January 1st: Today In WHO-Story
Births
1918 - Leonard Trolley (Reyolds in The Faceless Ones)
1930 - Mohammed Shamsi (extra in Carnival of Monsters)
1935 - Dave Martin (co-writer of The Claws of Axos, The Mutants, The Three Doctors, The Sontaran Experiment, The Hand of Fear, The Invisible Enemy, Underworld and The Armageddon Factor; co-creator of K9 and Omega)
1940 - Tony Wall (Napoleon Bonaparte in The Reign of Terror)
1950 - Hugh Hayes (Anithon in Time-Flight)
1954 - Richard Gibson (Mitchell in the Big Finish audio Flip-Flop)
1971 - Navin Chowdhry (Indra Ganesh in Aliens of London)
1974 - Clare Calbraith (Big Finish Productions - Maria in Son of the Dragon, a Trooper in Urban Myths and Orla in The Blood Furnace)
1975 - Andrea Lowe (Katie Russell in the Torchwood story Fragments)
1986 - Colin Morgan (Jethro Cane in Midnight)
Deaths
2003 - Cyril Shaps (John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen, Doctor Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death, Professor Herbert Clegg in Planet of the Spiders and the Archemandrite in The Androids of Tara) aged 79
2012 - Bob Anderson (Fighting Guard in The Enemy of the World) died aged 89
2014 - Billy McColl (Humker in The Trial of a Time Lord) aged 62
2015 - Fiona Cumming (assistant floor manager on The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve; production assistant on The Highlanders, The Seeds of Death and The Mutants; director of Castrovalva, Snakedance, Enlightenment and Planet of Fire; extra in Silver Nemesis) aged 77
Episodes
1966 - The Daleks' Master Plan, Episode Eight ('Volcano'): 9.6 Million Viewers
1972 - Day of the Daleks, Episode One: 9.8 Millions Viewers
1977 - The Face of Evil, Part One: 10.7 Million Viewers
2007 - Torchwood (double-bill): Captain Jack Harkness and End of Days: 1.23, 1.23 Million Viewers
2007 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane: 2.92 Million Viewers
2010 - The End of Time, Part Two: 12.27 Million Viewers
Documentaries
2007 - Torchwood Declassified (double-bill): Blast from the Past and To the End
2010 - Doctor Who Confidential: Allons-Y
Introductions
1972 - First appearance of the Ogrons
1977 - First appearance of Louise Jameson Official as new companion Leela
2007 - First episode of the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures
2010 - First glimpse of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor
Departures
2007 - Double-bill finale to the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood
2010 - David Tennant's final regular appearance as the Tenth Doctor
Releases
2011 - Iris Wildthyme: Enter Wildthyme (Obverse Books)
2013 - Hunters of Earth (Big Finish and AudioGO)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 153 (Big Finish)
2017 - The God Complex (Obverse Books)
Behind-the-Scenes
1960 - Hugh Greene began his position as the Director-General of the BBC, He'd later appoint Doctor Who producer Sydney Newman as Head of BBC Drama