10th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1895 - Albert Tatlock born.
 * 1964 - The Hewitts decide to move to Ireland although Lucille refuses to go with them.
 * 1970 - Annie Walker applies for the licence for the Rovers in replacement of the recently-deceased Jack.
 * 1983 - Albert celebrates his eighty-eighth birthday with a surprise party during which his daughter Beattie Pearson turns up unexpectedly.
 * 1987 - Alec Gilroy flies out to Torremolinos to find Bet Lynch who has gone there to escape her debts.
 * 1988 - The Street residents go on a coach trip to Blackpool where Audrey Roberts' former lover Malcolm Reid asks her to leave Alf for him. Audrey refuses.
 * 1994 - Gail Platt visits Ivy Brennan in her religious retreat who tells her that she is never returning to the Street.
 * 1997 - Samantha Failsworth confronts her personal demons when at Des Barnes's encouragement she visits Ian Phillips, a family friend who raped her in her youth. She finds that he died a year before.
 * 2005 - Lloyd Mullaney buys Dev Alahan's share of Street Cars.

Real world

 * 1979 - With the exception of Channel Television the whole of the ITV network is blacked out at the start of the one of the longest-running disputes in British television. The stations would not start broadcasting again until 24th October.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 10th August on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1964, 1966
 * 1970s - 1970, 1977
 * 1980s - 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988
 * 1990s - 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
 * The Brothers McGregor - Name the Day? (1988)