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June

 * Prior to 28th June - Julia Hardwick, a woman from the early 21st century, is transported back to this year by the Weeping Angels (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas).
 * 28 - Julia Hardwick, still recovering from her time displacement, tries to convince people she is from the future. Her story catches the attention of a local newspaper, which publishes a story about her on this date (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas).

November

 * 10 - American gunfighter Doc Holliday dies, but not before giving a journalist a detailed account of an aspect of the O.K. Corral gunfight several years earlier not generally recorded in the history books, involving another Doctor. (DWN: The Gunfighters) ''The date of Holliday's death is incorrect in the novelisation, as he actually died on Nov. 8.

Unknown dates

 * Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet," the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, was published. Doyle had been commissioned to ghost write fictionalized accounts of the cases of a real consulting detective and his physician assistant, called in the stories, "Dr. Watson." Doyle's fictional version of the detective was inspired by the Fourth Doctor, whom he met several years earlier. The real detectives Holmes and Watson were based on also had their own adventure with the Seventh Doctor. (MA: Evolution, NA: All-Consuming Fire)
 * Esperanto was invented by Zamenhof to become a universal language of peace. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks)