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Timeline for 1967
20th century | 1960s

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1967 was a year.

Events

Dated

On 27 January, Earth's nations signed the Outer Space Treaty, which limited the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies for peaceful exploration. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

On 7 November, the Seventh Doctor, Ace, Markus Creevy and Lt Raina Kerenskaya attended the ceremony in Red Square in Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, where they saw Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, the first person and the first woman in space respectively, on the podium. The Doctor explained to Ace that the celebration of the October Revolution was held in November as Russia was still using the Julian calendar, which was eleven days behind the Gregorian calendar, in 1917. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)

Weeping Angel Extraction Squad

The Weeping Angel Extraction Squad in Medderton. (TV: Village of the Angels)

On 21 November, the Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, and Dan were brought to Medderton by a Weeping Angel who seized control of her TARDIS. (TV: Village of the Angels)

On 27 December, the Cave of Swallows was discovered. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Undated

The Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright visited San Francisco and battled the Goblin. (PROSE: Wonderland)

The magazine Metropolitan was launched. (PROSE: Amorality Tale)

Dodo Chaplet gave Steven Taylor a diary for this year, which she found in the TARDIS, on his birthday, 10 February. (AUDIO: Return of the Rocket Men)

Sean Connery played the title character in the James Bond film series, while his eventual successor Roger Moore starred in the television series The Saint. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)

Robin Yeadon visited London for the first time. (AUDIO: Nightshade)

The Japanese film King Kong Escapes was released. It featured a character named Dr. Who. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)

Torchwood Three agent Kenneth Valentine defected to the Soviet Union for financial reasons and was shot dead by Jack Harkness. (PROSE: Trace Memory)

Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. (PROSE: The Good Doctor)

According to one account, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, then a corporal, was recruited into UNIT. (TV: Survivors of the Flux) Other accounts stated that UNIT would not even be founded until the 1970s or 1980s, (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary) by which point Lethbridge-Stewart held the rank of colonel. (TV: The Invasion)

Other realities

In the original timeline, US President John F. Kennedy lived past 1963 and became a very inspirational figure of the 1960s. Enemy life-spores infected Kennedy during his second term in office and almost used the psychic energy surrounding him to rewrite Earth's history, but he died of a heart attack in 1967 before that could happen. An agent of the Great Houses erased this timeline by organising his assassination. (PROSE: The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A)

Births and deaths

Dated

On 1 February, Jackie Tyler was born on Pete's World, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) as was another Jackie in a parallel universe. (AUDIO: The Endless Night)

On 7 November, Raine Creevy was born in Moscow to Markus Creevy and Raina Kerenskaya. She was delivered by the Seventh Doctor. (AUDIO: Thin Ice)

Undated

Brendan Richards was born. (PROSE: K9 and Company)

Edmund Trevithick's daughter Paula and her husband were killed in a car accident in Crook Marsham. His granddaughter subsequently joined a hippie commune. (PROSE: Nightshade)

Other

The year of the Summer of Love, Jessica Willamy said that it was "when everything changed, forever. A time of beauty and decadence, haunting and so very sad." (PROSE: Wonderland)

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