8th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1902 - Construction of Coronation Street comes to an end, the day before the Coronation of King Edward the Seventh and the arrival of the first residents.
 * 1936 - Derek Wilton born.
 * 1973 - Alan Howard discovers from the police that the missing Elsie is in London, unconscious in hospital after having been knocked down by a taxi.
 * 1984 - On his birthday, Derek Wilton proposes to Mavis Riley.
 * 1990 - Mike Baldwin interviews Jackie Ingram, posing as "Jackie Williams" in order to spy on Mike's operation for her husband, rival Peter Ingram (First appearance of the character).
 * 1999 - Blanche Hunt returns to Weatherfield to stay permanently. Jack Duckworth suffers a major heart attack.
 * 2001 - Fiz Brown returns to the Street and is taken on at Underworld.
 * 2003 - Karen McDonald demands a divorce from Steve in order that they can re-marry with a full blown wedding and not a quick Registry Office service.
 * 2007 - Angela Hawthorne's funeral takes place and Norris meets two more of her previous ex-husbands.
 * 2008 - Tony Gordon tries to force elderly resident Jed Stone from his home in order that he can redevelop the house (First appearance of the character since 1966).

Real world

 * 1979 - As the 1979 ITV Strike started to gather pace HTV and Thames Television were blacked out and viewers in the regions covered by these stations were unable to see the episode of Coronation Street broadcast on this day. This was also the final time that viewers in the other ITV regions were able to watch the programme until 24th October as the rest of the network came out on strike on 10th August.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 8th August on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1962, 1966
 * 1970s - 1973, 1977, 1979
 * 1980s - 1983, 1984, 1988
 * 1990s - 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999
 * 2000s - 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 (I) (II), 2007, 2008 (I) (II)