7 January

On 7 January 1610, Galileo Galilei wrote in a letter that he had spotted three of Jupiter's moons. A few months later, he discovered a fourth. The final moon, the golden planet of Voga, would not be discovered by humans until the 29th century. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

In 1908, Nora Wicker's husband Ernie was born. (AUDIO: The World Tree)

In 1979, Phil Tyson, a cleaner at Cheeky Chicken, was born in Peckham Hospital at 3:50 PM. Shogalath used quantum runes to divine that his spirit "re-entered the physical plane" in the body of baby Phil. (COMIC: Mr Nobody)

Saturday 7 January 2012 was the date of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's funeral. (PROSE: Lucy Wilson & the Bledoe Cadets)

Mary met Sarah's father on this date in an unspecified year, though she claimed that they met on New Year's Eve, which she insisted to her daughter was "the same thing". (TV: Eve of the Daleks)

In 2321, the Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown, and Frobisher visited the Mayflower. (COMIC: Profits of Doom!)