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1980: Beverlee McKinsey made her final appearance as Iris on Another World. The show aired its final 90-minute episode that Friday. The following Monday, Iris would be spun off into her own show, Texas.
1981: MTV first aired at 12:01 a.m. General Hospital's Rick Springfield had the No. 1 song in the U.S. that week with "Jessie's Girl," but the new network did not play a Springfield video that first day.
1993: Leonard J. Stabb, Guiding Light's Hart Jessup, was hospitalized in critical condition after a hang-gliding accident.
2005: The BBC World Service launched its first online soap opera, The Flatmates.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Dana Sparks (ex-Grace/Faith, Passions; ex-Victoria, Falcon Crest) - 50
Jennifer Gareis (Donna, The Bold And The Beautiful; ex-Grace, The Young And The Restless) - 41
Nic Robuck (James, One Life To Live)
Sasha Jackson (ex-Kylie, One Tree Hill) - 23
Jack O'Connell (Cook,...
1980: Beverlee McKinsey made her final appearance as Iris on Another World. The show aired its final 90-minute episode that Friday. The following Monday, Iris would be spun off into her own show, Texas.
1981: MTV first aired at 12:01 a.m. General Hospital's Rick Springfield had the No. 1 song in the U.S. that week with "Jessie's Girl," but the new network did not play a Springfield video that first day.
1993: Leonard J. Stabb, Guiding Light's Hart Jessup, was hospitalized in critical condition after a hang-gliding accident.
2005: The BBC World Service launched its first online soap opera, The Flatmates.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Dana Sparks (ex-Grace/Faith, Passions; ex-Victoria, Falcon Crest) - 50
Jennifer Gareis (Donna, The Bold And The Beautiful; ex-Grace, The Young And The Restless) - 41
Nic Robuck (James, One Life To Live)
Sasha Jackson (ex-Kylie, One Tree Hill) - 23
Jack O'Connell (Cook,...
- 8/2/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
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