18 December

Events

 * 1926 - Agatha Christie was found at a hotel in Harrogate. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
 * 1953 - The Sky Gypsy, a small private plane bound from Cardiff to Dublin, disappeared. It reappeared in 2007. (TW: Out of Time)
 * 2367 - Walton "Uncle Winkie" Winkle, the creator of Winkle's Wonderland, died of congenital heart disease. He had his body cryogencially frozen in the hope that he could be revived and cured in the future. (BFA: Zagreus)

Behind the scenes

 * 1937 - Derrick Slater (a Security Guard in DW: The Seeds of Death) was born.
 * 1965 - "Coronas of the Sun," episode 6 of DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, was first broadcast.
 * 1968 - Nina Wadia, who played Ramsden in DW: The Eleventh Hour, was born.
 * 1981 - Joshua Dallas (the Mark Chambers Node in DW: Silence in the Library) was born.
 * 2010 - K9TV: Regeneration was first broadcast on Five in the UK.