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7 February in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

7 February

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7 February was a day.

Events

On 7 February in 850,000 BC, somebody walked across some mud in Happisburgh, Norfolk. The discovery of their footprints was reported exactly 852,014 years later, when scientists declared them to be the oldest footprints by early humans ever found outside of Africa. A guide for time travellers advised visitors not to wear trainers. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

In 1987, an elderly Kathy Nightingale, who went by Wainwright, penned a letter for her friend, Sally Sparrow, to read. The younger version of Kathy would be transported back to 1920 by a Weeping Angel shortly after Kathy's grandson delivered Sally the letter in the 2000s.[nb 1] (TV: Blink)

Births and deaths

In 1894, Tommy Brockless was born in Manchester. (TV: To the Last Man)

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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