2nd August

Coronation Street history

 * 1941 - Jerry Booth born.
 * 1961 - Billy Walker leaves Weatherfield for a new job in London.
 * 1967 - Hilda Ogden, suffering from depression, goes missings whilst supposedly visiting her cousins.
 * 1971 - Ernie Bishop and Emily Nugent become engaged.
 * 1972 - A Peeping Tom starts to spy on the women of the Street.
 * 1982 - Mavis Riley realises her budgie Harry is female when she lays an egg. She renames her pet "Harriet".
 * 1991 - Percy Sugden collapses after an asthma attack and is rushed to hospital.
 * 1995 - Wanting to make a good impression on daughter-in-law Sally Webster, Bill cooks a meal but ends up setting fire to the kitchen in No. 13.
 * 1996 - The police are called when Nick Tilsley goes missing.
 * 1999 - Natalie Barnes asks drayman Vinny Sorrell to help her with the Rovers' cellar (First appearance of the character).
 * 2002 - Norris Cole is a medal bearer at the Commonwealth Games but everyone misses the ceremony on television.
 * 2004 - Cilla Brown sets up Les Battersby into a tryst leaving Janice to dump him once and for all.

Real world

 * 1943 - Sandra Gough (Irma Barlow) born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 2nd 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