5th April

Coronation Street history

 * 1961 - Elsie Tanner arranges the sale of No.9 to daughter and son-in-law Linda and Ivan Cheveski.
 * 1965 - Peter and Susan Barlow are born.
 * 1972 - Ernest Bishop marries Emily Nugent. Among the wedding guests is ex-resident Esther Hayes (Final appearance of the character).
 * 1976 - After an absence of two and half years, Elsie Tanner returns to the street.
 * 1993 - John Hargreaves is cleared of the charge of dangerous driving and causing the death of Lisa Duckworth, much to Vera's anger.
 * 1998 - Les Battersby accepts that Greg Kelly is his son.
 * 2000 - The Underworld girls go on strike over Linda Sykes' treatment of Bobbi Lewis.
 * 2002 - Bobbi Lewis leaves the Street.
 * 2006 - Mike Baldwin is rushed to hospital suffering from pneumonia.

Real world

 * 1991 - Director Gerald Blake died.
 * 1998 - The last episode written by long-term scriptwriter Adele Rose was broadcast.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 5th April on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1961, 1965, 1967
 * 1970s - 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978
 * 1980s - 1982, 1989
 * 1990s - 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2004 (I) (II), 2006