1 May

This date was celebrated as May Day in the United Kingdom and several other countries on the planet Earth.

Events

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


 * 1707 - The Act of Union formally united Scotland and England as the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This was one of the events leading towards the Highlander Uprising in which Jamie McCrimmon participated. (DW: The Highlanders)


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


 * Circa 1970s - The Master was finally captured by UNIT, but only temporarily. (DW: The Dæmons)


 * 1984 - The Malus was re-awakened. (DW: The Awakening)

Behind the scenes

 * 1918 - James Copeland, who played Selris in DW: The Krotons, was born.


 * 1937 - Una Stubbs (Flo in BFA: Horror of Glam Rock) was born.


 * 1946 - Joanna Lumley, who played the Thirteenth Doctor in DW: The Curse of Fatal Death, was born in Srinagar, Kashmir, India.


 * 1965 - "The Dimensions of Time", episode 2 of DW: The Space Museum, was first broadcast on the BBC.
 * The last part of TVC: On the Web Planet was released.


 * 1971 - Episode Four of DW: Colony in Space was first broadcast.


 * 2002 - John Nathan-Turner, Doctor Who's longest-serving producer, died.


 * 2006 - Series 2 was released on DVD in the UK with volume one containing DW: The Christmas Invasion and New Earth.


 * 2008 - Bernard Archard (Bragen in DW: The Power of the Daleks and Marcus Scarman in DW: Pyramids of Mars) died.


 * 2010 - DW: Flesh and Stone, story 5 of Series 5, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC.