8 December

Doctor Who Univere Events

 * 1926 - The Doctor and Donna Noble meet Agatha Christie. Agatha goes 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)

Real World Events

 * 1939 - Jennie Linden born in Worthing, Sussex. She would play Barbara in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965).
 * 1979 - DW: Nightmare of Eden, Part 3, is first broadcast