July 3rd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1924 - Michael Barrington (Sir Colin Thackeray in The Seeds of Doom)
1930 - Robert Robertson (Collinson in The Ambassadors of Death)
1936 - Robert Jerome (Cheerleader in The Macra Terror)
1938 - Sonia Markham (Doctor Who's make-up artist [1964-1966])
1942 - Richard Kerley (Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and a Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen)
1949 - Susan Penhaligon (Lakis in The Time Monster and Shayla in the Big Finish audio Primeval)
1958 - Charlie Higson (Writer of the Puffin Books ebook The Beast of Babylon)
Deaths
2001 - Delia Derbyshire (first arranger of the Doctor Who theme music) aged 64
2011 - Anna Massey (Madeleine Fairweather in the Big Finish audio The Girl Who Never Was) aged 73
2014 - Leonard Kingston (extra in The Smugglers, The Underwater Menace, The Macra Terror, Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Mind of Evil) aged 84
Episodes
1965 - The Time Meddler, Episode One ('The Watcher'): 8.9 million viewers
2009 - Torchwood: The Dead Line (BBC Radio 4)
Introductions
1965 - Peter Butterworth's debut as the 'Meddling Monk', Doctor Who's first Time Lord villain and the first Time Lord other than the Doctor and Susan to appear in Doctor Who
Releases
1980 - Issue 39 of Doctor Who Magazine, then known as Doctor Who Weekly (Marvel)
1995 - The Mark of the Rani and Time and the Rani (VHS)
1997 - Beyond the Sun (Virgin Books); issue 254 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2000 - The Ancestor Cell and Prime Time (BBC Books)
2008 - Doctor Who Files 13 & 14 (BBC Children's Books); issue 71 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Issue 324 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 21 (Big Finish Productions)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 63 (Big Finish)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 127 (Big Finish)
2017 - Pyramids of Mars (Obverse Books)