18th December

Coronation Street history

 * 1967 - The Council decides to demolish Elliston's Raincoat Factory in Coronation Street.
 * 1974 - Maggie Cooke returns to Weatherfield from Zaire.
 * 1992 - Carmel Finnan admits to Martin Platt that she is in love with him. Martin asks her to leave No.8.
 * 1998 - Kevin Webster tells wife Sally he wants a divorce.
 * 2002 - Vikram Desai leaves Coronation Street after stealing £10,000 from Street Cars (final appearance of the character).
 * 2005 - Kelly Crabtree is mugged.
 * 2006 - Viv Baldwin is furious when she finds out her grandson Jamie is sleeping with his step-mother Frankie. She blames them for the disappearance of her son Danny.

Real world

 * 1943 - Mervyn Cumming born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 18th December on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968
 * 1970s - 1972, 1974, 1978
 * 1980s - 1985, 1989
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 (I) (II)