25th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1969 - Lucille Hewitt goes to Ireland to get away from Ray Langton (In reality Jennifer Moss went on maternity leave).
 * 1976 - Gail Potter is shocked to be cited in Doreen Thornley's divorce petition after her affair with her husband Roy.
 * 1980 - Martin Cheveski takes a fancy to Karen Oldfield, the new girl employed at Baldwin's Casuals.
 * 1982 - Maggie Dunlop breaks the news to Mike Baldwin that she is pregnant.
 * 1995 - Nick Tilsley discovers that Grandmother Ivy Brennan has left him No. 5 in her will.
 * 1997 - Zoe Tattersall goes into premature labour as a result of her drinking.
 * 2000 - Doreen Horton snatches Tommy Duckworth from his grandparents.
 * 2003 - Depressed over Tracy Barlow's actions, Roy Cropper attempts suicide.
 * 2004 - Karen McDonald's estranged mother dies.

Real world

 * 1931 - Bryan Mosley (Alf Roberts) born.
 * 1960 - Coronation Street is formally commissioned as a series by the senior management of Granada Television.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 25th August 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)