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On 3 March 1215, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, and Vislor Turlough arrived in England. (TV: The King's Demons)

On this day in 1981, Sebastian, the first Scion created by the Juniper Project, was created by Elena Hilda Al-Qatari. He had been born to be a solider, but, as they found out, he had no killing instinct. (PROSE: First Born)

On 3 March 2066, Captain Karl Taylor was sent to investigate mysterious alien signals from Earth's moon, but the sights and sounds of the alien "city" he encountered were entirely incomprehensible to human perceptions. Taylor ordered his people to open fire, apparently fearing they were under attack. This was the start of a war between the alien Myloki and PRISM, the secret organisation created to fight the invaders. The Myloki attacked by transforming ordinary humans into their puppets. Most were merely drone-like zombies known as Shiners, but two were different. One was Captain Taylor, who was sent back to Earth as a walking, indestructible, reanimated corpse — an emotionless killing machine. The other was Captain Grant Matthews, who was killed and duplicated while on a routine escort mission. His duplicate was caught and deprogrammed of his Myloki conditioning and, like Taylor, was literally indestructible. (PROSE: The Indestructible Man)

Behind the scenes

• 1924 - Actor John Woodnutt was born.
• 1930 - Actress Shirley Cooklin was born.
• 1945 - Actor Michael Ladkin was born.
• 1968 - Scientist Brian Cox was born.
• 1973 - Episode two of Frontier in Space was first broadcast on BBC1.
• 1973 - Part one of TV Comic story The Glen of Sleeping was first released in issue one hundred and seven.
• 1977 - Actress Sarah Smart was born.
• 1992 - Actor Robert Beatty died.
• 2003 - The Aztecs was released on Region 1 DVD.
• 2004 - Actress Sheila Dunn died.
• 2005 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Three's a Crowd completed at The Moat Studios and recording for The Wasting continued.
• 2008 - A new DVD edition of The Five Doctors was released in Region 2. This version included the remastered version previously issued on VHS and DVD and the first DVD release of the original 1983 version of the story. A commentary by David Tennant was included as an Easter egg in the set - the first time a Doctor other than the one featured in the story provided commentary.
• 2009 - DVD box set The Key to Time - Special Edition, containing The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor, was first released in Region 1.
• 2009 - The BBC announced that outgoing Doctor Who executive producer Julie Gardner would join the Los Angeles branch of BBC Worldwide in June 2009, serving as executive producer of American-market projects.
• 2010 - BBC Video announced that the first DVD release of episodes from series 5, scheduled for issue in the UK in June 2010, will be titled Series Five, Volume 1. This was the first indication that numbering would continue as with the RTD era.
• 2011 - The Ark was released on Region 4 DVD.
• 2011 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Doomsday Quatrain completed.