24th March

Coronation Street history

 * 1965 - Leonard Swindley is caught by the police giving driving lessons to Emily Nugent on an expired licence.
 * 1971 - Lucille Hewitt remembers Margaret Lacey as a girl who bullied her at the orphanage and is afraid of what she is doing to Peter and Susan Barlow now that she is their nanny.
 * 1980 - Elsie Tanner and Bet Lynch fight in the Rovers over lorry driver Dan Johnson.
 * 1995 - Tracy Barlow is rushed to hospital having taken an ecstacy pill.
 * 2000 - A distraught Natalie Barnes is told that the dead body found on the Victoria Street development is her estranged son Tony Horrocks.
 * 2002 - Fiz Brown stages a rooftop (and topless!) protest over her sacking from Underworld.
 * 2003 - Sharon Unwin's funeral takes place vbut Peter Barlow manages to get away for several hours to marry Lucy Carmichael (first appearance of Bev Unwin).

Real world

 * 1997 - Ashleigh Middleton makes her final appearance as Sophie Webster. When the character returned on 29th June 1997 she was played by Emma Woodward.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 24th March on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1965, 1969
 * 1970s - 1971, 1975, 1976
 * 1980s - 1980, 1982, 1986
 * 1990s - 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2003 (I) (II), 2004, 2006, 2008 (I) (II)
 * The QE2 Video (1997)