May 21st: Today in WHO-story
Births
1917 - Frank Bellamy (Doctor Who illustrator for the Radio Times)
1932 - Jay Neill (Pikeman in The Masque of Mandragora, Silvey in The Invisible Enemy and Klimt in Underworld; extra in The Enemy of the World, Doctor Who and the Silurians and Colony in Space)
1941 - Carl Rigg (Varlik in The Power of Kroll)
1974 - Juliet Cowan (Chrissie Jackson [The Sarah Jane Adventures]; Bryer & Beauvais in the Big Finish audio anthology You Are the Doctor and Other Stories)
1985 - Calvin Dean (Ha-Ha in Nightmare in Silver and Chris in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Gift)
Deaths
1995 - Peter Rutherford (Roth in The Sontaran Experiment) aged 58
2011 - Bill Hunter (extra in The Ark) aged 71
Episode
1966 - The Gunfighters, Episode Four ('The O.K. Corral): 5.7 million viewers
2005 - The Empty Child: 7.11 million viewers
2011 - The Rebel Flesh: 7.35 million viewers
Introductions
2005 - John Barrowman MBE's debut as new companion Jack Harkness
Releases
1981 - The Doctor Who Programme Guide (Target Books)
1987 - The Doctor Who Fun Book (Target Books)
2009 - Issue 116 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2015 - Suburban Hell (Big Finish Productions); City of Death (BBC Books)
Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - Jon Pertwee signed a contract for his first year as the Third Doctor
2008 - Official confirmation that Russell T. Davies was to step down as Doctor Who's lead writer & executive producer and that Steven Moffat was to take over
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Doomwood Curse took place