October 7th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1904 - Betty Bowden (Meg Seeley in Spearhead from Space)
1920 - Will Stampe (First Man in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)
1929 - Tony Beckley (Harrison Chase in The Seeds of Doom)
1973 - Rad Kaim (Trepper in The Sontaran Stratagem)
Deaths
1983 - Roy Pearce (Guard in The Mutants and an extra in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, The Tenth Planet, The Faceless Ones, Fury from the Deep, The Invasion, The War Games, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Dæmons, The Sea Devils, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Death to the Daleks, Planet of the Spiders, Robot, The Android Invasion, The Masque of Mandragora and Image of the Fendahl) aged 49
2008 - Peter Copley (Doctor Warlock in Pyramids of Mars) aged 93
2011 - George Baker (Login in Full Circle) aged 80
Episodes
1967 - The Abominable Snowmen, Episode Two: 6.0 million viewers
1978 - The Pirate Planet, Part Two: 7.4 million viewers
Releases
1989 - Once in a Lifetime (Marvel's The Incredible Hulk Presents)
1991 - The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks and The Deadly Assassin (VHS)
1996 - The Green Death (VHS)
2003 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Talons of Weng-Chiang (DVD - region 1)
2005 - Endgame (Panini Comics UK)
2010 - Demon Quest, Part Two ('The Demon of Paris') (AudioGO); issue 187 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 188 (Big Finish Productions)
Behind-the-Scenes
1994 - Robert deLaurentis submitted the first draft of his proposed storyline for the TV Movie
2001 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy took place
2007 - Recording of the BBC Children in Need special Time Crash took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Justice of Jalxar took place
2013 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Starborn took place
2016 - Recording of the Big Finish box set The First Doctor: Volume Two took place