24 October

24 October was a date.

In 1926, the magician and escape artist Harry Houdini collapsed on stage. He died a week later from unknown causes. A guide for time travellers suggested possible alien interference. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

In 1930, 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)

In 1975, almost every working-age woman in Iceland went on strike to protest for wages equal to men's. The country ground to a halt, and not just because there were thousands marching in the streets. In the midst of this, Kyla, a girl in Reykjavik who had accidentally blown up her boarding school's chemistry lab using the ambionic stabiliser from Jefred's crashed ship, found it increasingly difficult to control the stabiliser. With the help of the Eighth Doctor, Charlotte Pollard, Audacity Montague, Jefred, and her teacher Mrs Gunnar, she stopped the chaos she was causing and gave Jefred the stabiliser so he could return to Xefora 7. (AUDIO: Women's Day Off)

In 1981, a newspaper article by Ashley O'Brian reported that the "Welsh Assembly Denies [UFO] Conspiracy". Reportedly, the public thought that governments were working with these aliens, including Wales' own Ieuan Wyn Jones. (TV: The New World)

In 2008, the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller encountered Autons in Thorington, Uzbekistan. (AUDIO: Brave New Town)

In 2010, the alien Eve was living in a funfair in Ealing and, along with her adoptive father and boyfriend, took off in her ship. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)