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5 December in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

5 December

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A calendar showing December 1986. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

5 December was a date.

Events

On 5 December 1783, the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory arrived at St Christophe. (PROSE: Dead of Winter)

In 1872, the Mary Celeste was found abandoned. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary) Another account dated this to the previous day. (PROSE: The Chase)

In 1920, Kathy Nightingale, having been touched by the Weeping Angels in the 2000s,[nb 1] was transported to Hull on this date. Stranded, she established a new life for herself, eventually marrying Ben Wainwright and raising a family. (TV: Blink)

In 1933, Prohibition was repealed in the United States of America. A celebration of the repeal was held at Doc's Place in Chicago. (PROSE: Prelude Blood Harvest)

In 1952, the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane continued their opposition to Tommy Ramsey's mafia-esque grip on London and the Xhinn invasion of the city. Ramsey's violent tendencies reached their apex, as his men were in open war with rival gangs on this day. The Doctor's clock repair shop that he had been using for cover in the time period was still a smouldering ruin after Ramsey's deliberate arson the night before. (PROSE: Amorality Tale)

On Monday 5 December 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began in Alabama, in response to Rosa Parks' Thursday arrest. Across Montgomery, people refused to use the buses in protest. This ultimately led to a wider Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King. (TV: Rosa)

In 2021, the Sontarans' invasions plans was defeated by the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions. (TV: The Vanquishers)

Other

According to a calendar on the Snowcap base, 5 December 1986 was a Friday. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

Footnotes

  1. While Blink itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in 2007 and "twenty minutes to Red Hatching" a year later in 2008—as Kathy Nightingale's letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920", and the Tenth Doctor's side of his conversation with Sally Sparrow in 1969 happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the Redacted audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In Angels, Abby McPhail identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests 2009 as the year of the Red Hatching. In Salvation, the Thirteenth Doctor recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of Andy Proctor, who was last seen by his daughter Cleo "nearly 20 years" before 2022 according to Recruits.
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