7th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1961 - Albert Tatlock's niece Valerie calls on him to tell him that her family are moving to Glasgow and to ask if she can stay with him (First appearance of the character).
 * 1967 - The police are called in to investigate the sudden disappearance of Hilda Ogden.
 * 1968 - Valerie Barlow is rescued from convicted rapist Frank Riley who traps her in her maisonette flat.
 * 1974 - At the last minute the Ogdens are told they are not getting the promised jobs of caretakers of the Community Centre.
 * 1996 - Derek Wilton is furious when Mavis thinks it's his fifty-ninth birthday when in fact it's hi sixtieth and he assumed she was planning a surprise party for him.
 * 2000 - The trial of Jez Quigley for the murder of Tony Horrocks begins.
 * 2002 - Ciaran McCarthy, an old navy friend of Peter Barlow turns up on the Street (First appearance of the character).
 * 2006 - Adam Barlow reports Danny Baldwin to the police for suppressing Mike Baldwin's second will.

Real world

 * 1982 - Vicky Binns (Molly Dobbs) born.
 * 1983 - Tina O'Brien (Sarah Louise Grimshaw) born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 7th August 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)