4th January

On this day in Coronation Street history

 * 1961 - Ken Barlow holds a student rally in his house. Arnold Tanner visits his family for the first time in 15 years - to get a divorce.
 * 1965 - Ena Sharples is left 11 Coronation Street in a will, making her Elsie Tanner's landlady.
 * 1971 - Betty Turpin is given a week's notice at the Rovers Returnn Inn.
 * 1978 - Hilda Ogden is interviewed for radio while waiting in the queue for a shop sale and doesn't notice the shop opening. She misses out on the colour TV she wanted.
 * 1984 - Elsie Tanner leaves Coronation Street to live in Portugal with Bill Gregory. This is her final appearance in the show after 24 years.
 * 1991 - Curly Watts breaks his engagement to Kimberley Taylor. Reg Holdsworth tries it on with Rita Fairclough, much to her horror.
 * 1995 - Denise Osbourne gives birth to a son, Daniel Osbourne. Ken Barlow is the father.
 * 2008 - Liam Connor plummets into a gorge.

Birthdays

 * Daniel Osbourne (1995)

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 4th January on the following years:


 * 1961
 * 1965
 * 1971
 * 1978
 * 1982
 * 1984
 * 1988
 * 1989
 * 1991
 * 1993
 * 1995
 * 1998
 * 1999
 * 2002
 * 2004
 * 2006
 * 2008