General Hospital’s Willow Learned She Was Pregnant And Other Events From June 29 In Soap History

In 1956, Guiding Light aired its final radio episode. The venerable serial had begun broadcasting on radio on January 25, 1937, and when it began airing on television on June 30, 1952, the cast performed the episode twice each day, once for each medium, for a four-year period until the radio broadcast ceased.

In 1984, Arleen Sorkin made her Days of Our Lives debut as the delightfully quirky Calliope Jones, whose pairing with John de Lancie's Eugene Bradford captivated fans. Sorkin earned two Daytime Emmy nominations as Outstanding Supporting Actress for the role and took home a whopping four Soap Opera Digest Awards: Outstanding New Actress in a Daytime Serial in 1985, Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Daytime Serial in 1985, Outstanding Comic Relief Role on a Daytime Serial in 1986, and Outstanding Comic Performance by an Actress: Daytime in 1988. The actress left the show in 1990, but returned for visits in 1992, 2006 and 2010. Sorkin passed away on August 24, 2023.

In 1990, DAYS’s Jennifer (Melissa Reeves) lost her virginity to Jack (Matthew Ashford). This milestone moment for the burgeoning supercouple took place after the ship they were aboard, The Loretta, began sinking and they were forced to jump overboard. They found shelter in a cave, where they finally gave in to their feelings for one another. .

In 2012, Paul (Doug Davidson) fatally shot his son, Ricky (Peter Porte), on Young and Restless after finding Ricky about to murder Eden Baldwin.

In 2022, an ailing Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) collapsed in Sonny's (Maurice Benard) arms as a horrified Sasha and Nina looked on at the Metro Court pool. When Willow regained consciousness, Dr. Obrecht advised that she go to the hospital to get checked out. Epiphany and TJ examined her, and TJ was particularly concerned because he knew that Willow had had at least one other fainting spell. Michael rushed to his wife's side, and she insisted that she was fine. TJ ran some tests on Willow and when he reported the results to her, she was shocked — TJ informed her that she was pregnant (with her daughter Amelia).