3 October

3 October 4998 was the date on the patent application that Professor Frederick Marius took out on K9 Mark I. In a legal sense, then, it was effectively the "birthday" of that portable robot. (PROSE: The English Way of Death)

In 1849, the TARDIS brought the Seventh Doctor and Ace to Baltimore, Maryland to see the dying Edgar Allan Poe. On that night Poe, a drunkard, was being taken around from precinct to precinct in order to cast multiple votes and thereby help steal a local election. (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice)