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History of the Doctor Who Universe

 * The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones arrive in Edinburgh. (TDA: The Many Hands)
 * Poet Robert Burns is born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Second Doctor will quote one of Burns's poems to his companion Jamie McCrimmon, before remembering that Burns was a bit after Jamie's native year of 1746 (DW: The Underwater Menace)