July 16th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1930 - Frances Pidgeon (Miss Jackson in The Hand of Fear and an extra in The Monster of Peladon; wife of Doctor Who director Lennie Mayne)
1931 - Robert Banks Stewart (writer of Terror of the Zygons, The Seeds of Doom and the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Foe from the Future)
1948 - David Sibley (Pralix in The Pirate Planet; Big Finish Productions - the Eminence in The Seeds of War, Destroy the Infinite and the Dark Eyes series, Kurt Shalik in Persuasion, Markus Shriver in the Dark Eyes series, Josiah Morton in The Morton Legacy, Valerian in the Gallifrey story Desperate Measures, the Manager in the Torchwood story The Dying Room and Vincent Parry in the Torchwood story Aliens Among Us)
1956 - Adrian Mills (Aris in Kinda)
Deaths
1997 - Hugh Martin (Munro in Terror of the Zygons and the Priest in Vengeance on Varos) aged 63
2003 - John Bleasdale (Robot in The Robots of Death) aged 57
2017 - Trevor Baxter (Professor George Litefoot in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Big Finish's Doctor Who and Jago & Litefoot audio adventures) aged 84
Episodes
1966 - The War Machines, Episode Four: 5.5 million viewers
Departures
1966 - Conclusion to the fourth series of the 'classic era of Doctor Who
Releases
2009 -
Blue Moon, Part One (online short story); issue 124 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 -
The Doctors Revisited: Part One (DVD - region 1)
2015 - Issue 4 of the relaunched Doctor Who Adventures (Panini Comics UK); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 129 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2007 - Recording of Big Finish's Dalek Empire story The Fearless took place
2008 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the stage show Seven Keys to Doomsday took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Feast of Axos took place
2012 - An announcement was made that the BBC Television Centre was sold to Stanhope PLC for £200,000,000; recording of the Big Finish audios The Evil One and The Child took place
2013 - Heathrow Airport hosted a summer-long event to commemorate Doctor Who's 50th anniversary; recording of the Big Finish audio Afterlife took place
2017 - Jodie Whittaker was officially announced as the Thirteenth Doctor