20 January

Events

 * 1941 - Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato met the real Jack Harkness at The Ritz in Cardiff. (TW: Captain Jack Harkness) A younger version of "Captain Jack" was in London on the very same night. According to a detailed search of UK records performed by Gwen Cooper's police colleague, Yvonne, Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty on the morning of 21 January 1941, and he was never heard from again. (TW: Everything Changes) This mostly likely indicated that Jack's first encounter with the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler (DW: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances) occurred on the evening of the 20th January.

Behind the scenes

 * 1902 - Stephen Jack (John Farrel in DW: Terror of the Autons) was born.
 * 1930 - Henry Woolf (The Collector in DW: The Sun Makers) was born.
 * 1934 - Tom Baker, who portrayed the Fourth Doctor, was born in Liverpool, England.
 * 1950 - Liza Goddard (Kari in DW: Terminus) was born.
 * 1968 - Episode 5 of DW: The Enemy of the World was first broadcast.
 * 1970 - Mitch Benn (Raynar and Karnex in BFA: Army of Death) was born.
 * 1973 - Episode 4 of DW: The Three Doctors was first broadcast.
 * 1979 - Part 1 of DW: The Armageddon Factor was first broadcast.
 * 1984 - Part 2 of DW: The Awakening was first broadcast.
 * 1985 - Olivia Hallinan was born.
 * 1990 - John Maxim, who played Frankenstein's Monster in DW: The Chase and a Cyberman in The Moonbase (under the name 'John Wills'), died in Brighton.
 * 2008 - Kevin Stoney (Mavic Chen in DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen) died.
 * 2010 - Ian Scoones died.