18th July

Coronation Street history

 * 1962 - The "barm-cake" girls - Sheila Birtles and Doreen Lostock - move into the Corner Shop flat.
 * 1964 - Birth of Angela Harris.
 * 1973 - Elsie Tanner supposedly goes to visit Sheila Crossley in Sheffield but in reality goes to London where Dennis Tanner has been jailed for robbing a pensioner.
 * 1983 - Bert Tilsley is rushed to hospital and put on a life support machine after the gas explosion at the garage.
 * 1984 - Billy Walker blackmails Emily Bishop into lending him money but Mike Baldwin finds out and threatens him.
 * 1994 - Denise Osbourne suffers a miscarriage.
 * 1997 - Jim McDonald and Fiona Middleton start an affair.
 * 2008 - Believing that Steve McDonald has had an affair, Michelle Connor breaks off their engagement and throws him out of the Rovers.

Real world

 * 1946 - Dicken Ashworth (Geoff Horton) born.
 * 1967 - Writer Paul Cornell born.
 * 2004 - Director Sebastian Graham-Jones died.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 18th July 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)