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Events

Coronation Street history

• 1960 - May Hardman dies at No. 13.
• 1970 - A Health Department report reveals gin served at the Rovers Return Inn is watered down.
• 1981 - Emily Bishop is left £2,000 in bigamist husband Arnold Swain's will.
• 1985 - Mike Baldwin and Susan Barlow leave for London to spend the New Year together.
• 1996 - Curly Watts changes his mind about emigrating to France on the day he was supposed to go.
• 1998 - Natalie Barnes buys the Rovers from Alec Gilroy. Alec and Vicky McDonald leave Weatherfield for good.
• 2001 - At an auction to sell off the Rovers, Fred Elliott wins with £76,000.
• 2005 - Sally Webster catches 15-year-old Rosie Webster in bed with Craig Harris.
• 2007 - Sarah Louise Grimshaw and her daughter Bethany Platt leave for Milan to start a new life. Sarah's husband Jason Grimshaw refuses to go with them.

Real World

• 1945 - David Jones (Colin Lomax in 1961 and later of The Monkees) is born.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 30th December on the following years:

• 1960s - 1960, 1963, 1964, 1968
• 1970s - 1970, 1974
• 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
• 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
• 2000s - 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

• 1999 - The Seventh Doctor is caught in a gang war's crossfire in San Francisco. He dies on the operating table and later regenerates into the Eighth Doctor. (DW:Doctor Who: The TV Movie)

History of Doctor Who

• 1967 - The Enemy of the World Episode 2 First Broadcast
• 1972 - The Three Doctors Episode 1 First Broadcast
• 1978 - The Power of Kroll Episode 2 First Broadcast