7th October

Coronation Street history

 * 1926 - Alf Roberts born.
 * 1961 - Eileen Grimshaw born.
 * 1963 - Jerry Booth buys No. 13 for £525.
 * 1968 - Len Fairlcough is arrested for the murder of Steve Tanner.
 * 1974 - Bet Lynch's holiday prize of the Bahamas for two people in a "Spot the Ball" competition is swapped for Majorca for eight people in order that all the women can go together.
 * 1985 - Ivy Tilsley finds out that fiance George Wardle is a divorcee and marrying him would go against her religious beliefs.
 * 1987 - Jenny Bradley announces that she is going to marry a man she met when she ran away to France.
 * 1996 - At a party to celebrate his seventieth bithday Alf Roberts is horrified to discover that his present from Audrey is a stay at a health farm.
 * 2001 - Dev Alahan and Geena Gregory become engaged.
 * 2002 - Richard Hillman threatens his ex-sister-in-law, Charlotte Morris, when she starts to pry too closely into Patricia Hillman's disappearance.

Real world

 * 1926 - Writer Jim Allen born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 7th October on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1963, 1964, 1968
 * 1970s - 1970, 1974
 * 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2002 (I) (II), 2005