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==Events==
  
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*[[8th January]] - [[Ken Barlow]] and [[Denise Osbourne]] get engaged.
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*[[10th January]] - [[Don Brennan]] buys [[5 Coronation Street|No.5]] for £12,000.
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*[[17th January]] - [[Tricia Armstrong]] is sent to [[Styal Prison]] for a week for not paying her TV licence.
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*[[23rd February]] - [[Stephen Reid]] returns to [[Canada]] after his first visit to see his mother [[Audrey Roberts]] and his sister, [[Gail Platt]].
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*[[26th February]] - [[Joyce Smedley]] becomes the [[Rovers]]' new cleaner.
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*[[28th February]] - [[Jim McDonald]] attacks [[Liz McDonald|Liz]] after she admits having had an affair with his army colleague [[Johnny Johnson]].
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*[[6th March]] - Liz McDonald tells Jim that she's divorcing him.
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*[[15th March]] - [[Fiona Middleton]] takes over the salon and names it "[[Hair by Fiona Middleton]]".
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*[[25th March]] - Jim McDonald is arrested by the police for hounding estranged wife Liz.
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*[[27th March]] - Jim McDonald is sent to [[Strangeways]] for three weeks for breaking his bail conditions and hounding Liz.
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*[[1st April]] - [[Reg Holdsworth]] resigns from his job and runs off with his wages clerk, [[Yvonne Bannister]], after she inherited a large sum of money.
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*[[3rd April]] - [[Maureen Holdsworth]] discovers that husband Reg has run off with another woman, Yvonne Bannister.
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*[[8th April]] - The men of the [[Coronation Street, Weatherfield|Street]] make an impulsive purchase of a racehorse - "[[Betty's Hot Shot]]".
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*[[24th April]] - [[Vicky McDonald]] realises that [[Steve McDonald]] has set her up to take the rap for bribing [[Malcolm Fox]] not to give evidence against his smuggling activities.
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*[[26th April]] - Vicky McDonald leaves Steve for getting her involved in his crooked business scams.
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*[[1st May]] - Last appearance of [[Phyllis Pearce]].
 
*[[6th May]] - [[Charlie Hunter]] dies from a heart attack.
  
*[[6th May]] - [[Charlie Hunter]] dies from a heart attack.
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*[[1st July]] - [[Jim McDonald]]'s mother [[Maisie McDonald]] dies of a heart attack in [[Belfast]].
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*[[8th May]] - [[Des Barnes]] has a new girlfriend - [[Claire Palmer]] (First appearance of the character).
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*[[15th May]] - Reg and Maureen Holdsworth agree to divorce terms through their solicitors.
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*[[20th May]] - Des Barnes meets his girlfriend's sulky teenage daughter [[Becky Palmer]] (First appearance of the character).
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*[[24th May]] - Steve McDonald is sentenced to two years in Strangeways.
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*[[7th June]] - Vicky McDonald leaves [[Coronation Street, Weatherfield|Coronation Street]].
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*[[10th June]] - [[Alec Gilroy]] buys [[12 Coronation Street|No.12]] for £29,500. [[Terry Duckworth]] visits [[Jack Duckworth|Jack]] and [[Vera Duckworth|Vera]] and brings their grandson [[Tommy Duckworth|Tommy]].
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*[[21st June]] - Tricia Armstrong and Terry Duckworth sleep together.
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*[[26th June]] - Terry Duckworth signs full custody of his son Tommy over to his grandparents [[Jeff Horton|Jeff]] and [[Doreen Horton]]. Jeff pays Terry £10,000.
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*[[1st July]] - Jim McDonald's mother [[Maisie McDonald]] dies of a heart attack in [[Belfast]].
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*[[17th July]] - [[Samantha Failsworth]] is taken on as a barmaid at the Rovers (First appearance of the character).
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*[[19th July]] - [[MVB Motors]] goes bust under the ownership of Don Brennan and [[Kevin Webster]] is made redundant.
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*[[26th July]] - A talent night at the Rovers goes wrong when a majority of the contestants sing the same Frank Sinatra songs.
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*[[2nd August]] - The police are called when [[Nick Tilsley]] goes missing.
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*[[7th August]] - [[Derek Wilton]] is furious when [[Mavis Wilton|Mavis]] thinks it's his fifty-ninth birthday when in fact it's his sixtieth and he assumed she was planning a surprise party for him.
 
