1 January

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


 * 1966 - The Doctor's TARDIS departed Trafalgar Square, where it had arrived during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)
 * 2000 - The Eighth Doctor departed San Francisco, where he had landed two days before (DW: Doctor Who (1996)), Jack Harkness became the leader of Torchwood Three following the death of Alex Hopkins (TW: Fragments), the Fourth Doctor landed in Paris (IDW: The Forgotten)
 * 2005 - A dying Tenth Doctor visited Rose Tyler before she had met him. The Doctor commented that she's "Gonna have a great year" before seeing a vision of Ood Sigma and stumbling back to the TARDIS and regenerating (DW: The End of Time).

Behind the scenes

 * 1935 - Writer Dave Martin was born in Birmingham, England.
 * 1966 - "Volcano" episode 8 of DW: The Daleks' Master Plan was first broadcast.
 * 1969 - Sophie Okonedo, who was the voice of companion Alison Cheney and who portrayed Elizabeth X was born.
 * 1972 - Episode One of DW: Day of the Daleks was first broadcast.
 * 1972 - Neve McIntosh (Alaya and Restac in DW: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) was born.
 * 1977 - Part One of DW: The Face of Evil was first broadcast.
 * 2003 - Cyril Shaps, who had appearances in DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Spiders and The Androids of Tara, died.
 * 2007 - SJA: Invasion of the Bane was first broadcast.
 * 2007 - TW: Captain Jack Harkness was first broadcast.
 * 2007 - TW: End of Days was first broadcast.
 * 2010 - Part Two of DW: The End of Time was first broadcast.