May 2nd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1925 - Peggy Mount (Stallslady in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
1927 - Ray Barrett (Bennett in The Rescue); Esmond Webb (Sergeant-Major Burns in The War Games)
1939 - Peter Dean (extra in The Face of Evil)
1941 - Paul Darrow (Captain Hawkins in Doctor Who and the Silurians, Tekker in Timelash, Guidance in the Big Finish Productions audio The Next Life and Kaston Iago in Magic Bullet Productions' Doctor Who audio spin-off series Kaldor City)
1961 - Tom Arden (writer of the Telos Publishing novella Nightdreamers)
1963 - Esther Freud (Threst in Attack of the Cybermen)
1975 - Finlay Robertson (Larry Nightingale in Blink)
Deaths
1998 - Alan Viccars (extra in The Aztecs, The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, The Underwater Menace and Doctor Who and the Silurians) died
Episodes
1964 - The Keys of Marinus, Episode Four ('The Snows of Terror'): 10.4 million viewers
1970 - The Ambassadors of Death, Episode Seven: 6.4 million viewers
2003 - Shada, Episode One
Introductions
2003 - Launch of the webcast adaptation of Shada, a story originally written and partly-recorded in 1979. A co-production between Big Finish and the BBC, Paul McGann reprised the role of the Eighth Doctor (Tom Baker was reluctant to be involved with Big Finish at the time) and some scenes were added to explain the Eighth Doctor's presence rather than the Fourth Doctor
Releases
1973 - The Daleks (2nd paperback edition), The Zarbi (1st paperback edition) and The Crusaders (2nd paperback edition) (Target Books)
2002 - Issue 317 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2013 - Issue 318 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); issue 460 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
Behind-the-Scenes
1964 - The First Doctor doesn't appear in episode four of The Keys of Marinus ('The Snows of Terror') due to William Hartnell being on holiday during filming