1959

1959 was a year.

Dated
In October of 1959, the Soviet Union launched the unmanned probe Lunik 3, which successfully took the first photos of the far side of the Moon. (PROSE: Imperial Moon)

Undated
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond visited the Blue Boar service station on the newly opened M1 motorway and encountered Petrolions. (COMIC: Madness on the M1!)

A Nostalgia Tours tourist vessel carrying mostly Navarino travelled to Earth. Its destination was Disneyland but it landed at a Welsh holiday camp. In addition to the Navarinos, it carried the last of the Chimeron, fleeing the Bannermen. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen)

Circa this date, an alien species landed on the Moon and tried to contact Earth, requesting an exchange of information. The American government intercepted the message and began preparations for a moon landing to meet them. (PROSE: Blue Moon)

Sarah Jane and Lavinia Smith lived in Wolfenden. Lavinia was working together with Eddison Clough and they were close friends. Later that year Sarah Jane and Lavinia's memories were erased by Mrs Hendricks, an alien from the Tristian Cluster. (AUDIO: The White Wolf)

A scientist, Professor Egen, illegally created a time machine despite attempts by the authorities to stop his work. However, after a trip to the far future of humanity, he was returned to his home time by an unknown force which destroyed his machine and erased his memories of what he had seen. (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales)

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a successful panel game for archaeology experts that ran on British television from 1952 to 1959. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac)

Alternate timelines
In a parallel universe in which Great Britain was a fascist state known as the Republic of Great Britain, the Republican Security Forces battled the Bannermen in Wales, from whom they obtained artificial gravity and fast drive technology. (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)

In an alternate timeline where the British government was experimenting with augmenting apes with Cyber-Technology, Ace was killed by George Limb in 1959. (PROSE: Loving the Alien)

A time eddy placed a century of Roman soldiers in the middle of Piccadilly Circus, where they killed 300 civilians out of self-defence. The Ninth Doctor later aborted the timeline by stopping the time eddies before they could be created. (AUDIO: Sphere of Freedom)

In a timeline negated by the Eleventh Doctor, Peter Porter disappeared into Swallow Woods in 1959. His disappearance led to his niece Ruby Porter joining the police. (PROSE: The Way Through the Woods)

Dated
On 11 November, Catherine Parsons was born. (PROSE: The Stone House)

Undated
Emma-Louise Cowell's father died at the age of 48. (TV: Out of Time)