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The Langtons welcome their first child
- Julie Carp is born. Her mother is fourteen-year-old Paula Carp. Julie doesn't find out that her father is Colin Grimshaw until 2009.
- 5th January - With Hilda Ogden ill, her husband Stan takes over her job as cleaner at the Rovers, but does such a bad job that Annie Walker refuses to pay Hilda.
- 8th January - Victoria Arden, granddaughter of Alec Gilroy, is born.
- 10th January - First appearance of Suzie Birchall.
- 12th January - Gail Potter is appointed manageress of Sylvia's Separates over Suzie Birchall.
- 19th January - Deirdre Langton is on her own when she goes into labour. She is taken to Weatherfield General to have the baby.
- 24th January - Tracy Langton is born to Ray and Deirdre Langton.
- 31st January - Hilda Ogden tells Stan that she wants No.13's house number changed, as their constant bad luck may be down to the number 13.
- 2nd February - 13 Coronation Street briefly changes its house number to 12a.
- 7th February - Ray Langton registers his daughter's name as "Tracy Lynette Langton" without telling his wife Deirdre.
- 14th February - Janet Barlow returns to her husband Ken after two years, although he doesn't want to get back with her.
- 21st February - Janet Barlow dies of a drug overdose.
- 23rd February - Elsie Howard allows Suzie Birchall to lodge permanently at No.11
- 28th February - The coroner brings in a verdict of suicide at the inquest into the death of Janet Barlow.
- 2nd March - Bet Lynch and Mike Baldwin have an acrimonious parting after Mike's common-law wife, Anne Woodley, arrives from London.
- 7th March - Suzie Birchall cleans the chimney at No.11 by dropping a brick down it, but ends up covering the Ogdens' living room in soot.
- 14th March - Albert Tatlock returns from Scotland to the news of Janet Barlow's death.
- 16th March - Mike Baldwin agrees to sell No.5 to Ray Langton for £2,500.
- 21st March - Len Fairclough stops Rita Littlewood flying to Tenerife on a singing engagement with a proposal of marriage.
- 28th March - Ray and Deirdre Langton move into No.5.
- 30th March - At the last minute, Rita Littlewood decides not to leave for Tenerife, but to stay and marry Len Fairclough.
- 20th April - Len Fairclough and Rita Littlewood marry at St. Mary's Church.
- 2nd May - Albert Tatlock wins a competition to rename Mike Baldwin's denim shop as the Western Front.
- 4th May - Tracy Langton is christened.
- 11th May - Elsie Howard is dumped by Ted Brownlow when he hears that she has been married three times already.
- 16th May - Mavis Riley moves into The Kabin flat
- 18th May - Against her wishes, Suzie Birchall and Gail Potter enter Elsie Howard in a "Glamorous Grannie" contest in the Gazette.
- 25th May - Elsie Howard agrees to divorce her husband Alan as Elaine Dennett wants to marry him.
- 1st June - Tracy Langton wins the Bonny Jubilee Baby Contest, and as a prize, Ray and Deirdre Langton win a free weekend in London.
- 6th June - The residents celebrate the Silver Jubilee. The lorry for the float won't start however as the battery is dead.
- 8th June - The residents realise it was Stan Ogden's fault that the van powering their Silver Jubilee float wouldn't start.
- 15th June - Ena Sharples has a fall while babysitting Tracy Langton.
- July - Geena Gregory is born.
- 6th July - Bet Lynch and Renee Bradshaw are lured by two men, Les Fox and Eric Bailey to a non-existent party in Ashton-under-Lyne in order to give them a chance to rob the Corner Shop.
- 3rd August - Betty Turpin threatens to sue Annie Walker for defamation of character when she hears that Annie's been telling Nellie Harvey that she's dishonest.
- 17th August - Mavis Riley's domineering Auntie Edie dies in her bed while Mavis is at work.
- 24th August - Len Fairclough and Ray Langton enter in a new partnership agreement that is more favourable to Ray, although they agree not to tell their wives who would be in opposition to each other over such a change.
- 29th August - Steve Fisher is taken on at Baldwin's Casuals (First appearance of the character).
- 14th September - Steve Fisher is sacked from Baldwin's Casuals when he takes Suzie Birchall and Gail Potter to the sands at Southport (where the van gets stuck) instead of doing a delivery.
- 19th October - The residents put on a surprise party for Annie Walker to celebrate forty years as the Rovers' landlady. Deirdre Langton is followed home at night and molested.
- 7th November - Annie Walker realises that her much-lauded cousin Charles Beaumont is a conman who has been fleecing the residents. She sends him off with the money to pay his debts.
- 14th November - Stan and Hilda Ogden go on a second honeymoon.
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