Today in Soap Opera History (February 21)

1986: Days' Savannah was stabbed. 1991: Another World's Kathleen came face to face with Frankie.
1997: All My Children's Adam and Liza shared a kiss. 2006: General Hospital's Courtney died.

On this day in...

1947: On radio soap opera Life Can Be Beautiful, Hank and Dolly came to visit the downcast Chichi (Alice Reinheart).

1949: John Haggart's television soap opera A Woman to Remember premiered on the Dumont network. The main focus of the soap-within-a-soap series was the backstage drama of a radio serial. Radio soap opera star Christine Baker (Patricia Wheel) was the central heroine who had to spend much of her time dealing with malicious Carol Winstead (Joan Catlin), who fought against her both at work and in Christine's relationship with Steve Hammond (John Raby).

1968: "I am an unmarried woman and became pregnant..." So began Dr Althea Davis's (Elizabeth Hubbard) testimony to the board of directors at Hope Memorial Hospital on The Doctors.


1975: On The Doctors, Dr. Maggie Powers (Lydia Bruce) was concerned when she heard Greta (Jennifer Houlton) talking to her late brother, Mike. Greta told Maggie that Mike was alive in another man's body.

1978: Eddie Moran debuted as Danny Wolek on One Life to Live.



1980: On The Edge of Night, Cliff (Ernie Townsend) called Deborah (Frances Fisher) and Elliot (Lee Godardt) to the witness stand at Draper's (Tony Craig) trial.



1986: On Days of our Lives, Savannah Wilder (Shannon Tweed) was stabbed at the hospital by a man hired by Alex Marshall to attack Dr. Marlena Evans Brady so Savannah could save her and impress Chris Kositchek.

1991: On Another World, Frankie Frame (Alice Barrett) tracked down a very much alive Kathleen McKinnon Winthrop (Julie Osburn) in Texas.



1995: On Another World, Bunny Eberhardt (Marcia McCabe) -- having intercepted a bag full of money delivered to Jake McKinnon (Tom Eplin) from Vicky Hudson -- threatened to kill Paulina (Judi Evans) and Jake (Tom Eplin), who had been tied up with rope. Just as Eberhardt was about to shoot Paulina, Jake broke free and intervened.  Paulina stopped Jake from killing Bunny and he called the police to pick her up.



1996: On All My Children, Jason Sheffield (Richard Roland) remembered having a handgun just as Laurel was shot.

1996: On All My Children, Adam Chandler (David Canary) and Liza Colby (Marcy Walker) shared a kiss.



1996: On Guiding Light, Blake (Elzabeth Keifer) and Rick (Michael O'Leary) spent the evening getting drunk and wallowing in self-pity; Annie told Vanessa that she was going to Cross Creek to find Josh and Reva; Reva informed Josh she was ready to sign the divorce papers, but then made another attempt to keep him by her side; Matt confessed his past to Ross in order to stop him from becoming involved with Amanda Spaulding; Rick put Blake in her bed and wound up staying there himself; and Annie visited Marah, who ran away after Annie left.

2005: NBC aired the 10,000th episode of Days of our Lives.

2006: On General Hospital, Courtney Matthews (Alicia Leigh Willis) flatlined and died before telling Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher) the truth about her son, making her another casualty of the encephalitis outbreak that plagued Port Charles.



2011: The 2nd Annual Indie Soap Awards were held at Alvin Ailey Studios in New York, hosted by As the World Turns Emmy winner Martha Byrne. Diary of a Single Mom was named the best indie series of the year, while Guiding Light star Jordan Clarke was named Outstanding Supporting Actor for his work in Venice.



2012: The 3rd Annual Indie Soap Awards were held at New World Stages in New York. Ragged Isle was named best drama series, while Pretty was awarded the best comedy prize.  Former As the World Turns child actress Colleen Broomall, who played Dani Andropoulos, hosted the red carpet show for We Love Soaps TV. Watch it below, including her reunion with ATWT's Colleen Zenk (Barbara Ryan).

Today's Birthdays

Tyne Daly (ex-Caroline, General Hospital) - 80
Christine Ebersole (ex-Maxie, One Life to Live; ex-Lily, Ryan's Hope) - 73
Kelsey Grammer (ex-Dr. Canard, Another World) - 70
Jack Coleman (ex-Daniel, Scandal; ex-Bill, The Vampire Diaries; ex-Steven, Dynasty; ex-Jake, Days of our Lives) - 68
Christopher Atkins (ex-Peter, Dallas) - 65
William Baldwin (ex-William, Gossip Girl; ex-Gordon, Parenthood; ex-Patrick, Dirty Sexy Money) - 63
Bronwen Booth (ex-Andrea, One Life to Live) - 62
Jennifer Love Hewitt (ex-Sarah, Party of Five) - 47
Ashley Greene (ex-Amanda, Pan Am; ex-Renata, Desire) - 39
Corbin Bleu (ex-Jeffrey, One Life to Live) - 37
Sophie Turner (ex-Sansa, Game of Thrones) - 30