2002 Mary Stuart, long-time soap star, Search for Tomorrow, dies at 76
1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1997 "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1997 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1995 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1995 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1993 Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
1993 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run
1991 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1988 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46
1987 Soap "Bold and Beautiful" premieres
1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1986 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young and Restless wins
1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
1984 TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
1984 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
1982 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981 Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC
1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1978 "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1973 Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
1973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72
1973 Soap "Young and Restless" premieres
1973 After a 5 year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends
1972 Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
1971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
1969 "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1966 Thorsten Kaye, soap actor, Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers
1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1960 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series
1960 Peter Virgile, soap actor, Hostage, Popeye Doyle
1958 TV soap "Young Dr. Malone" debuts
1956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV
1955 Rebecca Balding, Little Rock, Arkansas, actress, Carla-Lou Grant, Soap
1954 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
1952 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1951 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
1949 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
1948 Sal Viscuso, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Soap, Montefuscos
1947 Billy Crystal, born in Long Beach, New York, comedian, Soap, SNL, City Slickers
1947 1st broadcast of 1st U.S. TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1946 Bob Seagren, Pomona California, actor, Soap, /pole vaulter, Olympics gold 68
1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1944 Matthew Cowles, soap actor, Eban Japes-Loving, Billy-All My Children
1944 Jennifer Salt, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Sisters, Soap, Wedding Party
1941 Julio B. Euson, Aruban singer, I Use the Soap
1940 German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
1937 1st broadcast of Soap Opera "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
1935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, Gen Hospital
1934 Katherine Helmond, actress, Soap, Coach
1932 Richard Mulligan, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus
1929 John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate
1929 Katherine Helmond, born in Galveston, Texas, actress, Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss
1927 Robert Guillaume, [Williams], born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Benson, Soap
1927 William J. Bell, born in Chicago, Illinois, soap opera creator, Young and Restless
1901 Irna Phillips, born in Chicago, created 6 soap operas, Guiding Light
1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
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