1960 – First episode airs
1961 – First birth (Paul Cheveski)
1962 – Ken Barlow marries Valerie Tatlock
1963 – Sheila Birtles’ suicide attempt considered too harrowing and rewritten
1964 – Martha Longhurst dies in the Rovers Return
1965 – Number 7 collapses
1966 – Bet Lynch first appears
1967 – Train crashes off the viaduct
1968 – The murder of Steve Tanner
1969 – First colour episode airs
1970 – 1000th episode transmitted
1971 – Valerie Barlow electrocuted
1972 – Deirdre Hunt first appears
1973 – Rita starts work at The Kabin
1974 – First foreign location filming takes place in Majorca
1975 – Warehouse fire
1976 – Hilda Ogden gets her ‘muriel’
1977 – Tracy Langton born
1978 – Ernest Bishop shot in wages snatch
1979 – Lorry crashes into the Rovers
1980 – Nicky Tilsley born
1981 – Ken marries Deirdre
1982 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the new outdoor Street set
1983 – Deirdre and Mike Baldwin’s affair grips the nation
1984 – Elsie Tanner leaves the Street
1985 – Alf Roberts marries Audrey Potter
1986 – Fire at the Rovers Return
1987 – More than 26 million viewers tune in for Hilda’s final appearance
1988 – Mavis Riley and Derek Wilton marry
1989 – Alan Bradley killed by a Blackpool tram
1990 – Rosie Webster and David Platt born
1991 – Raquel Wolstenhulme first appears
1992 – Mike Baldwin and Alma Sedgewick marry
1993 – Reg Holdsworth and Maureen Naylor’s waterbed disaster
1994 – Norris Cole first appears
1995 – Raquel marries Curly Watts in the 35 th anniversary episode
1996 – Jim McDonald hits wife Liz
1997 – The Battersby family arrives
1998 – Deirdre sent to prison
1999 – Ashley Peacock marries Maxine Heavey
2000 – Live episode for the 40 th anniversary
2001 – Steve McDonald marries Karen Phillips
2002 – Gail Platt marries Richard Hillman
2003 – Richard confesses to murder and tries to drown his family
2004 – Maya Sharma sets fire to the Corner Shop
2005 – Katy Harris murders her father Tommy
2006 – Mike Baldwin dies from Alzheimer’s disease
2007 – Tracy Barlow kills Charlie Stubbs and is imprisoned
2008 – Tony Gordon arranges Liam Connor’s death
2009 – Steve marries Becky Granger
2010 – The tram cash live episode for the 50th anniversary
2011 - Carla's rape at the hands of Frank Foster
2012 - Kirsty's domestic abuse of Tyrone
2013 - Rovers' second fire
2014 - Who killed Tina?
2015 - Deirdre's death
2016 - Kylie stabbed to death in the street
2017 - Bethany’s grooming
2018 - Aidan's suicide
2019 - Sinead's cervical cancer
2020 - Geoff's abuse of Yasmeen
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I'm disappointed that neither Sarah giving birth to Bethany at age 13 nor Toyah's rape storyline wasn't included in the list but Nick's birth and the 'who killed Tina[who cares?]? storyline were included?!
ReplyDeleteBethany's birth \Jake Webster's birth and death and Toyah's rape were dramatic landmark episodes whereas Tina is now forgotten in the Street and singling out Nick's birth is ridiculous.