27th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1962 - Valerie Barlow opens the first of a long line of hair salons in the Street.
 * 1973 - The residents of the Street have a men versus women bowls match with the men taking the prize.
 * 1993 - Raquel Wolstenhulme applies for a place at The Mayfair Academy of Modelling in Croydon, calling herself Nadia
 * 1997 - Shannon Tattersall is born.
 * 1999 - Maud Grimes is left £10,000 in the will of her late fiancé Sidney Templeton.
 * 2001 - The Poteen that Jack Duckworth was brewing in his allotment potting shed explodes.
 * 2003 - Tracy Barlow offers to sell her unborn baby to Roy and Hayley Cropper for £20,000.
 * 2007 - Hayley Cropper's beloved Auntie Monica dies.
 * 2008 - Jerry Morton collapses, poisoned with an overdose of warfarin tablets by his ex-wife Teresa Bryant.

Real world

 * 1984 - Bernard Youens (Stan Ogden) dies.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 27th August on the following years:


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