8 December

Events

 * 1926 - The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble met Agatha Christie. Agatha went missing for the next ten days. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
 * 1980 - John Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman. (NA: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

Behind the scenes

 * 1933 - Hugh Martin (Munro in DW: Terror of the Zygons) was born.
 * 1933 - Jocelyn Birdsall (Hlynia in the Doctor Who story The Web Planet) was born.
 * 1939 - Jennie Linden was born in Worthing, Sussex. She played Barbara in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965).
 * 1979 - DW: Nightmare of Eden Part 3 was first broadcast.