18th August 1951: Sarah Jane Smith’s parents die in a car accident after attending the village fete at Foxgrove, as we see in The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (SJA, 2008).
18th August 1941: start of the earlier timeline in Gary Russell’s 2008 Torchwood novel, The Quiet Streets (haven’t read it myself).
That Doctor Who article is like some throwback to 80s fandom. God forbid doctor Who should ever be fun or silly. The writer seems to want Who to be a Serious Sci-Fi Show, and that’s the last thing it should be.