28th July

Coronation Street history

 * 1965 - Fellow landlady Nellie Harvey visits the Rovers and tells Annie Walker she plans to put her forward as chairman of the Licenced Victualler committee (First appearance of the character).
 * 1980 - Renee Roberts is involved in a head-on collision between her car and lorry when she and Alf go for a drink in the country.
 * 1982 - Len Fairclough agrees to sell No. 9 to Chalkie Whitely.
 * 1986 - Gail Tilsley reveals that she is pregnant but she doesn't know if the father is husband Brian or lover Ian Latimer.
 * 2000 - Spider Nugent leaves Weatherfield to go travelling in India and Norris Cole takes his place as a lodger at No. 3.
 * 2002 - Gail Platt and Richard Hillman are married.

Real world

 * 1933 - Richard Everitt (Floor Manager, Producer and Executive Producer in the 1960s) born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 28th July on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1965, 1969
 * 1970s - 1971, 1975, 1976
 * 1980s - 1980, 1982, 1986
 * 1990s - 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 (I) (II)
 * Pardon the Expression - The Birthday Present (1965).