Events
Coronation Street history
- 1902 - The Rovers Return Inn officially opens for business. Local landowners Charles Hardcastle and Mabel Grimshaw pull the first pints. Jim and Nellie Corbishley are the first landlords.
- 1961 - Frank Barlow is promoted at the Post Office while Ken Barlow takes Valerie Tatlock out for the first time.
- 1971 - Alan Howard and Janet Reid start to get close with each other, leading to an affair.
- 1989 - Mother of two Gail Tilsley begins a relationship with Martin Platt who is ten years her junior.
- 1993 - Jim McDonald discovers that separated wife Liz is seeing Colin Barnes. To everyone's surprise he wishes them well.
- 2004 - Norris Cole angers Emily Bishop when he pays her overdue council tax that she was withholding as a protest.
- 2006 - Homeless Craig Harris moves in with the Croppers and starts helping out at Roy's Rolls.
- 2010 - Natasha Blakeman tells Nick Tilsley that she's pregnant with his baby. Bill Webster sells the Builder's Yard to Owen Armstrong.
- 2012 - Katy Armstrong offers to be a surrogate for Gary Windass and Izzy Armstrong.
- 2013 - Craig Tinker reveals to Karl Munro that he started the Rovers fire that killed Toni Griffiths and Sunita Alahan. Karl - the true culprit - scares Craig into silence by telling him that he'll go to prison.
Real world
- 1943 - Director Alan Wareing born.
Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 16th August 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
- 2010s - 2010 (I) (II), 2012, 2013 (I) (II)
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