26 March

In a letter dated 26 March 1865, Captain Will Johnson noted that the women of Gable had become quite taken with the young "English" Dr Smith, and were "rather disconsolate" to understand that the companions with whom Smith was anxious to reunite were, in fact, female. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)

In 1963, science teacher Ian Chesterton spent 40 minutes teaching his Coal Hill School students that "magnesium burns". Time Lord student Susan Foreman, bored with this rather obvious "revelation", had in mind to make him burn too with one of her grandfather's ever-lasting matches. It snowed that night, and she and Gillian Roberts made snowmen. (PROSE: Time and Relative)