1 May

This date is celebrated as May Day in the UK and several other countries on the planet Earth.

History of the Doctor Who Universe

 * 1643 - The May Day celebration in Little Hodcombe turns especially bloody as the village's Queen of the May is burned at the stake, an event instigated by the Malus and recounted by Will Chandler to the Doctor in 1984 ("The Awakening").


 * 1707 - The Act of Union formally unites Scotland and England as the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This is one of the events leading towards the Highlander Uprising in which Jamie McCrimmon will participate ("The Highlanders").


 * 1957 - The first Sputnik satellite is launched by the Soviet Union, but is destroyed before it completes its first orbit. Neither the launch nor the satellite's destruction is ever made public ("First Frontier").


 * circa 1970s - The concluding events of "The Daemons" occur on this date, with the Master finally captured by UNIT, but only temporarily.


 * 1984 - The events of "The Awakening" occur on this date.

History of Doctor Who

 * 1923 - James Copeland, who played Selris in "The Krotons," is born.


 * 1946 - Joanna Lumley, who played the Thirteenth (Female) Doctor in "The Curse of Fatal Death," is born in Srinagar, Kashmir, India.


 * 2006 - Season 28 is released on DVD in the UK with volume one containing "The Christmas Invasion" and "New Earth."