8th May

Coronation Street history

 * 1961 - Harry Hewitt's sister and housekeeper Alice Burgess tells him she's leaving to take up a paid position. He's angry as this means that Lucille will have to go back to the orphanage.
 * 1967 - A train crashes through the viaduct and onto the street.
 * 1974 - Hilda Ogden leaves for a working holiday as a cleaner aboard a cruise ship - the Monte Umber.
 * 1978 - Annie Walker is furious when Fred Gee collects her from the Airport in Len Fairclough's van as the Rover has been stolen.
 * 1992 - Their marriage over, Steph Barnes walks out on Des (Final appearance of the character).
 * 1995 - A party is held in the Rovers to mark the fiftieth anniversary of VE-Day and Betty Turpin is surprised when Billy Williams, an old flame, appears recreating a pub crawl he made half a century before (First appearance of the character).
 * 1996 - Des Barnes has a new girlfriend - Claire Palmer (First appearance of the character).
 * 1998 - A distressed and unstable Zoe Tattersall walks off with baby Morgan Middleton. After a search she is found teetering on the edge of a canal bank.
 * 2002 - Fred Elliott's bigamist wife Eve threatens to take the Rovers off him as it's legally hers.
 * 2005 - Les Battersby and Cilla Brown become engaged in order that they can replace their broken household goods with new ones as wedding presents.
 * 2006 - Roy's Rolls is closed due to environmental health issues.
 * 2009 - Ken Barlow confesses to Deirdre that he was going to leave her for Martha Fraser.

Real world
None yet.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 8th May on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968
 * 1970s - 1972, 1974, 1978
 * 1980s - 1985, 1989
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 (I) (II), 2009 (I) (II)
 * The Brothers McGregor - Victorian Porn (1986)