20th September

Coronation Street history

 * 1965 - Elsie Tanner runs away from the scene of the car crash with the dead Robert Maxwell.
 * 1971 - Realising that Frank Bradley was behind the mugging of Lucille Hewitt and the theft of the Betting Shop money she was taking to the bank, Bet Lynch shops him to Dave Smith.
 * 1982 - Phyllis Pearce tracks down Chalkie Whitely and grandson Craig to No. 9 (First appearance of the character).
 * 1986 - Candice Stowe born.
 * 1989 - The residents wake up to the sight of the Community Centre and the factory being knocked down.
 * 1995 - Nick Platt changes his name back to "Tilsley" to meet the conditions of Ivy Brennan's will and inherit No. 5.
 * 1996 - The Weatherfield Historical Society includes No. 4 on its sight-seeing tour with Mavis Wilton's permission although she is puzzled as to why her house is of historical interest. She is horrified when the tour guide speaks of it as the site of Ernest Bishop's murder in 1978 and his widow Emily overhears the commentary.
 * 2000 - Jim McDonald is charged with the manslaughter of Jez Quigley.
 * 2004 - Rita Sullivan and Norris Cole go for a meal at Rula Romanoff's house, not realising that they've been invited to a swinger's party.

Real world

 * 1967 - An episode of Coronation Street is repeated for the first time ever when Episode 702 which featured Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner and was shown two weeks earlier on 6th September is shown again in five ITV regions at 9.00pm under the title of Coronation Street - Wedding of the Year.
 * 1986 - Writer Dennis Spooner dies.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 20th September 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, 2001, 2002, 2004 (I) (II), 2006