5th August

Coronation Street history

 * 1919 - Arnold Tanner born.
 * 1968 - Convict Frank Riley traps a terrified Valerie Barlow in No.14. Ena Sharples realises something is wrong and alters the police who surround the maisonettes.
 * 1970 - Ena finds young organist Tony Parsons playing the harmonium in the Victoria Street mission and realises that the boy has a talent.
 * 1987 - Alan Bradley takes Rita Fairclough to the registry office for what he hopes will be a surprise wedding but she angrily turns him down.
 * 1991 - Jim McDonald helps the twins set up an amateur radio station, mistakenly thinking it will keep them out of trouble.
 * 1992 - Curly Watts goes on a blind date with someone he has been matched with by a dating agency - he is stunned to find that it is his old girlfriend Kimberley Taylor.
 * 2005 - In order to revenge himself on Tracy Barlow for getting a control order on him stopping him from seeing daughter Amy, Steve McDonald provokes her in the bar of the Rovers to the point where she attacks him and is arrested by the police.

Real world

 * 1920 - John Sharp (Les Clegg) born.
 * 1953 - Lawrence Mullin (Steve Fisher) born.
 * 1975 - Antony Cotton (Sean Tully) born.

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


 * 1960s - 1963, 1964, 1968
 * 1970s - 1970, 1974
 * 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
 * 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * 2000s - 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007