27th March

Coronation Street history

 * 1963 - Jed Stone does a midnight flit to Liverpool without telling Minnie Caldwell that he's leaving.
 * 1968 - David Barlow is livid at the way the Gazette has printed a story about his move to Australia and finds out that their story was amended from details Albert Tatlock gave them.
 * 1978 - Elsie Tanner goes to a bar to cheer herself up after her divorce and is picked up by Bernard Lane who mistakes her for a prostitute.
 * 1992 - Health and Safety inspects the kitchen at the Rovers and condemn it.
 * 1995 - Tracy Barlow remains on a life-support machine after taking Ecstacy.
 * 1996 - Jim McDonald is sent to Strangeways for three weeks for breaking his bail conditions and hounding Liz
 * 2002 - Charlie Ramsden aborts her baby against husband Matt's wishes.
 * 2006 - David Platt's plan to break up Gail and Phil Nail succeeds when he goads him into grabbing her arm, reminding her of Richard Hillman's violence.
 * 2009 - Deirdre Barlow takes Simon off Peter because of his drunkeness.

Real world

 * 1961 - The first episode by acclaimed writer Jack Rosenthal is broadcast.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 27th March on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968
 * 1970s - 1972, 1974, 1978
 * 1980s - 1985, 1989
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 (I) (II), 2009 (I) (II)