1930 In 1930 , due to the onset of the Great Depression , New York City ' s Central Park housed one of several tent cities called Hooverville , inhabited by the unemployed and homeless . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) Ramsay MacDonald was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in this year . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) Dated events . In June , the Fourth Doctor , K9 and Romana II arrived in London during a heatwave . ( PROSE : " The English Way of Death " ) On 14 July , the BBC broadcast a television adaptation of " The Man with the Flower in His Mouth " by Luigi Pirandello . This was the first television drama to be produced in the United Kingdom . ( PROSE : " The Wheel of Ice " ) On 4 October , the airship " R101 " left London , supposedly bound for Karachi in India . Aboard were two stowaways : the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard . On 5 October , shortly after its rendezvous with a Triskele spaceship , the " R101 " was attacked by a Vortisaur and crashed into the fields of northern France . All aboard were presumed killed ; in actuality , Charley and the Doctor had escaped on a Vortisaur , while Lord Tamworth stayed behind on the Triskele spaceship . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) On 24 October , the sentient anomaly known as Kappa 12 opened several singularities on Earth but was stopped by the Fourth Doctor and Nicholas Clement . ( PROSE : " The Northern Heights " ) On 1 November , the Cult of Skaro began their preparations for the Final Experiment , after having kidnapped human s to make them into a new race with human and Dalek DNA . Dalek Sec became a human - Dalek hybrid , and was later betrayed and killed by his colleagues for doing so . The Tenth Doctor turned the hybrid army created as part of this experiment against Daleks Thay and Jast , but Dalek Caan destroyed the race and escaped via temporal shift . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " / " Evolution of the Daleks " ) On 31 December , the Eighth Doctor and his companion Charley celebrated New Year ' s Eve in Singapore . ( AUDIO : " Seasons of Fear " ) Undated events . The Fourth Doctor visited the planet Tigella , where he saw the Dodecahedron and befriended the planet ' s leader , Zastor . Zastor remembered the Doctor as one who " can see the strings that bind the universe together and mend them when they break . " ( TV : " Meglos " ) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart was born in British India . ( PROSE : " Blood Heat " , " No Future " , " Island of Death " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Clara visited Baghdad in this year . On the way there , a sandstorm blew them off course and they met Amy Johnson . While the Doctor visited Omar the fez maker , Clara had a conversation with Amy in a hotel . They were pursued by members of the Howling Swarm , who were after the deserter Korgatta , who was hidden in the sandstorm . With the help of Flight Corporal Arnold Bradshaw , Korgatta grew large on the region ' s abundant oil and natural gas , and kidnapped the Doctor and Omar so that he could use the Doctor ' s knowledge of interdimensional travel . However , when Arnold realised that Korgatta was a deserter , he went mad and started punching him , making them both crash into an obstacle . Amy and Clara flew in to rescue them , and the Doctor convinced the Prime Mother of the Howling Swarm that Earth must be saved . ( COMIC : " A Wing and a Prayer " ) Sinead Iona Fleming was murdered by her husband Branwell Damien Fleming on Fleming ' s Island off the coast of Ireland . ( AUDIO : " Iterations of I " ) The earliest known ancestor of Bernice Summerfield , Jonah Summerfield I , was born . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) Future Russia n cosmonaut Anna Volokova was born . ( AUDIO : " Zone 10 " ) The population of Manhattan , New York City was 1 , 867 , 000 . ( TV : " The Gathering " )