9th May

Coronation Street history

 * 1966 - Wally Tanner, Elsie's former father-in-law, turns up at twenty years absence.
 * 1983 - Mark Redman is born (In later storylines the characters birth was backdated to 1981.
 * 1988 - Ida Clough admits to Mike Baldwin that she shopped him to the police for drink-driving.
 * 1999 - Fred Elliott woos Audrey Roberts with a lunch but she disappoints him by telling him that she's only interested in friendship.
 * 2001 - Duggie Ferguson hires Shelley Unwin to work in the Rovers (First appearance of the character).
 * 2004 - Karl Foster admits his affair with Todd Grimshaw to Katy Harris.
 * 2005 - Candice Stowe starts work as an "eye in the sky" traffic reporter for local radio but is sick over the pilot on her first (and only) flight.
 * 2008 - Liam and Maria Connor's still-born baby is buried.

Real world

 * 1993 - Emma Woodward (Sophie Webster) born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 9th May on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1962, 1966
 * 1970s - 1973, 1977, 1979
 * 1980s - 1983, 1984, 1988
 * 1990s - 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 (I), (II), 2007, 2008 (I), (II)
 * Pardon the Expression - The Sailor Home From The Sea (1966)