5th March

Coronation Street history

 * 1923 - Elsie Grimshaw born.
 * 1940 - Norris Cole born.
 * 1958 - Tricia Hopkins born.
 * 1962 - Dennis Tanner organizes a charity concert for the Over-60s.
 * 1973 - The residents are evacuated to the Community Centre following the gas leak in No. 1.
 * 1976 - Samantha Failsworth born.
 * 1984 - Billy Walker returns to take over the Rovers at Annie's request.
 * 1990 - Peter Ingram offers down-on-his-luck Mike Baldwin a job as a sales rep.
 * 1993 - Fantasist Carmel Finnan tells Martin Platt that she's pregnant with his baby.
 * 1999 - Sharon Gaskell and Ian Bentley have their hen and stag nights.
 * 2001 - Emily Bishop plans a surprise birthday part for Norris Cole but he gets drunk with Anthony Stephens and misses it.
 * 2003 - Vera Duckworth attacks Gail Platt over the money that Richard Hillman embezzled from her.
 * 2004 - Fred Elliott proposes to a shocked Penny King.
 * 2007 - Sean Tully is forced to tell Michelle Connor that her fiancé Sonny Dhillon is gay.

Real world

 * 1940 - Malcolm Hebden born.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 5th March on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1962, 1969
 * 1970s - 1973, 1975, 1979
 * 1980s - 1980, 1984, 1986
 * 1990s - 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 2007 (I) (II), 2008