May 1st: Today in WHO-story
Births
1918 - James Copeland (Selris in The Krotons)
1937 - Una Stubbs (Flo in the Big Finish audio Horror of Glam Rock)
1946 - Joanna Lumley (Alternative Thirteenth Doctor in the Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death); Hugh Spight (Dalek in Remembrance of the Daleks)
1963 - Stefan Schwartz (Knight Commander in Battlefield)
1971 - Mike Lambert (stunt performer on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
1987 - Matt di Angelo (Fitz Kreiner [Eighth Doctor companion])
Deaths
1985 - George Pravda (Alexander Denes in The Enemy of the World, Jaegar in The Mutants and Spandrell in The Deadly Assassin) aged 65
2002 - John Nathan-Turner (Doctor Who producer [1980-1989]) aged 54
2008 - Bernard Archard (Bragen in The Power of the Daleks and Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars) aged 91
Episodes
1965 - The Space Museum, Episode Two ('The Dimensions of Time'): 9.2 million viewers
1971 - Colony in Space, Episode Four: 8.1 million viewers
2010 - Flesh and Stone: 8.49 million viewers
Documentaries
2010 - Doctor Who Confidential: Blinded By the Light
Releases
1980 - Issue 30 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1997 - Oh No It Isn't (Virgin Books)
2000 - The Space Age and Grave Matters (BBC Books)
2003 - Issue 330 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK); I, Who 3 (Mad Norwegian Press)
2006 - The Christmas Invasion and New Earth (DVD - region 2)
2008 - Issue 62 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); In-Flight Entertainment (online comic strip); issue 395 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini); 3D Monster Masks, Mini-Monster Sticker Book and A Tale of Two Time Lords Sticker Guide (Penguin Character Books)
2013 - Smoke and Mirrors (Big Finish Productions and AudioGO); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 16 (Big Finish)
2014 - Issue 473 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 118 (Big Finish)
2017 - The Evil of the Daleks (Obverse Books)
Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - David Whitaker was commissioned to write The Carriers of Death, later retitled The Ambassadors of Death
1974 - The regeneration scene from the Third Doctor into the Fourth Doctor was recorded
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Wrong Doctors took place