29th July

Events

Coronation Street history

• 1964 - Hilda Ogden is taken on as cleaner at the Rovers, a position she would occupy for the next twenty-three years.
• 1970 - Annie Walker returns from Derby a widow, having buried husband Jack there.
• 1981 - The residents watch the Royal Wedding on a colour television in the Select of the Rovers hired by Eddie Yeats when Annie Walker's set breaks down.
• 1987 - Mike Baldwin sacks his own wife Susan for stopping an order leaving the factory to a customer who hadn't paid.
• 1990 - Ed and Aggie Bailey are married.
• 1991 - Deirdre Barlow discovers boyfriend Phil Jennings is married and that she is just one of his many women.
• 1992 - Don Brennan moves into a B&B after his release from hospital rather than return to wife Ivy.
• 1998 - Hayley Patterson starts work at Underworld.
• 2007 - Jamie Baldwin discovers that Violet Wilson is pregnant with Sean Tully's baby.
• 2013 - Paul Kershaw is charged with a public order offence when police witness him punching Lloyd Mullaney.
• 2016 - Eileen Grimshaw finds out about her son Todd's relationship with Billy Mayhew when she overhears their conversation over a faulty taxi radio.

Real world

• 1933 - Peter Baldwin (Derek Wilton) born.
• 1951 - Bob Mason (acted as Terry Bradshaw and later wrote for the programme) born.
• 1968 - Although scheduled no episode was transmitted on this date due to a half-hour strike (starting at 7.30pm) by technicians at Granada Television. This was one of a series of incidents that occurred as part of the 1968 ITV Strike.
• 1974 - First appearance of Gail Potter.
• 1991 - Final appearance of Phil Jennings.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 29th July on the following years:

• 1960s - 1963, 1964
• 1970s - 1970, 1974
• 1980s - 1981, 1985, 1987
• 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
• 2000s - 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007
• 2010s - 2010, 2011 (I) (II), 2013 (I) (II), 2015, 2019 (I) (II)
• 2020s - 2020, 2022, 2024

28th July

Dates July

30th July

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