1st September

Coronation Street history

 * 1954 - Roy Cropper born.
 * 1969 - Albert Tatlock and Alice Pickens are supposed to get married, but Alice decides against it at the last minute. Alice leaves for Morecambe, the couple's honeymoon destination, alone.
 * 1993 - Brendan Scott's funeral.
 * 1995 - Ivy Brennan's will is read. She has left her house, No. 5 Coronation Street, to grandson Nick Platt on the condition he changes his surname back to Tilsley. Ivy's husband Don Brennan gets nothing.
 * 2003 - Curly and Emma Watts leave Weatherfield with their son Ben for a new life in Newcastle. This is Kevin Kennedy's last appearance in the show as Curly after 20 years.
 * 2008 - Teresa Bryant admits to Jerry Morton he is in hospital because she has been poisoning him.

Real world

 * 1898 - Violet Carson born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 1st September on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1965, 1969
 * 1970s - 1971, 1975, 1976
 * 1980s - 1980, 1982, 1986
 * 1990s - 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2003 (I) (II), 2004, 2006, 2008 (I) (II)