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'''1 May''' was celebrated as '''[[May Day]]''' in the [[United Kingdom]] and several other countries on the [[planet]] [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') | '''1 May''' was celebrated as '''[[May Day]]''' in the [[United Kingdom]] and several other countries on the [[planet]] [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') | ||
In [[1643]], the May Day celebration in [[Little Hodcombe]] turned especially bloody as the village's [[Queen of the May]] was [[murder|burned]] at the stake, an event instigated by the [[Malus]] and recounted by [[Will Chandler]] to the [[Fifth Doctor]] in [[1984]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'') | |||
In [[1699]], [[Captain]] [[Henry Avery]] noted in the ''[[Fancy]]'' log that his ship had been stilled on a windless ocean for eight days. ([[WC]]: ''[[Prequel (The Curse of the Black Spot)|Prequel: The Curse of the Black Spot]]'') | |||
In [[1707]], the [[Act of Union]] formally united [[Scotland]] and [[England]] as the [[United Kingdom]] of Great Britain.{{fact}} This was one of the events leading towards the [[Highlander Uprising]] in which [[Jamie McCrimmon]] participated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders]]'') | |||
In [[1873]], [[Professor]] [[Cornelius Perkins]] and [[Dr]] [[Hugo Somesby]], reaching the thirty-sixth day of their expedition to the [[Amazon]] [[rainforest]], disappeared while searching for the legendary [[Lost City of Gold]]. In Perkins' final diary entry that day, he described "a [[frog]] the size of a [[rhinoceros]]" with the leg of one of the natives in its mouth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Valley of Death (audio story)|The Valley of Death]]'') | |||
In [[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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'') | |||
Circa [[1970s]], {{Delgado}} was finally captured by [[UNIT]], but only temporarily. Later, after having defeated the Master, the [[Third Doctor]] celebrated [[May Day]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') | |||
In [[1984]], the [[Malus]] was re-awakened. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'') | |||
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