9 April

Events

 * 1865 - The Fifth Doctor prevented U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was being assassinated in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the defeated Confederate States of America, by Aaron Eddowes. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)

Behind the scenes

 * 1925 - Derek Murcott (Crito in TV: The Time Monster) was born.
 * 1928 - Aubrey Woods (the Controller in TV: Day of the Daleks) was born.
 * 1941 - Hannah Gordon (Kirsty McLaren in TV: The Highlanders) was born.
 * 1944 - Peter Messaline, who voiced the Daleks in TV: Day of the Daleks, was born.
 * 1966 - "The Hall of Dolls", Episode 2 of TV: The Celestial Toymaker, was first broadcast.
 * 1966 - The final part of COMIC: Plague of the Black Scorpi was released.
 * 1972 - Neve McIntosh (Alaya and Restac in TV: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood and Vastra in A Good Man Goes to War and The Snowmen was born.
 * 2005 - TV: The Unquiet Dead was first broadcast.
 * 2011 - Yolande Palfrey (Janet in TV: Terror of the Vervoids) died.