1930

Events

Doctor Who Universe

June

• The Doctor, K-9 and Romana arrive in London during a heat wave. (MA: The English Way of Death)

October

• The airship R101 on which Charley Pollard stowed away, begins its maiden journey, only to crash, killing all aboard. (BFA: Storm Warning)

November

• Due to the onset of the Great Depression, New York City's Central Park houses one of several tent cities called Hooverville,inhabited by the unemployed and homeless. Remnants of the Cult of Skaro, having escaped to this year from the Battle of Canary Wharf begin abducting people in hopes of creating a Dalek-human hybrid. Dalek Sec becomes just such a hybrid, until he is killed by his colleagues. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)

Unknown dates

• The Doctor learns magic tricks from Maskelyne. (DW: The Ribos Operation)
• The Doctor visits the planet Tigella, where he sees the Dodecahedron and befriends the planet's leader, Zastor. Zastor remembers the Doctor as one who "can see the strings that bind the Universe together, and mend them when they break. (DW: Meglos)
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is born (NA: Blood Heat, No Future)

=Real World

January

• 1 - Mohammad Shamsi is born.
• 4 - Iain Cuthbertson is born.
• 24 - Terence Bayler, who played Yendom in The Ark and Major Barrington in The War Games is born in Wanganui, New Zealand.

February

• 23 - Writer Gerry Davis, a co-creator of the Cybermen, is born.

March

• 3 - Shirley Cooklin is born.
• 7 - Brian Hayles is born.

April

• 7 - Andrew Sachs is born.
• 11 - Ronald Fraser is born.
• 18 - Angus Lennie is born.

May

• 9 - Joan Sims is born.

June

• 4 - Lisa Daniely is born.

July

• 3 - Robert Robertson is born.
• 18 - Burt Kwouk is born.
• 30 - Alan Curtis is born.

August

• 8 - Writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks and Blake's 7 is born.
• 28 - Windsor Davies is born.

Clifford Earl, who played the station sergeant in "The Daleks' Master Plan" and Major Branwell in "The Invasion," is born in England.

September

• 1 - Emrys James is born.
• 24 - Angelo Muscat is born.

October

• 24 - Brian Peck is born.

November

• 14 - Michael Robbins, known for his portrayal of Richard Mace in The Visitation is born in London.
• 20 - Bernard Horsfall is born.

December

• 16 - Ronald Allen is born.

Unknown date

• Director Don Houghton is born.
• Edward Kelsey is born.
• Edward Brayshaw, who played Léon Colbert in The Reign of Terror and the War Chief in The War Games is born.
• Alan Haywood, who played Hector in The Myth Makers, is born.

1929

20th Century 1930s

1931