Five Things That Happened On May 25 In Soap History

In 1994, three One Life To Live stars — Susan Haskell (Marty Saybrooke), Roger Howarth (Todd Manning) and Hillary B. Smith (Nora Gannon) — picked up Daytime Emmys, the first time the show achieved such a feat. The performers, all first-time winners, were honored for their work in the same storyline, the landmark tale of Marty's gang rape at the fraternity house, of which Todd was the ringleader. Nora was the attorney who defended the rapists, and deliberately threw the trial when she realized the defendants were guilty.

In 2004, Days of Our Lives's Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall, r.) and Alice Horton (Frances Reid) were found alive on the island of Melaswen ("New Salem" spelled backwards). Both characters had been killed off as part of the Salem Stalker storyline that seemingly involved the demises of many beloved Salem residents — but in the end, all of them were proven to be very much alive.

In 2020, Eric Brady (Greg Vaughan) and Nicole Walker (Arianne Zucker) got engaged on Days of Our Lives. "I know that this is not the first time that I've asked you, but I'm hoping it's the last," Eric told his beloved. "Nicole Walker, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" Nicole happily accepted, and gushed over the beautiful ring he slipped on her finger. "I can't believe this is happening," she beamed.

In 2011 on Bold and Beautiful, Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that her mother, Taylor (Hunter Tylo), was going to make a full recovery after consuming the hallucinogenic berries that her son, Thomas, had brought home from the island on which he had been trapped with Taylor's longtime romantic rival, Brooke Logan.

In 2021, Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) and Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) shared their first kiss on General Hospital after she opened up to him about learning that she carried the genetic marker for Huntington's disease.