16 December

Events

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

Behind the scenes

 * 1929 - Nicholas Courtney, who played Bret Vyon in DW The Daleks' Master Plan and more famously, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, was born.


 * 1930 - Ronald Allen (Rago in DW: The Dominators and Ralph Cornish in DW: The Ambassadors of Death) was born.


 * 1946 - Richard Ireson was born.


 * 1967 - DW: The Ice Warriors, Episode 6 was first broadcast.


 * 1974 - SP: Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday premiered at the Adelphi Theatre.


 * 1978 - DW: The Androids of Tara, Episode 4 was first broadcast.


 * 1995 - Tony Then, who appeared as Lee in DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, died in Singapore.


 * 2003 - Alfred Lynch, who appeared as Commander Millington in DW: The Curse of Fenric, died from cancer.