5th July

Coronation Street history

 * 1961 - Billy Walker is offered a job in Chiswick as his parents go on holiday to Torquay, not realising that they will be losing their son.
 * 1967 - The Lawson family, squatting in No.3 to avoid being split up in care, are taken away by the police when Len Fairclough reports them.
 * 1976 - Eddie Yeats becomes a lodger of the Ogdens when he finds some cheap wallpaper for Hilda - unfortunately half of it is faded (Eddie's solution was the paper the fourth wall with the famous "Muriel").
 * 1978 - The strike at Baldwin's Casuals ends when Mike Baldwin agrees to reinstate the sacked Hilda Ogden.
 * 1982 - Mike's father, Frankie Baldwin dies.
 * 1991 - Mike Baldwin marries Jackie Ingram but things go wrong from the start when Jackie tells him she's selling the very factory he married her for.
 * 1993 - Brendan Scott takes over the Corner Shop and immediately starts to annoy both his staff and his customers.
 * 1995 - Alec Gilroy succeeds in stopping Victoria Arden marrying Steve McDonald, for the moment...
 * 1998 - As part of her election campaign for the council Audrey Roberts replaces the current photographs of herself on the posters with ones taken in the 1960s.
 * 2000 - Alma Halliwell discovers that Mike Baldwin's son and girlfriend, Mark Redman and Linda Sykes are having an affair.
 * 2002 - Temporary Rovers landlady Lillian Spencer sacks Jack Duckworth in favour of her son Timothy.
 * 2004 - The elder ladies of the Street successfully disrupt the unveiling of an expensive tribute fountain in memory of Alf Roberts but Betty Williams is taken ill during the protest.

Real world
None yet.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 5th July 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)