*[[9th August]] - [[Tommy Mook]] dies from a heart attack.
  
*[[9th August]] - [[Tommy Mook]] dies from a heart attack.
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*[[21st August]] - Nick Tilsley turns up at [[8 Coronation Street|home]] after being missing for several weeks.
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*[[26th August]] - Claire and Becky Palmer move into [[6 Coronation Street|No.6]] with Des Barnes.
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*[[6th September]] - The [[Platt family]] fly off to Canada for a holiday (Final appearance of [[Warren Jackson]] in the role of Nick Tilsley).
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*[[20th September]] - The [[Weatherfield Historical Society]] includes [[4 Coronation Street|No.4]] on its sight-seeing tour with Mavis Wilton's permission although she is puzzled as to why her house is of historical interest. She is horrified when the tour guide speaks of it as the site of [[Ernest Bishop]]'s murder in [[1978]] and his widow [[Emily Bishop|Emily]] overhears the commentary.
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*[[25th September]] - The Platts return from seeing Stephen Reid in Canada but Nick Tilsley has remained there to study.
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*[[27th September]] - Tricia Armstrong visits husband [[Carl Armstrong|Carl]] in Strangeways to tell him that she's finished with him. He attacks her when she tells him that she's pregnant.
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*[[7th October]] - At a party to celebrate his seventieth birthday, [[Alf Roberts]] is horrified to discover that his present from Audrey is a stay at a health farm.
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*[[18th October]] - [[Ashley Peacock]] becomes a lodger at No.5.
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*[[6th November]] - [[Tracy Barlow]] visits Ken Barlow and [[Deirdre Rachid]] to break the news that she's getting married.
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*[[8th November]] - Fiona Middleton meets an admirer, policeman [[Alan McKenna]], when she has a singing engagement at [[Shirelle's]] nightclub.
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*[[13th November]] - Tracy Barlow marries [[Robert Preston]] at [[Weatherfield Registry Office]].
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*[[15th November]] - [[Raquel Watts]] leaves husband [[Curly Watts|Curly]] and moves to [[Kuala Lumpur]].
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*[[22nd November]] - Denise Osbourne and [[Brian Dunkley]] show up at [[1 Coronation Street|No.1]] to take Denise's son [[Daniel Osbourne|Daniel]] away with thim. Denise walked out on Daniel's father Ken Barlow earlier in the year and showed no interest in the child. Ken's nanny [[Kelly Thomson]] is unable to contact Ken to warn him.
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*[[24th November]] - Ken Barlow arrives at No.1 too late to stop Denise Osbourne and Brian Dunkley leaving with Ken and Denise's son Daniel. [[Fred Elliott]] asks [[Rita Sullivan]] to marry him.
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*[[25th November]] - Ken Barlow reluctantly asks live-in child carer Kelly Thomson to move out of No.1 as his [[Margaret Dunbar|solicitor]] tells him that her presence will look bad in his case against Denise Osbourne to gain custody of their son Daniel.
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*[[9th December]] - [[Mike Baldwin]] sacks machinist Tricia Armstrong to get out of paying her while she is on maternity leave. [[Sally Webster]] resigns on principle, but Mike refuses to budge.
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*[[20th December]] - Kelly Thomson leaves [[Weatherfield]] for [[Scotland]] (Final appearance of the character).
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*[[23rd December]] - Don Brennan attempts suicide in [[Martin Platt]]'s car.
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*[[25th December]] - Martin Platt rescues Don Brennan from killing himself. Curly Watts sleeps with Maureen Holdsworth.
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*[[29th December]] - Curly Watts sleeps with [[Maxine Heavey]] on his last night in Weatherfield.
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*[[30th December]] - Curly Watts changes his mind about emigrating to [[France]] on the day that he was supposed to go.
   
 
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