11th August

Events

Coronation Street history

• 1909 - Annie Beaumont (later Walker) born.
• 1930 - Ernest Bishop born.
• 1963 - Stella Price born.
• 1965 - Emily Nugent and Minnie Caldwell get blind drunk after sampling home brew that Charlie Moffitt and Stan Ogden left in No.5 believing that it's a tonic drink.
• 1971 - Ernest Bishop and Emily Nugent hold an engagement party at which one of the guests is Mavis Riley, Emily's colleague from work.
• 1986 - After the disastrous fire of 18th June, the refurbishments to the Rovers are completed and Bet Lynch asks Hilda Ogden if she will officially open the pub in her capacity of being its longest-serving employee.
• 1999 - Jack Duckworth undergoes a heart bypass operation.
• 2000 - Jez Quigley is found not guilty for the murder of Tony Horrocks and threatens Steve McDonald for giving evidence against him.
• 2003 - Les Battersby is released from Strangeways Jail after serving time for the trumped-up charge of assaulting Mick Hopwood.
• 2004 - Dev Alahan declares his love to Sunita Parekh, in front of fiancée Maya Sharma.
• 2006 - Jason Grimshaw and Sarah Platt celebrate their stag and hen nights prior to their wedding.
• 2011 - Chris Gray gets confirmation that he has a brain tumour.

Real world

• 1932 - Director John Gorrie born.
• 1968 - Gray O'Brien (Tony Gordon) born.
• 1971 - First appearance of Mavis Riley.
• 1982 - Alan Halsall (Tyrone Dobbs) born.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 11th August on the following years:

• 1960s - 1965, 1969
• 1970s - 1971, 1975, 1976
• 1980s - 1980, 1982, 1986
• 1990s - 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
• 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 (I) (II)
• 2010s - 2011, 2014 (I) (II), 2017 (I) (II)
• 2020s - 2021 (I) (II), 2023
• Pardon the Expression - The Old One-Two (1965)

10th August

Dates August

12th August

(With amendments for this wiki)