1 January

Events

This day was New Year's Day and the first day of the year on Earth.

1966 - The First Doctor's TARDIS departed Trafalgar Square, where it had arrived during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
2000 - The Eighth Doctor departed San Francisco, where he had landed two days before. (TV: Doctor Who) Jack Harkness became the leader of Torchwood Three following the death of Alex Hopkins. (TV: Fragments) The Fourth Doctor landed in Paris. (COMIC: The Forgotten)
2005 - A dying Tenth Doctor visited Rose Tyler before she had met him. The Doctor commented that she was "gonna have a great year", then saw a vision of Ood Sigma and stumbled back to the TARDIS and regenerated. (TV: The End of Time)

1918 - Leonard Trolley (Reynolds in TV: The Faceless Ones) was born.
1930 - Mohammad Shamsi (an extra in TV: Carnival of Monsters) was born.
1935 - Writer Dave Martin was born in Birmingham, England.
1950 - Hugh Hayes (Anithon in TV: Time-Flight) was born.
1966 - "Volcano", episode 8 of TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, was first broadcast.
1969 - Sophie Okonedo, the voice of companion Alison Cheney and who portrayed Elizabeth X, was born.
1972 - Episode One of TV: Day of the Daleks was first broadcast.
1977 - Part One of TV: The Face of Evil was first broadcast.
1986 - Colin Morgan (Jethro Cane in TV: Midnight) was born.
2003 - Cyril Shaps, who had appeared in TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Spiders and The Androids of Tara, died.
2007 - TV: Invasion of the Bane was first broadcast.
2007 - TV: Captain Jack Harkness was first broadcast.
2007 - TV: End of Days was first broadcast.
2010 - Part Two of TV: The End of Time was first broadcast.
2012 - Bob Anderson, who played a fighting guard in TV: The Enemy of the World, died.