30th December

On this day in Coronation Street history

 * 1960 - May Hardman dies at No. 13.
 * 1970 - A Health Department report reveals gin served at the Rovers Return Inn was watered down.
 * 1981 - Emily Bishop is left £2,000 in bigamist husband Arnold Swain's will.
 * 1985 - Mike Baldwin and Susan Barlow leave for London to spend the New Year together.
 * 1996 - Curly Watts changes his mind about emigrating to France on the day he was supposed to go.
 * 1998 - Natalie Barnes buys the Rovers from Alec Gilroy. Alec and Vicky McDonald leave Weatherfield for good.
 * 2001 - At an auction to sell off the Rovers, Fred Elliott wins with £76,000.
 * 2005 - Sally Webster catches 15-year-old Rosie Webster in bed with Craig Harris.
 * 2007 - Sarah Louise Grimshaw and her daughter Bethany Platt leave for Milan to start a new leave. Sarah's husband Jason Grimshaw refuses to go with them.

Production history

 * 1998 - Last appearances of Alec Gilroy and Vicky McDonald.
 * 2007 - Last appearances of Sarah Louise Grimshaw and Bethany Platt.

Deaths

 * May Hardman (1960)

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 30th December on the following years:


 * 1960
 * 1963
 * 1964
 * 1968
 * 1970
 * 1974
 * 1981
 * 1985
 * 1987
 * 1991
 * 1992
 * 1994
 * 1996
 * 1998
 * 2001
 * 2002
 * 2005
 * 2007