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1 February in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

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1 February was a date.

Events

On Jackie Tyler's 40th birthday in 2007, the Doctor's TARDIS fell into Pete's World, where it nearly died. With twenty-four hours before the TARDIS could return to its home universe, Rose Tyler discovered a living version of her dad, Pete Tyler, alive and a successful businessman. To meet her "father", Rose snuck, with the Tenth Doctor, into the birthday party of that reality's Jackie Tyler. The President of Great Britain forbade the use of John Lumic's new cybernetic lifeform, but Lumic ignored him. Mickey Smith, mistaken for his parallel self, Ricky Smith, was taken by the Preachers, who fought Lumic. The cybernetic life, dubbed Cybermen, attacked Jackie's party, killing most of those inside, including the President. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Tom MacRae, adapted from Spare Parts (Marc Platt), Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006)., PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Chris Farnell, BBC Children's Books (2020).)

Births and deaths

In 1851, Mary Shelley, a former companion of the Eighth Doctor, died. (PROSE: Managra [+]Stephen Marley, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

In 1956, Sarah Jane Smith was born. (PROSE: The Roving Reporter [+]Kevin W. Parker, DWM short stories (Marvel Comics UK, 1992).) Other accounts dated her birth to an unspecified day in 1951. (TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).)

In 1967, Jackie Tyler and her Pete's World counterpart were born, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Tom MacRae, adapted from Spare Parts (Marc Platt), Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).) as was another Jackie from a third universe. (AUDIO: The Endless Night [+]Jonathan Morris, The Dimension Cannon (Rose Tyler, Big Finish Productions, 2019).) Cuba Gooding, Jr. shared the same birthday, but was one year younger. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Tom MacRae, adapted from Spare Parts (Marc Platt), Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)

Other

In 1918, 1 February was the first date skipped in Russia's transition from the Julian to Gregorian calendars. Cousin Anastasia incorporated it into the Thirteen-Day Republic. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

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