16th December

On this day in Coronation Street history

 * 1960 - May Hardman returns home after a nervous breakdown.
 * 1963 - Ena Sharples catches Lucille Hewitt bunking off school.
 * 1970 - Joe Donelli takes Irma Barlow hostage in her flat.
 * 1981 - The Ogdens decide not to sell No. 13 when they can't find a good council house to move into.
 * 1985 - Mike Baldwin agrees to be best man at Alf Roberts's wedding to Audrey Potter.
 * 1998 - Jackie and Tyrone Dobbs start squatting in No. 7.
 * 2001 - Duggie Ferguson decides to auction off the Rovers Return Inn.
 * 2002 - Steve and Karen McDonald are returning from a holiday to Tenerife but find out that Vikram Desai has planted cocaine in Karen's suitcase. Steve empties the cocaine into the canal, leaving Vik ruined.

Production history

 * 1960 - First appearance of Leonard Swindley.
 * 1974 - First appearance of Ena Sharples since Violet Carson's stroke.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 16th December on the following years:


 * 1960
 * 1963
 * 1964
 * 1968
 * 1970
 * 1974
 * 1981
 * 1985
 * 1987
 * 1991
 * 1992
 * 1994
 * 1996
 * 1998
 * 2001
 * 2002
 * 2005
 * 2007