Five Things That Happened On January 10 In Soap History

In 1986, Bo Buchanan (Robert S. Woods) and Didi O'Neill (Barbara Treutelaar) wed on One Life To Live. Didi, Bo's second wife, was blind at the time of their marriage, which took place at St. Barnabas Church; she had lost her eyesight in an explosion at the Lord-Manning plant. The morning after they tied the knot, Bo arranged for her to undergo surgery that restored her ability to see. Alas, Didi was tragically killed in 1988 via electrocution.

In 2005, General Hospital’s Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) learned that her husband, Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst), had known all along about his half brother, Sonny Corinthos, being the father of her daughter, Kristina. Livid, Alexis angrily accused Ric of using her as part of his quest for revenge against Sonny by deliberately becoming the stepfather to his niece.

In 2006, Bo and Hope Brady (Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso) said good-bye to their critically injured son, Zack, on Days of Our Lives. The child had been struck by a car on New Year's Eve — one driven recklessly by his half sister, Chelsea, Bo's daughter by Billie. When Bo and Hope were forced to make the painful decision to take him off life support, his liver was able to be donated to his cousin, Claire Brady, who was in need of a transplant.

In 2008, As the World Turns’s Paul Ryan (Roger Howarth) told Rosanna Cabot (Cady McClain) he was leaving her for Meg Snyder after he busted Rosanna for tampering with Meg’s paternity test results to make it appear as though Meg was pregnant by Craig Montgomery. In actuality, the baby was Paul's, but being led to believe that the child was Craig's had prompted Paul to reject Meg and hastily tie the knot with Rosanna.

In 2024, General Hospital aired the first of a two-episode memorial to the beloved character of Bobbie Spencer and her portrayer, Jacklyn Zeman, who died in 2023 at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer. The shows featured the short-term comebacks of Ryan Carnes as Bobbie's son, Lucas, as well as Brighton Hertford, who had played Bobbie's late daughter, BJ Jones, as a child; Hertford returned to play a spirit version of BJ who called herself "Angela Brighton." At Bobbie's poignant funeral, she was eulogized by characters like her daughter, Carly (Laura Wright), and her former sister-in-law, Laura.