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Events

Coronation Street history

• 1961 - Ken Barlow finds out that the woman he has been seeing, Marian Lund, has got engaged to a university lecturer.
• 1971 - The committee at the Community Centre are elected.
• 1978 - Fred Gee proposes to Bet Lynch, but she turns him down as she doesn't love him.
• 1982 - Len Fairclough finishes building the new No.7.
• 1996 - Vicky McDonald leaves Coronation Street.
• 2000 - Bereaved Alison Webster kidnaps newborn Bethany Platt. She's found by Kevin Webster and returns the baby, then runs in front of a lorry and dies.
• 2002 - Sam Kingston leaves for Ibiza, making his final appearance.
• 2004 - Baby Billy Platt's funeral.
• 2006 - When a Street Cars taxi is impounded for involvement in a hit-and-run, Steve McDonald realises he's been framed by his girlfriend Ronnie Clayton, who told him she had been speeding in the car and convinced him to cover for her.

Real world

• 1982 - The new outdoor set is first seen in the show.
• 1985 - Gordon Rollings dies.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 7th June 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, 2002, 2004 (I) (II), 2006

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of Doctor Who

• 1924 - Dolores Gray is born.

• 1936 - Dwight Whylie, who played the radio announcer in The War Machines, is born in Jamaica.

• 1940 - Ronald Pickup is born.

• 1969 - The War Games Episode 8 First Broadcast