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*[[1965]] - "The Dimensions of Time", episode 2 of [[DW]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'' was first broadcast on the BBC. | *[[1965]] - "The Dimensions of Time", episode 2 of [[DW]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'' was first broadcast on the BBC. | ||
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Revision as of 15:35, 8 May 2010
This date was celebrated as May Day in the United Kingdom and several other countries on the planet Earth.
Events
Doctor Who universe
- 1643 - The May Day celebration in Little Hodcombe turns especially bloody as the village's Queen of the May was burned at the stake, an event instigated by the Malus and recounted by Will Chandler to the Doctor in 1984. (DW: The Awakening)
- 1707 - The Act of Union formally unites Scotland and England as the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This was one of the events leading towards the Highlander Uprising in which Jamie McCrimmon will participate. (DW: The Highlanders)
- 1957 - The first Sputnik satellite was launched by the Soviet Union, but was destroyed before it completed its first orbit. Neither the launch nor the satellite's destruction was ever made public. (NA: First Frontier)
- Circa 1970s - The Master was finally captured by UNIT, but only temporarily. (DW: The Dæmons)
- 1984 - The events of (DW: The Awakening) occur on this date.
Real world
- 1923 - James Copeland, who played Selris in The Krotons, is born.
- 1946 - Joanna Lumley, who played the Thirteenth Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death, is born in Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
- 1965 - "The Dimensions of Time", episode 2 of DW: The Space Museum was first broadcast on the BBC.
- 1971 - Episode Four of DW: Colony in Space was first broadcast.
- 2002 - John Nathan-Turner died.
- 2006 - Series 2 was released on DVD in the UK with volume one containing DW: The Christmas Invasion and New Earth.
- 2008 - Bernard Archard died.
- 2010 - DW: Flesh and Stone, episode 5 of Series 5 was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC.
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