29th July

Coronation Street history

 * 1964 - Hilda Ogden is taken on as cleaner at the Rovers, a position she would occupy for the next twenty-three years.
 * 1968 - At a party at No. 3 the fact of Dickie and Audrey Fleming's recent wedding is revealed to the neighbours.
 * 1970 - Annie Walker returns from Derby a widow, having buried husband Jack there.
 * 1981 - The residents watch the Royal Wedding on a colour television in the Select of the Rovers hired by Eddie Yeats when Annie's set breaks down.
 * 1987 - Mike Baldwin sacks his own wife Susan for stopping an order leaving the factory to a customer who hadn't paid.
 * 1991 - Deirdre Barlow discovers boyfriend Phil Jennings is married and that she is just one of his many women.
 * 1992 - Don Brennan moves into a B&B after his release from hospital rather than return to wife Ivy.
 * 1998 - Hayley Patterson starts work at Underworld.
 * 2007 - Jamie Baldwin discovers that Violet Wilson is pregnant with Sean Tully's baby.

Real world

 * 1933 - Peter Baldwin (Derek Wilton) born.
 * 1951 - Bob Mason (acted as Terry Bradshaw and later wrote for the programme) born.
 * 1968 - Disenfranchised Associated Rediffusion broadcasts its final episode of Coronation Street while the newly-established Yorkshire Television shows the programme for the first time.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 29th July 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