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June 1926

A calendar showing June 1926. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)

4 June was a date.

Events

In 100 million BC, the Silurian Ark was launched. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

On Tuesday 4 June 1926, the cargo ship SS Bernice vanished on the Indian Ocean. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)

In 1940, the Battle of Dunkirk ended, and the last of the Allied soldiers were evacuated. (TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart)

One account placed the Judoon conducting their search for Florence Finnegan by moving Royal Hope Hospital onto the Moon on 4 June in an unspecified year. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters) Other accounts placed these events in March 2008 (AUDIO: Recruits) or 18 June 2007.[nb 1] (PROSE: The Paradox Moon)

Ares One lifted off from Earth at 11am EST on 4 June at some point in the early 21st century. (AUDIO: Red Dawn)

Behind the scenes

Page 120 of The Secret Lives of Monsters gives Sunday 4 June as the date of the events of Smith and Jones [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007). and the Royal Hope incident. However, it does not specify 2007 or 2008 as a current year. On top of this, the first two Sunday 4 Junes after 2004 (page 119 places the incident over 30 years after 1974) are in 2006 and 2017.

Footnotes

  1. The Sound of Drums dates the Year That Never Was as beginning five days after the events of Smith and Jones.
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