16 December

Events

 * 1773 - The Doctor was present at the Boston Tea Party. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

Behind the scenes

 * 1929 - Nicholas Courtney, who played Bret Vyon in TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and, more famously, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, was born.
 * 1930 - Ronald Allen (Rago in TV: The Dominators and Ralph Cornish in TV: The Ambassadors of Death) was born.
 * 1946 - Richard Ireson was born.
 * 1967 - TV: The Ice Warriors Episode 6 was first broadcast.
 * 1974 - The stage play Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday premiered at the Adelphi Theatre.
 * 1978 - TV: The Androids of Tara Episode 4 was first broadcast.
 * 1995 - Tony Then, who appeared as Lee in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, died in Singapore.
 * 2003 - Alfred Lynch, who appeared as Commander Millington in TV: The Curse of Fenric, died from cancer.