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Events

Coronation Street history

• 1961 - Final appearance of Ida Barlow whose character would be declared dead after being knocked down by a bus in the next episode.
• 1965 - Len Fairclough and Jerry Booth knock down the remains of the collapsed No. 7.
• 1967 - Elsie Tanner marries wartime sweetheart Steve Tanner at St Stephen's in Warrington. Ernest Bishop takes the photographs under his trading name of "Gordon Bishop" (First appearance of the character). On his way back from the reception, Harry Hewitt is crushed to death when a car jack under Len Fairclough's broken-down van collapses.
• 1971 - Lucille Hewitt is mugged and badly beaten when she takes Dave Smith's Betting Shop takings to the bank.
• 1972 - The police are called in to search for the missing Jason Lomax.
• 1991 - Gail Tilsley proposes to Martin Platt.
• 1995 - After a three-year gap, Des Barnes meets his ex-wife Steph again.
• 1996 - The Platts fly off to Canada for a holiday (Final appearance of Warren Jackson in the role of Nick Tilsley).
• 2002 - Professional cleaner Harry Flagg offers his services to the Rovers when he sees the state of the pub (First appearance of the character).
• 2004 - First appearance of Kelly Crabtree.

Real world

• 1974 - Patricia Cutts, the first actress to play Blanche Hunt, commits suicide.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 6th September on the following years:

• 1960s - 1961, 1965, 1967
• 1970s - 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978
• 1980s - 1982, 1989
• 1990s - 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
• 2000s - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 (I) (II), 2006

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of Doctor Who

• 1939 - Gordon Reid, who played Phillips in "Invasion of the Dinosaurs," is born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
• 1969 - Neill Gorton, who handles special make-up and prosthetic effects for the new Doctor Who series, is born in Liverpool.
• 1989 - Episode 1 of Battlefield is first broadcast.