From Coronation Street Wiki

Events

Coronation Street history

• 1938 - Frank Barlow marries Ida Leathers.
• 1989 - Nick Tilsley goes missing after attacking his mum Gail. Nicky has been taking his dad Brian Tilsley's death hard.
• 1996 - Last appearance of Phyllis Pearce.
• 2000 - Steve McDonald and Vikram Desai's new taxi firm Street Cars opens for business in Victoria Street.
• 2005 - Sir Ian McKellen makes his first appearance in the recurring role of conman Lionel Hipkiss, aka Mel Hutchwright.

Real world

• 1946 - Birth of Joanna Lumley (played Elaine Perkins, girlfriend of Ken Barlow in 1973).

Episodes

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

• 1960s - 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968
• 1970s - 1972, 1974, 1978
• 1980s - 1985, 1989
• 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998
• 2000s - 2000, 2005, 2006 (I) (II), 2009 (I) (II)
• The Brothers McGregor - Irate Dinner Tables (2006)

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

This date is celebrated as May Day in the UK and several other countries on the planet Earth.

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

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

• 1707 - The Act of Union formally unites Scotland and England as the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This is one of the events leading towards the Highlander Uprising in which Jamie McCrimmon will participate. (DW: The Highlanders)

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

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

• 1984 - The events of (DW: The Awakening) occur on this date.

History of Doctor Who

• 1923 - James Copeland, who played Selris in The Krotons, is born.

• 1946 - Joanna Lumley, who played the Thirteenth Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death, is born in Srinagar, Kashmir, India.

• 1965 - "The Dimensions of Time" First Broadcast (The Space Museum Episode 2)

• 1971 - Colony in Space Episode 4 First Broadcast

• 1990 - Brian Vaughan dies.

• 2002 - John Nathan-Turner dies.

• 2006 - Series 2 is released on DVD in the UK with volume one containing The Christmas Invasion and New Earth.

• 2008 - Bernard Archard dies.