1962 On 10 October 1962 , the British Intelligence operative Edward Grainger travelled to Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin to meet an agent who was preparing to cross the Berlin Wall from East Germany . ( PROSE : " Checkpoint " ) The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October of 1962 . ( PROSE : " Heart of TARDIS " ) Fear of impending nuclear war kept Barbara Wright awake at night during the crisis . ( AUDIO : " 1963 " ) Coal Hill School gave special air raid warning lessons to deal with the emergency . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " ) Section Eight used the dark arts to end the Cuban Missile Crisis . ( PROSE : " Heart of TARDIS " ) Peri Brown ' s parents , Janine and Paul Brown , were married on 21 November . ( AUDIO : " Peri and the Piscon Paradox " ) 23 November 1962 was James Stevens ' seventeenth birthday . On that day , he learned that he had been adopted . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) That same day , the Fifth , Sixth and Seventh Doctor s piloted their TARDISes back to Bob Dovie ' s house at 59A Barnsfield Crescent in Totton , Hampshire ( crashing it into his chimney ) to stop the conceptual bomb that would place the next year from going off . ( AUDIO : " The Light at the End " ) Around this time , a Dalek soldier , a survivor of the Last Great Time War , fell through time and crashed like a meteorite " on the Ascension Islands " . The Dalek lay in its burning crater for three days , screaming the entire time , before it was retrieved . Its weapon systems inactive and its outer armour heavily damaged , the Dalek was sold at private auction and passed through several hands over the next fifty years . ( TV : " Dalek " ) Benjamin Wainwright , the husband of the temporally displaced Kathy Nightingale , died at the age of 65 . ( TV : " Blink " ) The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler visited the village of Lower Downham and meddled in a plan to make the entire village disappear . ( PROSE : " No One Died " ) Professor Rachel Jensen began researching artificial intelligence at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge . ( AUDIO : " Threshold " ) Barbara Wright went on holiday to Toledo , Spain . ( AUDIO : " The Flames of Cadiz " ) David Walker stopped driving . ( AUDIO : " Eyes of the Master " ) Martin Tuck was born . ( AUDIO : " Iterations of I " ) Minnie Hooper was locked inside a police box , which spoiled her holiday . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Amy Pond and Rory Williams waited in Carnaby Street until the Eleventh Doctor arrived to pick them up . ( COMIC : " Bus Replacement TARDIS " ) Tom Wake ' s father died . ( PROSE : " The Hopes and Fears of All the Years " ) John Jones gave the first performance at Dog & Duck . ( COMIC : " What He Wants . . . " ) James was killed in an accident . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " ) Betty Callon died . ( PROSE : " Shroud of Sorrow " ) Alternate timeline . In an alternate timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II as a result of the Seventh Doctor and Ace accidentally leaving laser technology in Colditz Castle in October 1944 , Elizabeth Klein was conducting research at the University of Cambridge during this year , when she was recruited by Major Jonas Faber to study and unlock the secrets of alien technology stored in a bunker in Berlin . ( AUDIO : " Klein ' s Story " )