1930

Events

Doctor Who Universe

June

• The Fourth Doctor, K9 and Romana arrived in London during a heat wave. (MA: The English Way of Death)

October

• 4 - The airship R101 leaves London, England, bound for British India. Aboard are two stowaways: the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard. (BFA: Storm Warning)
• 5 - Shortly after its rendezvous with a Triskele spaceship, the airship R101 is attacked by a Vortisaur and crashes into the fields of northern France. All aboard are presumed killed. (BFA: Storm Warning)

November

• 1 - Due to the onset of the Great Depression, New York City's Central Park housed one of several tent cities called Hooverville, inhabited by the unemployed and homeless. The Cult of Skaro, having escaped to this year from the Battle of Canary Wharf began abducting people in hopes of creating a Dalek-human hybrid and reviving the Dalek race. Dalek Sec became just such a hybrid, and was later killed by his colleagues for doing so. The Tenth Doctor turned a race of humans infused with Dalek DNA created as part of this experiment against Daleks Thay and Jast, but Dalek Caan destroyed the race and shifted away. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)

December

• 31 - The Doctor and Charley Pollard celebrated New Year's Eve in Singapore. (BFA: Seasons of Fear)

Unknown dates

• The Doctor learned magic tricks from Maskelyne. (DW: The Ribos Operation)
• The Fourth Doctor visited the planet Tigella, where he saw 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 was 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

• 2 - Writer Don Houghton is born.
• 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.

September

• 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

• 4 - Ronnie Corbett is born.
• 16 - Ronald Allen is born.

Unknown date

• Edward Kelsey is born.