1969 1969 was the year that Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) According to some accounts , this year saw several events which led to the formation of UNIT by 1975 . ( PROSE : " The Forgotten Son " et al ) However , other accounts indicate that UNIT had been formed before 1969 and that the Third Doctor ' s exile on Earth began in this year . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " et al ) Dated events . January - June . On 3 January , the Revolution Man attacked the US Air Force base in High Racoon , destroying its B - 52 Bomber s and carving his symbol on the side of the blacktop . Following this , the US Defence Forces went onto DEFCON Two . On 4 January , the Washington Post reported on the Revolution Man attack of the previous day . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) On 30 January , the Beatles performed an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple Records building on Abbey Road in London . Ace prevented the killing of John Lennon during this concert . Huitzilin had hoped to feed upon the psychic energy released by the violence . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones attempted to witness the concert but ended up in 1669 instead . ( COMIC : " Black Death White Life " ) For several weeks in February , ( PROSE : " The Forgotten Son " ) the Great Intelligence invaded London through the Underground with an army of Robot Yeti . It manifested itself as a dangerous web which could mind control those that touched it . As the Yeti spread the web , the city was evacuated and the British Army were called in to deal with it . ( TV : " The Web of Fear " ) In late February , ( PROSE : " The Forgotten Son " ) the Second Doctor was brought to London along with his companions Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield by the Intelligence so that the Intelligence could absorb the Doctor ' s mind . Albert Arnold was possessed and used to bring the Doctor to the mind - absorbing machine , but the process was interrupted by the Doctor ' s companions and his newfound allies Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart and Anne Travers . The Intelligence ' s control sphere s were smashed and it dissipated , leaving London safe once again . ( TV : " The Web of Fear " ) In early March , the British government cleaned up London to remove evidence of the invasion . Hundreds of corpses were taken to various morgue s and the Yeti and control spheres were taken to the Vault . On 12 March , two weeks after the London Event , all traces of the invasion had been removed . The evacuated began returning and all traffic in and out of the city was back to normal . In mid - March , a version of the Great Intelligence many centuries older than the one that the invaded London the previous month was accidentally awoken from a its hibernation in Remington Manor by Owain Vine . The Intelligence was in a severely weakened near - death state and it used the little power it had to reach out to other fragments of itself and bring them to Remington Manor . It took control of Albert Arnold ' s corpse and made Arnolds bring Alistair Lehtbridge - Stewart ' s mother Mary Gore to the Manor . It also made the employees at the Vault bring all of the technology collected from the London Event to the Manor , including the Yeti and the mind - absorbing device . Alistair followed his mother to the Manor and confronted the Intelligence just before it tried to regain its strength by absorbing Mary , Arnold , and Owain . He disrupted the process by shooting Arnold , destroying the link to the younger Intelligence and utterly destroying the older Great Intelligence . ( PROSE : " The Forgotten Son " ) On 8 April , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy Pond , Rory Williams , River Song and Canton Everett Delaware III were hired by President Richard Nixon to investigate a young girl who kept phoning him . The Doctor traced her to a building in Florida . River and Rory discovered a passageway of ancient caves , populated with aliens whom they would forget about once they looked away . Amy shot the astronaut , thinking it was the one who would kill a future version of the Doctor in 2011 ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) , though the little girl inside the suit survived . The suit served as a life support . The group eventually went on the run for several months , uncertain of how to fight these aliens . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) On 18 May , the Eighth Doctor , Sam Jones and Fitz Kreiner confronted the Revolution Man at Wembley Stadium . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) July . In July , after spending months on the run , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Roy feigned capture , while River leapt out of a building to be caught by the TARDIS , continuing their plot to take down the aliens whom they would forget about when they turned away . Canton captured one of these creatures , who claimed to be of the Silence . The Doctor interrogated it . The Doctor and River discovered the girl who had contacted Nixon had escaped from the astronaut suit . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) On 16 July , the " Saturn V " rocket that held the " Apollo 11 " pod on its mission to the Moon was launched from the Kennedy Space Center . The Tenth Doctor watched this launch from the ground . Meanwhile , after " Apollo " had picked up a visual of unidentified objects , the secret agents , Spencer and Milledge , took command of Mission Control . On 17 July , the Doctor told off the agents for hiding an alien species ' transmission just so they could " pervert a pure and innocent gesture of faith into a weapon " to win the Cold War with . The Doctor , after recording the signal at Mission Control with a dictaphone to use for later , surrendered himself to the agents . The agents knocked the Doctor out and locked him in an office . ( PROSE : " Blue Moon " ) On 20 July , Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon , landing in the " Apollo 11 " pod . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " , " Blue Moon " ) the Tenth Doctor escaped his imprisonment inside Mission Control with the help of Mission Commander Cliff Boxworth . The Doctor created a visualisation of the alien language , of which an alien species had been transmitting in to contact humanity and share its knowledge , and used the symbols the TARDIS translated to get the species ' attention . Before the " Apollo 11 " landing , the Doctor asked the aliens not to contact humanity , telling them that humanity needed to find their own way . Afterwards , the Doctor watched from a distance as Neil put his first steps on the Moon . ( PROSE : " Blue Moon " ) Meanwhile , the Eleventh Doctor secretly attached a video of one of the Silence saying human s should kill them all on sight to the broadcast of the Moon landing , causing every person who watched the landings to post - hypnotically attack the Silence . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) The Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot played on the beach on the Isle of Wight while most people were inside watching the moon landing . ( PROSE : " One Small Step " ) Martha Jones later claimed she and the Tenth Doctor had seen the event four times . ( TV : " Blink " ) Circa the Moon landing , the Tenth Doctor , Martha Jones and Billy Shipton arrived in London after being touched by Weeping Angel s in 2007 . Working with future information given to him by Sally Sparrow , the Doctor contacted Shipton and the elderly Kathy Nightingale to arrange for messages to be passed on to Sparrow in 2007 , one of which was a message recorded by the Doctor . ( TV : " Blink " ) August & September . Between 9 and 10 August , followers of Charles Manson murdered actor Sharon Tate and others in what would become known as the Helter Skelter killings . The Seventh Doctor theorised Huitzilin influenced the killings after his plot to have John Lennon killed in London had failed . Between 15 and 17 August , the Woodstock Music Festival was held in Woodstock , New York . The Doctor attended the festival twice in two incarnations . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) In September , James Stevens married Natasha Stevens at the Chelsea Registry Office . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) On 29 September , the Revolution Man cult were arrested after holding a pop festival in East Worldham . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) October - December . On 24 December , a ceasefire was held in Vietnam for Christmas . The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited Saigon , where they learned that an alien had crash landed in the area . ( PROSE : " Interesting Times " ) Undated events . After serving many years in prison for war crimes , Oskar Steinmann was released due to health problems . ( PROSE : " Just War " ) Great Britain readied its Mars Probe s . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) The Slakkenkind crashed on Earth having escaped a death sentence set by the Hunter . The Tenth Doctor and Heather McCrimmon arrived , as did the Hunter . The Hunter and the Slakkenind had a showdown as they both threatened the peace of humanity . The Doctor captured the Slakkenkind and they were taken back to their death sentence . ( COMIC : " The Slakken Cat " ) The Second Doctor , John and Gillian encountered the Zagbor s in London . ( COMIC : " The Zombies " ) A young woman was abducted by the Sisters of St Matilda . ( AUDIO : " The Cloisters of Terror " ) The house at 39 Bannerman Road was demolished . ( AUDIO : " The Ghost House " )