December 19th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1913 - Simon Lack (Professor Kettering in The Mind of Evil and Zadek in The Androids of Tara)
1915 - Lewis Griefer (writer of the original storyline for Pyramids of Mars)
1923 - Elwyn Jones (co-writer of The Highlanders)
1942 - Ian Talbot (Travis in Doctor Who and the Silurians and Klout in The Leisure Hive)
1943 - Sam Kelly (Big Finish Productions - Eugene Tacitus in The Holy Terror and Acheron in Return to the Web Planet)
1961 - Matthew Waterhouse (Adric [Fourth & Fifth Doctors' companion]; himself in the 50th anniversary spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot)
Deaths
1976 - Peter Ducrow (Guard in Fury from the Deep) aged 59
1978 - Duncan Lamont (Dan Galloway in Death to the Daleks) aged 60
2000 - Basil Tang (Office Foreman in Marco Polo and an extra in The Faceless Ones, The Mind of Evil, Day of the Daleks and The Talons of Weng-Chiang) aged 87
2002 - Alan Johns (Ted Rogers in The Tomb of the Cybermen)
2005 - Don McKillop (Bert in The Dæmons) aged 76
2009 - Donald Pickering (Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus, Blade in The Faceless Ones and Beyus in Time and the Rani) aged 76
2017 - Jeremy Wilkin (Kellman in Revenge of the Cybermen) aged 87
Episodes
1964 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode Five ('The Walking Ally'); 11.4 million viewers
2013 - Strax Field Report: The Doctors (online mini-episode)
Releases
1996 - Issue 247 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2011 - Doctor Who Official Soundtracks: Series 6 (Silva Screen Records)
2012 - Issue 299 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); Houdini and the Space Cuckoos, Part Two (online short story)
2013 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Missing Episodes - The Second Doctor Volume Two (Panini Comics UK); The Dying Light (Big Finish)
2014 -
Behind You, Part One (online short story)
Behind-the-Scenes
2002 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Nekromanteia took place
2008 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Venus Mantrap took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Ravenous 1 took place