February 12th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1902 - George Cross (Minister in The War Machines)
1921 - Peter Whitaker (Inspector Gascoigne in The Faceless Ones and an extra in The Seeds of Death, The Mutants, Genesis of the Daleks, The Pirate Planet, Logopolis and Remembrance of the Daleks)
1934 - Annette Crosbie (Mrs. Angelo in The Eleventh Hour)
1945 - Gareth Thomas (Edwin Morgan in the Torchwood story Ghost Machine; Big Finish Productions actor - Kalendorf in Return of the Daleks and the Doctor Who spin-off Dalek Empire, Tamworth in Storm Warning and Astaroth Morax in Last of the Colophon)
1953 - Nabil Shaban (Sil in Vengeance on Varos, The Trial of a Time Lord and the Big Finish audios Mission to Magnus and Antidote to Oblivion)
1958 - Michael Fenton-Stevens (Big Finish actor - William Shakespeare in The Kingmaker, Brooks in The Raincoud Man, Moorson & Controller in Destroy the Infinite and Douglas Bell in The Carrionite Curse)
1978 - Gethin Jones (Himself in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Invasion of the Bane)
Deaths
2013 - Rod Beacham (Corporal Lane in The Web of Fear) aged 72
Episodes
1966 - The Massacre of Sr. Bartholomew's Eve, Episode Two ('The Sea Begger'): 6.0 million viewers
1972 - The Curse of Peladon, Episode Three: 7.8 million viewers
1977 - The Robots of Death, Part Three: 13.1 million viewers
Releases
1981 - Issue 50 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1987 - Issue 122 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1998 - Issue 262 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2009 - The Nemonite Invasion (BBC Audio); issue 102 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 5 (Big Finish)
2014 - Issue 339 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); Dark Eyes 2 (Big Finish)
2015 - Equilibrium and The Darkness of Glass (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - Terrance Dicks commissioned Robert Holmes to write Facsimile (later retitled Spearhead from Space)
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio I.D. took place
2011 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Epoch took place
2013 - Recording of the Big Finish audio 1963: The Assassination Games took place
2015 - Production began on The Magician's Apprentice took place