23 November

Events

 * Unknown year- Barbara Wright's aunt Cecilia was born. (ST: 1963)


 * 1638 - The Doctor launched the Nemesis statue into orbit after battling Lady Peinforte with the help of Roundheads in a meadow in Windsor. The Doctor calculated that the statue would pass Earth every twenty-five years before returning in 1988, and set his watch to remind himself. (DW: Silver Nemesis)


 * 1863 - Victoria Waterfield's mother, Edith Rose, died. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks, MA: Downtime)


 * 1945 - James Stevens was born. (MA: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * 1963 -
 * A new science fiction television series, Doctor..., began broadcasting on the BBC. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Jorjie Turner was sent from 2050 to 1963. She was retrieved by K9 Mark 2 and Starkey. They also saved William Pike from being arrested by Barker along the way, preventing Darius Pike from being erased from history. (K9TV: The Cambridge Spy)
 * 1966 - James Stevens turned seventeen. His foster parents told him that he was adopted. (MA: Who Killed Kennedy)


 * 1988 - The Nemesis statue returned to Earth, crash landing in the spot in Windsor from which it was launched. The Seventh Doctor battled Lady Peinforte, Cybermen, and Neo-Nazis to prevent the statue from falling into the wrong hands. (DW: Silver Nemesis)


 * 1997 - The re-coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom took place. (NA: The Dying Days)


 * 2006 - Former Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti died of heart disease. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Three)


 * 2010 - Sarah Jane Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra arrived at the Shopkeeper's shop after the day's issue of the Ealing Echo had the main story featuring him claiming that an alien was in his shop. He revealed that it was a ploy to get them there and sent them through a time window to a different time period for each of them so they could find three special objects. (SJA: Lost in Time)

Behind the scenes

 * 1887 - Boris Karloff, who played Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein was born. Stock footage from the film was used in Doctor Who.
 * 1914 - Roger Avon, who played Saphadin in DW: The Crusade and Daxtar in DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, as well as Wells in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., was born in Jarrow, England.
 * 1916 - Michael Gough, who played the Celestial Toymaker in DW: The Celestial Toymaker and also Councilor Hedin in DW: Arc of Infinity and was once married to Anneke Wills, was born in Malaya (now Malaysia).
 * 1963 - The first episode of DW: An Unearthly Child was first broadcast and Doctor Who was born.
 * 1968 - Episode 4 of DW: The Invasion was first broadcast.
 * 1988 - Part One of DW: Silver Nemesis was first broadcast.
 * 1990 - Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans in The Green Death and the High Priest in Death to the Daleks) died.
 * 2001 - TN: Time and Relative was published, serving as a prequel to An Unearthly Child.
 * 2003 - Bill Strutton died.
 * 2010 - BFA: The Elite finished recording.
 * 2013 - The fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who.