23rd August

Events

Coronation Street history

• 1941 - Jerry Booth is born.
• 1965 - Len Fairclough gives Jerry Booth his birthday present - a formal partnership in his building company which is now named "Fairclough and Booth".
• 1978 - Betty Turpin and Eddie Yeats appear on the cover of the first issue of the Newton & Ridley magazine Over the Bar - a jealous Annie Walker and Bet Lynch are not pleased.
• 1982 - Len and Rita Fairclough move into the newly-rebuilt No.7 while Chalkie Whitely and his grandson Craig move into the vacant No.9.
• 1995 - Death of Ivy Brennan.
• 1998 - Toyah Battersby makes a hoax bomb threat to a magazine that refuses to print her work. The police trace the call to No.5.
• 2000 - Leanne Battersby leaves Weatherfield for Amsterdam, desperate to escape the stalking actions of Jez Quigley.
• 2002 - Doreen Heavey buys a house-name sign as a present for Ashley and Maxine Peacock - No.4 is duly named "Balmoral".
• 2004 - A shocked Karen McDonald receives a visit from her estranged father Malcolm Phillips who was violent towards her when she was a child.
• 2010 - Steve and Becky McDonald face an adoption panel and are not recommended as parents because of a bad reference from Becky's half-sister Kylie Turner.
• 2013 - Chesney Brown and Katy Armstrong get back together.
• 2017 - Chesney Brown suffers a panic attack, abandoning his niece Hope Stape and Ruby Dobbs on a bus.

Real world

• 1954 - Ian Bartholomew (Geoff Metcalfe) born.
• 1961 - Coronation Street reaches No.1 in the viewing charts for the first time.
• 1980 - Joanne Froggatt (Zoe Tattersall) born.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 23rd August on the following years:

• 1960s - 1961, 1965, 1967
• 1970s - 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978
• 1980s - 1982, 1989
• 1990s - 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
• 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2004 (I) (II), 2006
• 2010s - 2010 (I) (II), 2012, 2013 (I) (II), 2017
• 2020s - 2021 (I) (II), 2023, 2024

22nd August

Dates August

24th August

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