12 July

On 12 July 1674, Abigail Williams was born in Hadley, Massachusetts. She would be a key witness in the witch trials in Salem Village in 1692. (PROSE: The Witch Hunters)

In 1834, Charles Babbage hosted a technological exhibition, only for it to be disrupted by the appearance of the Thirteenth Doctor and the Spy Master, the latter of whom used his Tissue Compression Eliminator to murder several guests. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary, TV: ''Spyfall)

Ben Jackson met Polly Wright at the Inferno nightclub in Covent Garden in 1966. (TV: The War Machines)

In the early hours of 12 July, 1979, a Zalphon scout ship crashed into Skylab, and two Zalphon escape pods crash-landed on Earth, near the town of Esperance in Western Australia. (PROSE: Bennelong Point)