack of Delhi ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1763 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the Seven Years War ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1788 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the French Revolution ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1813 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the Napoleonic Wars ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1838 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the Pastry War, the First British-Afghan War, and civil war in Central America ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1863 - Victoria Waterfield's mother, Edith Rose, dies ("The Evil of the Daleks," "Downtime").
  • The Nemesis statue passes Earth as the American Civil War enters its bloodiest phase ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1888 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, its approach possibly influencing the notorious Jack the Ripper murders in London and the killer Great Blizzard of '88 in the United States ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1913 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, heralding the outbreak of Earth's World War I ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1938 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, heralding Hitler's annexation of Austria and the coming outbreak of World War II ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1963 - The Nemesis statue passes Earth, as American President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas ("Silver Nemesis").

- A new science-fiction television series, Doctor __, begins broadcasting on the BBC ("Remembrance of the Daleks").

• 1988 - The Nemesis statue returns to Earth, crashlanding in the same spot in Windsor from which it was launched. The Doctor battles Lady Peinforte, Cybermen, and Neo-Nazis to prevent the statue from falling into the wrong hands ("Silver Nemesis").

• 1997 - The Recoronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ("The Dying Days")

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