29th April

Coronation Street history

 * 1964 - Jerry and Myra Booth's money problems get worse when their electricity is cut off.
 * 1968 - Dennis Tanner and Jenny Sutton set their wedding date.
 * 1970 - Ken and Irma Barlow have a furious row over David's death.
 * 1981 - Elsie Tanner's home is wrecked by Muriel Fielding after she discovers that she spent the night with her husband Bill.
 * 1998 - Forced by Vera Duckworth, Jack sees a hypno-therapist for help with stopping smoking but he uses the session to con everyone that he has been regressed into a past life - "Lusty Jack", an Eighteenth Century rake.
 * 2002 - Geena Gregory discovers that fiancé Dev Alahan slept with Dierdre Rachid the previous Christmas and breaks off her engagement with him.

Real world

 * 1961 - Westward Television launched. Episode 40 is the first episode of Coronation Street to be broadcast there on Monday 1st May.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 29th April on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1963, 1964, 1968
 * 1970s - 1970, 1974
 * 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2002 (I) (II), 2005, 2007, 2009