30th September

Coronation Street history

 * 1964 - Stan Ogden is fixed up with his first match in his new career as a professional wrestler.
 * 1968 - Elsie Tanner is told by the police that Steve was found dead at the foot of the stairs in his flat. She realises that they suspect murder was involved and that she is a suspect.
 * 1974 - Blanche Hunt meets Ray Langton for the first time and promptly slaps his face for upsetting daughter Deirdre.
 * 2001 - Dev Alahan meets Geena Gregory's parents but her mother Gill makes it clear that she doesn't approve of the relationship because Dev is Asian.
 * 2002 - Peter Barlow begins an affair with Lucy Richards.
 * 2005 - A guilt-ridden Violet Wilson confesses to boyfriend Jason Grimshaw that she kissed Charlie Stubbs.
 * 2007 - Tyrone Dobbs is accused of stealing money from Jack Duckworth when grandson Paul Clayton is the real culprit.

Real world

 * 1933 - Barbara Knox (Rita Sullivan) born.
 * 1961 - Grampian Television launched. Episode 84 is the first episode of Coronation Street to be broadcast there on Monday 2nd October.
 * 1971 - Ten years after their launch, Grampian begins colour broadcasts. The first episode of Coronation Street they transmit in colour is Episode 1118 on Monday 4th October.
 * 1974 - Maggie Jones plays Blanche Hunt for the first time following the suicide of Patricia Cutts, the previous actress to play the role on 6th September.

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


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