1940

The Second World War continued in 1940.

May

 * The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, near the Dover cliffs in the UK, worked to prevent a Nemonite invasion from derailing a Second World War counterattack called Operation Dynamo. (AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion)


 * 27 May - 4 June - British Army soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk. This event was noted by the Matrix as a significant part of the Web of Time. (AUDIO: Neverland) The Seventh Doctor convinced Adolf Hitler to allow the evacuation to proceed. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) The First Doctor was present at the evacuation itself (PROSE: Just War, PROSE: Byzantium!), as were the Eighth Doctor and Molly O'Sullivan on 29 May (AUDIO: Fugitives).

October

 * 12 - At 8:47 p.m., the New Regency Theatre, which had been owned and operated by the late Henry Gordon Jago during the 1890s, was destroyed in the Blitz, as was the hotel next to it. (AUDIO: Swan Song)

December

 * The Seventh Doctor visited Guernsey. (PROSE: Just War)
 * A Berserker Pendant was lost in an air raid on Park Vale Barracks, on the future site of Park Vale Comprehensive School. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker)
 * 24 - The Fourth Doctor and Leela encountered the Home Guard volunteer Richard Charlesworth in Charnage House in England. (PROSE: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow)

Unknown Dates

 * The last in an eight year series of child abductions by the Pied Piper occurred in the United States of America. (TV: The Day of the Clown)
 * Sir Oswald Mosley was imprisoned for advocating that the United Kingdom should ally itself with Nazi Germany in World War II. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Alternative timeline

 * In an alternative timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II, King Edward VIII was restored to the British throne with Wallis Simpson as his Queen. He signed a treaty which established Great Britain as a protectorate of the Greater German Reich. The Prime Minister Winston Churchill was executed as a war criminal. He was succeeded by the prominent Nazi sympathiser Sir Oswald Mosley. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

January

 * 11 - R.J. Bell (the Garm in TV: Terminus) was born.
 * 16 - Tony Holland, who played the third assistant in TV: The Savages, was born.
 * 19 - Mike Reid, who had an uncredited role as a soldier in TV: The War Machines and appeared as Frank Butcher in NOTDWU: Dimensions in Time, was born in Hackney, London.
 * 28 - Tony Holland (Third Assistant in TV: The Savages) was born.

February

 * 20 - Judy Cornwell (Maddy in TV: Paradise Towers) was born.
 * 20 - Ian Scoones, a Doctor Who visual effects designer, was born.
 * 27 - Bill Hunter (one of the Guardians in TV: The Ark) was born.

March

 * 08 - Christopher Wray (PC Groom in TV: The Dæmons and Ldg. Seaman Lovell in TV: The Sea Devils) was born.
 * 13 - Christopher Gable (Sharaz Jek in TV: The Caves of Androzani) was born.

April

 * 2 - Sean Barry-Weske was born.
 * 15 - Sean Caffrey (Palmerdale in TV: Horror of Fang Rock) was born.
 * 26 - Harry Fielder (a frequent uncredited extra player in Doctor Who) was born.

May

 * 18 - Ray Lonnen was born.
 * 28 - Frank Cox was born.
 * 31 - Peter Mayock (Ibrahim Namin in TV: Pyramids of Mars and Solis in TV: The Deadly Assassin) was born.

June

 * 4 - David Collings was born.
 * 7 - Ronald Pickup, who played the physician in TV: The Reign of Terror, was born in Chester, England.
 * 8 - Carole Ann Ford, who portrayed Susan Foreman, was born.
 * 21 - David Calderisi (Charlie in TV: The Mind of Evil) was born.

July

 * 7 - Ringo Starr, who appeared as himself, one of The Beatles in TV: The Chase, was born in Liverpool.
 * 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, who voiced Mims in AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth, was born.
 * 28 - Brigit Forsyth was born.
 * 31 - Louise Pajo (Gia Kelly in TV: The Seeds of Death) was born.

August

 * 9 - Bernard Holley was born.
 * 18 - Barry Justice, who played King Charles IX in TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, was born in Lucknow, India.
 * 25 - John J. Carney, who played Bloodaxe in TV: The Time Warrior, was born.

September

 * 3 - Pauline Collins, who played Samantha Briggs in TV: The Faceless Ones and Victoria in TV: Tooth and Claw, was born in Exmouth, Devon, England.
 * 10 - David Mann (a cover artist for Pinnacle Books' Americanised Doctor Who novelisations) was born.

October

 * 9 - John Lennon, who appeared as himself, as one of The Beatles in TV: The Chase, was born in Liverpool.
 * 12 - Gawn Grainger (George Stephenson in TV: The Mark of the Rani) was born.
 * 29 - Angela Douglas (Doris Lethbridge-Stewart in TV: Battlefield) was born.

November

 * 1 - Yvonne Antrobus was born.
 * 13 - Wally K Daly was born.
 * 17 - William Simons was born.
 * 24 - Alan Lake (Herrick in TV: Underworld) was born.

December

 * 11 - Tony Adams, who played Elgin in TV: The Green Death, was born.
 * 15 - Pennant Roberts was born.
 * 27 - Paul Joyce (director of TV: Warriors' Gate) was born.

Unknown date

 * Mark Heath, who played Ralph in TV: The Moonbase, was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
 * Barry Stanton was born.
 * Ben Howard was born.
 * John Gregg was born.
 * Neville Smith was born.