April 23rd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1904 - Leslie French (Mathematician in Silver Nemesis)
1921 - Gerald Champion (Wilkin in the untransmitted story Shada)
1922 - Jack May (General Hermack in The Space Pirates)
1961 - Art Wetherell (pencil artist for Doctor Who comic strips published in Death's Head and The Incredible Hulk Presents)
1968 - Ricky Groves (Markus Creevy in the Big Finish audios Thin Ice and Crime of the Century)
1974 - Verona Joseph (Penny Carter in Partners in Crime)
1987 - Kelly Gough (Rannus & Kharrus in the Class episode Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart)
Deaths
1975 - William Hartnell (First Doctor; Abbot of Amboise in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve) aged 67
1988 - Alan Judd (Dortmun in The Dalek Invasion of Earth) aged 78
1998 - Denis Goacher (Control Voice in The Macra Terror) aged 72
2010 - Eiji Kusuhara (extra in Four to Doomsday and Professor Toshio Shimura in the Big Finish audio Enemy of the Daleks) aged 63
2013 - Norman Jones (Khrisong in The Abominable Snowmen, Major Baker in Doctor Who and the Silurians and Hieronymous in The Masque of Mandragora) aged 80
Episodes
1966 - The Celestial Toymaker, Episode Four ('The Final Test'): 7.8 million viewers
2005 - World War Three: 8.98 million viewers
2011 - The Impossible Astronaut: 8.86 million viewers
2016 - Friend from the Future (mini-episode)
Documentaries
2005 - Doctor Who Confidential: Why on Earth?
2011 - Doctor Who Confidential: Coming to America; My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elizabeth Sladen (CBBC); Rewind (BBC America)
First Appearances
2011 - Launch of the sixth series of the 'revived era' of Doctor Who; first appearance of the Silents (sometimes referred to as the Silence)
Releases
2009 - Issue 112 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2014 - Issue 344 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
Behind-the-Scenes
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Chaos Pool took place
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Ringpullworld took place
2010 - Recording of Big Finish Productions' audio adaptation of Animal took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Acheron Pulse took place
2013 - Recording of the Big Finish/AudioGO story Enemy Aliens took place
2016 - Pearl Mackie was confirmed as new companion Bill Potts in an exclusive mini-episode Friend from the Future. An enhanced, re-edited version of this scene was used in The Pilot
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Time War-themed Doctor Who spin-offs The War Master: Only the Good and Gallifrey: The Time War Volume One took place