1984 The Sixth Doctor claimed that 1984 was " never as good as the book " of the same name by George Orwell . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) The 1984 Olympic Games , which were boycotted by the Soviet Union , were held in Los Angeles . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " , " The Gathering " ) According to one account , Martha Jones was born in this year . ( COMIC : " The Forgotten " ) Another account indicates she was born in 1986 . ( PROSE : " The Story of Martha " ) Indira Gandhi was serving as the Prime Minister of India during this year . As she told the Egypt ian Pharaoh Erimem , Peri Brown considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary Margaret Thatcher . Given that Erimem was from the 14th century BC , she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher . ( AUDIO : " The Eye of the Scorpion " ) In 1964 , Ken Temple believed that it would be possible to evacuate 1 % of the human population to Venus by this year if all of Earth ' s fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet . ( AUDIO : " The Pelage Project " ) Dated events . Peri Brown and Katherine Chambers graduated from high school in Fell ' s Point , Baltimore , Maryland . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) On 8 May , the Soviet Union withdrew from the 1984 Olympic Games . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) On 9 May , Turlough returned to Trion , Peri Brown joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and Kamelion was destroyed . ( TV : " Planet of Fire " , AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) Between 9 May and 28 September , Peri Brown ' s mother Janine and Howard Foster divorced . In spite of this , Janine kept her ex - husband ' s surname for the rest of her life . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) On 12 June , Harold and Alice Withers , the owners of Stockbridge ' s Green Dragon , were married . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) During the summer , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond encountered the Kin in Leadworth ( PROSE : " Nothing O ' Clock " ) On 28 September , the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown attended the funeral of Anthony Chambers in Fell ' s Point , Baltimore , Maryland . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) On 22 December , Ruby Sara Duvall was born . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) Undated events . The Fifth Doctor defeated the Malus in Little Hodcombe . ( TV : " The Awakening " ) H . C . Clements was bought by the Torchwood Institute . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) With the TARDIS caught inside a time corridor , the Fifth Doctor , Tegan Jovanka and Turlough arrived in London , where they encountered canisters of Movellan virus and duplicates of humans created by the Dalek s . They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator Davros in the future . After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the Dalek Civil War , Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year . Commander Lytton escaped from the future alive with his two police guards . ( TV : " Resurrection of the Daleks " ) Lucie Miller ' s maternal aunt Patricia Ryder , whom she called " Auntie Pat , " was killed by Zygon s and replaced by her Zygon husband Trevor . ( AUDIO : " Grand Theft Cosmos " ) Albert Marsden retire d . He and his wife Peggy subsequently bought a cottage in the north of England . ( AUDIO : " Protect and Survive " ) Ethel Merman died . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) A Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform killed three farmers in Wetwang . Its claws were found and stored at the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum . ( GAME : " Security Bot " ) There was a conflict in Ethiopia . ( AUDIO : " The Conspiracy " ) On Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart ' s orders , Major Whitaker and her UNIT team were sent to Reykjavik , Iceland to inspect caverns with Dr Iskander to find the cause of sudden seismic activity . They discovered that Dominator Haag and the Quark s were attempting to use the Earth ' s core as a power source for the Dominators ' star fleet . ( COMIC : " The Fires Down Below " ) Janet Rae Tanner was born . ( TV : " The Middle Men " ) Alternative timeline . In an alternative timeline , Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , was assassinated by her fellow Conservative Party politician Heathcliffe Bower . However , the proper timeline was restored by the Fifth Doctor . ( PROSE : " The Assassin ' s Story " )