EventsEdit

Coronation Street historyEdit

• 1962 - Baby Christopher Hewitt goes missing from outside Gamma Garments while in Lucille Hewitt's care. Christopher's pram was taken by Lucille's friend Brenda Cowan.
• 1969 - The Rovers regulars compete against the Flying Horse punters in a game of football. As it ends in a draw the Rovers wins at the toss of a coin.
• 1975 - A discarded cigarette starts a fire that quickly gets out of control at the Mark Brittain Warehouse. Employee Edna Gee is killed in the warehouse as the firemen try to control the blaze.
• 1999 - Judy Mallett's funeral. Terry Duckworth flees in the car that Judy was in when she got an embolism in her leg.
• 2000 - Gary Mallett leaves Weatherfield with his two children.
• 2003 - Steve McDonald proposes to Karen McDonald. She accepts. They have already been married before.
• 2009 - Fiz Brown and John Stape marry.
• 2012 - Kirsty Soames registers baby Ruby's birth, but leaves the father's name blank on the birth certificate so that, should Tyrone Dobbs leave her, she will ensured custody of Ruby.

Real worldEdit

• 1970 - Anglia Television began colour broadcasts. The first episode of Coronation Street they transmitted in colour was Episode 1013 (5th October 1970).
• 1974 - Keith Duffy (Ciaran McCarthy) born.
• 1996 - The satellite channel Granada Plus was launched, and on its opening night began a regular repeat run of consecutive episodes from the archives, starting from Episode 1588, originally transmitted on 5th April 1976.

EpisodesEdit

Episodes were broadcast on 1st October on the following years:

• 1960s - 1962, 1969
• 1970s - 1973, 1975
• 1980s - 1980, 1984, 1986
• 1990s - 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999
• 2000s - 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 (I) (II), 2008, 2009
• 2010s - 2010 (I) (II), 2012 (I) (II)