12th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1963 - Len Fairclough tells Elsie Tanner that his divorce from Nellie will be absolute in three months and asks her to marry him.
 * 1987 - Alec Gilroy finds Bet Lynch in a bar in Torremolinos and proposes marriage to her.
 * 1992 - Alec Gilroy is offered a job in Southampton and wants him and Bet to give up the Rovers in order that he can take up the offer.
 * 1998 - Mike Baldwin sacks Hayley Cropper to avoid problems should the other factory staff find out that she was a man.
 * 2001 - Roy and Hayley Cropper are arrested for absconding with abused child Wayne Hayes.
 * 2005 - Sunita Alahan has a pre-natal scan and discovers that she is expecting twins.

Real world

 * 1984 - Christine Hargreaves (Christine Appleby) died.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 12th August on the following years:


 * 1960s - 1963, 1964
 * 1970s - 1970, 1974
 * 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007