10 March

10 March was notable for a number of highly varied events on Earth and in its vicinity:


 * 1702 - The Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turlough departed London after defeating Sir Nikolas Valentine. (AUDIO: Phantasmagoria)
 * 1926 - Death in the Clouds, a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, was first published. Although she had forgotten the events of her adventure with the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble in 1926, a subconscious memory of those events inspired her to write this book, which was destined to remain in print to the year 5,000,000,000. A facsimile edition of Death in the Clouds published in this year was obtained by the Doctor. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
 * 1942 - The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrived on a sabotaged submarine deep in the North Sea. Gein had sabotaged the ship in order to reach his spaceship, a Class III Bandradian freighter. Instead, the Doctor offered him a lift to there in his TARDIS. (COMIC: Sub-species)
 * 2957 - The Fourth Doctor, Adric and K9 landed on Space Station Alpha in time for the thousandth anniversary of humanity's first journey into space. Genesis III, a supercomputer tasked with finding new places for humanity to colonise, used a Composition Adjustment Teleport to miniaturise scientists and other humans. It created a world for these people that was the size of an atom. However, the Doctor told him the story of Puss in Boots, confusing the computer and rendering it harmless. (PROSE: Inter-Galactic Cat)

Behind the scenes

 * 1940 - Actor Michael Pinder was born.
 * 1943 - Actress Myra Frances was born.
 * 1947 - Actor Colin Stinton was born.
 * 1948 - Actor Stewart Bevan was born.
 * 1956 - Actress Lesley Dunlop was born.
 * 1957 - Actor Andrew Boxer was born.
 * 1973 - Episode three of Frontier in Space was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1975 - Actor Yee Jee Tso was born.
 * 2005 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Wasting completed.
 * 2008 - Big Finish audio story The Nightmare Fair finished recording.
 * 2010 - Fugitive, a graphic novel reprinting the first story arcs from comic series Doctor Who Ongoing, was published both in North America and in the UK, making it one of the first occasions of original IDW comic stories released in Britain.
 * 2011 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story Mine, All Mine! was first released by BBC Magazines in issue two hundred and eight.
 * 2011 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Wanderer took place.