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Events

Coronation Street history

• 1969 - Albert Tatlock and Alice Pickens are supposed to get married, but Alice decides against it at the last minute. Alice leaves for Morecambe, the couple's honeymoon destination, alone.
• 1993 - Brendan Scott's funeral.
• 1995 - Ivy Brennan's will is read. She has left her house, 5 Coronation Street, to grandson Nick Platt on the condition he changes his surname back to Tilsley. Ivy's husband Don Brennan gets nothing.
• 2003 - Curly and Emma Watts leave Weatherfield with their son Ben for a new life in Newcastle. (This is Kevin Kennedy's last appearance in the show as Curly after 20 years).
• 2008 - Teresa Bryant admits to Jerry Morton he is in hospital because she has been poisoning him.

Real world

• 1898 - Violet Carson born.
• 1961 - Border Television launched. Episode 76 is the first episode of Coronation Street to be broadcast there on Monday 4th September.
• 1962 - Channel Television launched. Episode 180 is the first episode of Coronation Street to be broadcast there on Monday 3rd September.
• 1971 - Border Television begins colour broadcasts. The first episode of Coronation Street they transmitted in colour was Episode 1109.
• 2004 - Richard Everitt, former Producer and Executive Producer died.

Episodes

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

• 1960s - 1965, 1969
• 1970s - 1971, 1975, 1976
• 1980s - 1980, 1982, 1986
• 1990s - 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
• 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2003 (I) (II), 2004, 2006, 2008 (I) (II)

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

• 1939 - World War II begins on Earth as Germany invades Poland. The Doctor warned Hitler that Britain and France would declare war if he took this action. (known history, NA: Timewyrm: Exodus)
• 2982 - Roz Forrester, companion of the Seventh Doctor, is buried on Earth. (NA: So Vile a Sin)

History of Doctor Who

• 1928 - Emrys James, who played Aukon in "State of Decay," is born in Machynlleth, Wales.

• 1979 - Destiny of the Daleks Episode One First Broadcast

• 2008 - Big Finish Productions release for free download U.N.I.T.: The Coup.