15th April

Coronation Street history

 * 1912 - Ena Sharples' brother Tom Schofield, emigrating to America, is feared dead after the Titanic disaster but it later turns out that he failed to gain a passage on the doomed liner.
 * 1963 - After thirteen months away in London, Dennis Tanner returns to the street and, not knowing of Elsie's dispute with the landlord, allows the baliffs into No.11.
 * 1964 - Stuart Hodges takes over the Mission of Glad Tidings and Emily Nugent falls for him.
 * 1968 - Maggie Clegg introduces the Street's residents to her son, Gordon (First appearance of the character).
 * 1970 - Hilda Ogden flies out to Australia to be with Irma after David Barlow dies, not knowing that her grandson Darren has also died.
 * 1981 - Wally Randle leaves a distraught Elsie Tanner after telling her that she's too old for him.
 * 1992 - Ted Sullivan tells Rita Fairclough that he has an inoperable brain tumour.
 * 2002 - A fire starts in the hardware shop while Martin and David Platt are asleep in the flat above.
 * 2009 - Ken Barlow confesses his affair with Martha Fraser to Peter.

Real world

 * 1982 - Arthur Lowe (Leonard Swindley) died.
 * 1996 - Coronation Street 's 4000th episode is broadcast.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 15th April on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1963, 1964, 1968
 * 1970s - 1970, 1974
 * 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009