8th March

Coronation Street history

 * 1971 - The women of the street organise a sit-in on the building site for the warehouse.
 * 1982 - Fred Gee falls down the cellar steps of the Rovers. Elsie Tanner's affair with Wilf Stockwell causes Baldwin's Casuals to lose an important order.
 * 1989 - Rita Fairclough searches Alan Bradley's office and finds evidence that he has been using Len's name to obtain funds.
 * 1993 - Ivy Brennan tells Gail Platt that Martin spent a night with Carmel Finnan.
 * 1998 - Jon Lindsay is arrested by the police when Deirdre Rachid tells them where they can find him.
 * 1999 - Curly Watts is horrified to discover that Jackie Dobbs is a legal tenant in his house.
 * 2000 - Fred Elliott threatens Ken Barlow with legal action if he tells anyone that his grandfather, Bernard Cartwright, was a murderer.
 * 2004 - Nick Tilsley saves Janice Battersby from being burned to death in Underworld when she starts a fire by smoking in a storeroom.
 * 2006 - Matt Ramsden demands access to his son, Joshua Peacock.

Real world

 * 1976 - The final episode to be written by Tony Warren for the programme is broadcast.

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


 * 1960s - 1965, 1967
 * 1970s - 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978
 * 1980s - 1982, 1989
 * 1990s - 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
 * 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2004 (I) (II), 2006