12th May

Coronation Street history

 * 1975 - Having broken off his plan to marry Deirdre Hunt, Billy Walker leaves for Jersey.
 * 1976 - Albert Tatlock tells Ken Barlow that he's disgusted with him for living with Wendy Nightingale, a married woman.
 * 1982 - Eddie Yeats and Marion Willis hold an engagement party in the Rovers at which two of the guests are Cyril and Wesley McGregor from Liverpool (the two characters would appear in their own spin-off three years later - The Brothers McGregor). At the party Mike Baldwin meets Maggie Dunlop (first appearance of the characters).
 * 1993 - Gary Mallett marries Judy Smedley. Reg Holdsworth becomes engaged to Maureen Naylor.
 * 2002 - Not realising her husband Richard's hidden financial difficulties, Patricia Hillman turns up demanding that he buy her out of their joint business arrangement.
 * 2003 - Adam Barlow runs away from his boarding school and turns up at No.1.
 * 2006 - In an effort to set up Kelly Crabtree, Becky Granger steals Blanche Hunt's and Fiz Brown's purses.
 * 2008 - Gail Platt meets her father Ted Page for the first time and is shocked when he reveals that he is gay.

Real world

 * 1982 - The Grape Street set used for outdoor shots of the Street since 1968 is seen for the last time.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 12th May on the following years:


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