3rd October

Coronation Street history

 * 1966 - The Cheveskis return from Canada to live permanently in the UK although in Birmingham and not Weatherfield.
 * 1973 - Elsie Howard moves to Newcastle with husband Alan. She would not return to Weatherfield for three years.
 * 1997 - Bill Webster and Maureen Elliott elope together to Germany, only eleven days after her wedding to Fred Elliott.
 * 1999 - Linda Sykes moves in with Mike Baldwin. Terry Duckworth has mother Vera's "cut and shut" car crushed to avoid being prosecuted over the death of Judy Mallett.
 * 2001 - Charlie Ramsden is shocked to find that a pupil who has been tormenting her at school is her own half-brother.
 * 2003 - Ciaran McCarthy has a fling with older woman Bev Unwin.
 * 2004 - Shelley Unwin sacks Liz McDonald for trying it on with Charlie Stubbs when it was a case of being the other way round.
 * 2007 - Jason Grimshaw snaps and attacks a genuinely sorry David Platt over Bethany taking ecstasy pills that he hid in one of her dolls.

Real world

 * 2004 - Writer - and father of Sarah Lancashire - Geoffrey Lancashire died.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 3rd October on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1962, 1966
 * 1970s - 1973, 1977
 * 1980s - 1983, 1984, 1988
 * 1990s - 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 (I) (II), 2007, 2008 (I) (II)