February 10th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1924 - Terence Brook (Braun in Planet of Evil and an extra in The King's Demons and Frontios)
1927 - Barry Newbery (designer on An Unearthly Child, Marco Polo, The Aztecs, The Crusade, The Time Meddler, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Ark, The Gunfighters, The Dominators, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Brain of Morbius, The Masque of Mandragora, The Invisible Enemy and The Awakening)
1928 - John Ringham (Tlotoxl in The Aztecs and the DVD-exclusive mini-episode Making Cocoa, Josiah Blake in The Smugglers and Robert Ashe in Colony in Space)
1932 - Barrie Ingham (Paris in The Myth Makers and Alydon in the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks)
1939 - Peter Purves (Steven Taylor [First Doctor companion]; Morton Dill in The Chase and the First Doctor in Big Finish Productions' audio adventures)
1945 - Conrad Asquith (PC Quick in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot)
1947 - Michael Keating (Goudry in The Sun Makers; Big Finish actor - Major Koth in The Twilight Kingdom, Inspector Chardalot in Year of the Pig, Calvert in The Evil One and Kreekpolt in the Graceless story The End)
1958 - Bridget Lynch-Blosse (Natasha in Revelation of the Daleks)
1970 - Robert Shearman (writer of Dalek and several Doctor Who-related books and audio adventures)
Deaths
2005 - Leonard Trolley (Reynolds in The Faceless Ones) died aged 87
2017 - Carl Conway (US Correspondent in The War Machines and Control Room Assistant in The Ambassadors of Death) died aged 95
Episodes
1968 - The Web of Fear, Episode Two: 6.8 million viewers
1973 - Carnival of Monsters, Part Three: 9.0 million viewers
1979 - The Armageddon Factor, Part Four: 8.6 million viewers
1996 - The Ghosts of N-Space, Part Four (BBC Radio 2)
Releases
1983 - Issue 74 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2000 - Issue 288 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2005 - The Audio Scripts: Volume Four (Big Finish)
2011 - The Jade Pyramid (AudioGO); issue 204 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 431 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 41 (Big Finish)
2016 - Torchwood: More Than This (Big Finish); issue 6 of Tenth Doctor Year Two (Titan Comics)
2017 - Sins of the Father (Titan Comics); A Clockwork Iris and Tales of the Civil War (Obverse Books)
Behind-the-Scenes
1981 - John Nathan-Turner sent a memo to costume designer Colin Lavers to request question marks to be added to the Fifth Doctor's costume
1999 - The recovery of the first episode of The Crusade ('The Lion') was discussed on The National Lottery Amazing Luck Stories
2006 - Shooting scripts for The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit were prepared
2011 - Recording for Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Hexagora took place
2013 - Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman recorded a special mini-episode for the BAFTA ceremoney