24th October

Coronation Street history

 * 1966 - Elsie Tanner is held at knifepoint by an unbalanced Moira Maxwell, the widow of Robert who died in his car in September 1965 immediately after he picked up Elsie in a Cheshire pub.
 * 1979 - Ray Langton informs Deirdre that he is suing her for divorce and citing Ken Barlow as co-respondent.
 * 1983 - Ken Barlow buys a third share of the Weatherfield Recorder. Brian Tilsley takes on Kevin Webster as a full-time mechanic.
 * 1997 - Single parent Sally Webster starts a relationship with Chris Collins.
 * 2001 - Jack and Vera Duckworth discover that Terry is being held on a charge of attempted murder.
 * 2004 - Dev Alahan and Sunita Parekh have their civil wedding ceremony prior to their Hindu wedding ceremony.
 * 2005 - Mike Baldwin tells Danny that he's his natural son and not just his nephew.

Real world

 * 1979 - After ten week's of blank screens due to strike action, the ITV network returns to the screens at 5.45pm. Coronation Street continues where it left off on 8th August with the next scheduled episode but with a specially filmed prologue of Peter Adamson and Julie Goodyear, both in character as Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch and out of character speaking directly to the camera, reminding viewers of the "story so far".

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 24th October on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1962, 1966
 * 1970s - 1973, 1977, 1979
 * 1980s - 1983, 1984, 1988
 * 1990s - 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 (I) (II), 2007, 2008 (I) (II)