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4 May in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

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4 May was a date.

Events

On 4 May 1536, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited the court of King Henry VIII of England. They met Anne Boleyn shortly before her execution on 19 May. (AUDIO: Recorded Time)

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher led the Conservative Party to victory in the United Kingdom's General Election. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Steve Tribe, BBC Books (2008).)

In 1991, Captain Therése Gavalle turned up at an airport in Nice, France, after her disappearance from the island of Réunion in 1988 after encountering Tko-Ma. She remembered nothing of what had happened to her in the interim. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness)

The Eleventh Doctor arrived in 2010 and stopped Cybermen from awakening. He blew up their base and returned them to stasis. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen)

In 7791, the Doom Moon of the Sixth Great and Bountiful Human Empire was destroyed. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Other

While in the Land of Fiction, Lemuel Gulliver told the Second Doctor that he set sail from Bristol on 4 May 1699. As the Doctor soon discovered, though, he was actually quoting Gulliver's Travels, the book from where he originated. (TV: The Mind Robber)

Behind the scenes

In a corporate video filmed by Jon Pertwee circa 1981, the Third Doctor informed a British couple about a television advertising campaign that the appliances manufacturer Zanussi would be initiating on May 4.

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