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History of the Doctor Who Universe

 * 20th January - Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato meets the real Jack Harkness at The Ritz. (TW: Captain Jack Harkness)


 * 21st January- "The Empty Child," "The Doctor Dances"


 * 1st -6th March - "Just War"


 * 27th May - The German battleship Bismarck is sunk with a loss of 2200 crew members after engaging British warships in the North Atlantic. The Doctor may have witnessed the sinking ("Terror of the Zygons").


 * 2nd November - "The Way of All Flesh"


 * November - "Shadow"

March

 * 26 - Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer, who had a cameo as himself in The Stolen Earth is born in Nairobi, Kenya.

April

 * 9 - Hannah Gordon, who played Kirsty McLaren in "The Highlanders," is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

July

 * 28 - Patrick Tull, one of the voices of the Krotons in The Krotons is born in Sussex, England.

August

 * 4 - Martin Jarvis, who has appeared in several episodes of Doctor Who, is born in Cheltenham,  Gloucestershire, England.

October

 * 20 - Anneke Wills, who portrayed companion Polly Wright, is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

December

 * 24 - John Levene, who portrayed Sgt. Benton, is born John Anthony Woods in Salisbury, England.