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Events

Doctor Who Universe

• The Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem visit America. (TN: Blood and Hope)

• The First Doctor, Vicki, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visit China. (PDA: The Eleventh Tiger)

• American President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. (NA: Christmas on a Rational Planet, BFA: Assassin in the Limelight)

• The first transatlantic telegraph cables are laid by Lord Kelvin. (MA: Evolution)

• American gunfighter and lawman Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) reaches the height of his notoriety. In the 20th century, he would be commemorated as a folk and western movie hero. In 1999, an employee of a hospital in San Francisco will obtain a Wild Bill Hickok costume to wear at a New Year's Eve party, but it will instead be appropriated by the newly regenerated Eighth Doctor, who will adopt it as his standard mode of dress. (DW: Doctor Who)