5 October

Doctor Who universe

 * 1930 - Shortly after its rendezvous with a Triskele spaceship, the British airship R101 was attacked by a Vortisaur and crashed into the fields of northern France. All aboard were presumed killed; in fact, 18-year-old stowaway Charlotte Pollard escaped aboard the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS. (BFA:Storm Warning)

Real World

 * 1916 - Ronald Leigh-Hunt was born
 * 1968 - Episode 4 of DW: The Mind Robber was first broadcast.
 * 1978 - May Warden died.
 * 1987 - Part 1 of DW: Paradise Towers was first broadcast.
 * 1988 - Part 1 of DW: Remembrance of the Daleks was first broadcast.
 * 1997 - Andrew Keir died.