Five Things That Happened On May 5 In Soap History

In 1994, future Daytime Emmy winner Shemar Moore made his Young and Restless debut as Malcolm Winters. The actor recalled in a 2019 interview with Soap Opera Digest, "My first audition was on April 4, 1994 and then I came back two days later to audition with Kristoff [St. John, who played Malcolm's brother, Neil]. There were six of us on April 6 auditioning for the part of Malcolm Winters. We were supposed to do two scenes with Kristoff and one scene with Victoria Rowell [ex-Drucilla]. At the time of the audition, she was downstairs on set doing a scene and I guess the scenes were taking longer or what have you, so she never made it upstairs. I ended up doing two scenes with Kristoff." Shortly thereafter, he learned that the role was his, and he began taping on April 12, 1994.

In 2006, Marcie Walsh (Kathy Brier) and Michael McBain (Nathaniel Marston) tied the knot on One Life To Live. The ceremony took place at St. Jude's Church in the midst of a storm, which knocked out the electricity. The couple's guests lit candles, illuminating the bride and groom as they were pronounced man and wife.

In 2010 on General Hospital, Lulu Spencer (Julie Marie Berman) and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) made love for the first time. The duo's love story continued to blossom, and they were married by the end of 2011. Not long after that, they became parents to their son, Rocco.

In 2015 on General Hospital, the Nurses' Ball was underway and Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) was reeling from the news she had just received from Nikolas Cassadine — "Jake Doe," the man she had fallen for, was actually Jason Morgan, her ex-lover and Sam McCall's presumed-dead husband. (Of course, per a later rewrite, the man known as "Jake" turned out to actually be Jason's surprise twin, Drew Cain.) Elizabeth grabbed the microphone from emcee Lucy Coe and prepared to announce "Jake's" true identity to the assembled guests. But as a flood of memories of her relationship with Jason washed over her, Liz made the decision not to reveal that Jason was alive, and instead delivered a speech about Robin's brave battle with HIV.

In 2017 on Bold and Beautiful, Sally Spectra (Courtney Hope) was facing a judge after confessing to grand larceny and industrial espionage — and she was also facing a 15-year prison sentence. Sally was stunned when Thomas Forrester (Pierson Fodé) came to her defense to the judge, despite how her actions had negatively affected his family's company, Forrester Creations. Moved, she told Thomas she loved him and kissed him tenderly.