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Events

Coronation Street history

• 1947 - Maggie Dunlop born.
• 1961 - Albert Tatlock's niece Valerie calls on him to tell him that her family are moving to Glasgow and to ask if she can stay with him (First appearance of the character).
• 1967 - The police are called in to investigate the sudden disappearance of Hilda Ogden.
• 1968 - Convict Frank Riley traps a terrified Valerie Barlow in No.14. Ena Sharples realises something is wrong and alerts the police who surround the maisonettes.
• 1974 - At the last minute the Ogdens are told they are not getting the promised jobs of caretakers of the Community Centre.
• 1996 - Derek Wilton is furious when 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.
• 2000 - The trial of Jez Quigley for the murder of Tony Horrocks begins.
• 2002 - Ciaran McCarthy, an old navy friend of Peter Barlow turns up on the Street (First appearance of the character).
• 2006 - Adam Barlow reports Danny Baldwin to the police for suppressing Mike Baldwin's second will.
• 2009 - Joe McIntyre breaks into the Rosamund Street Medical Centre in search of painkillers. He trips a security alarm and is arrested by the police.

Real world

• 1982 - Vicky Binns (Molly Dobbs) born.
• 1983 - Tina O'Brien (Sarah Louise Grimshaw) born.

Episodes

Episodes were broadcast on 7th August on the following years:

• 1960s - 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968
• 1970s - 1972, 1974, 1978
• 1980s - 1985, 1989
• 1990s - 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998
• 2000s - 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 (I) (II), 2009 (I) (II)

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of Doctor Who

• 1924: Newsreader Kenneth Kendall is born; he would guest star as himself in DW: The War Machines.
• 1952: Actor and Comedian Alexei Sayle is born in Liverpool, England. He would guest star as the DJ in DW: Revelation of the Daleks.