6th May

Coronation Street history

 * 1964 - Frank Barlow wins £5,000 on the premium bonds.
 * 1970 - Stan Ogden buys Irma Barlow a partnership in the Corner Shop but Irma doesn't want to return there. Dickie Fleming leaves Audrey and the Street.
 * 1981 - Elsie Tanner is sacked from Jim's Cafe. Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton become engaged.
 * 1985 - The Claytons and the Duckworths fall out over money that they owe each other with Terry and Andrea caught in the middle.
 * 1998 - Vera Duckworth cons Jack into coming out his put-on trance by serving him pigeon pie, supposedly made with his own beloved birds.
 * 2001 - Alma Halliwell is told that she has terminal cancer.
 * 2005 - Cilla Brown starts work at Wong's Chippy.
 * 2007 - Paul Connor is horrified to find that an escort he has booked is Leanne Battersby.

Real world

 * 1946 - Susan Brown (Connie Clayton) born.
 * 1991 - Joseph Aston (Tommy Duckworth) born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 6th May on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1963, 1964, 1968
 * 1970s - 1970, 1974
 * 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009