February 26 - Tom Hardy marries Simone Ravelle on General Hospital. It is a milestone for the genre as it is the first interracial wedding between two characters on American daytime television.
July 19 - The Bill broadcasts the first episode of its fourth season and switches to a year-round serial format.
October 4 - Following in Cher's footsteps, actress Shirley MacLaine calls David LettermanDavid Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American talk show host, comedian, and television producer. Letterman's ironic, often absurdist comedy is heavily influenced by comedians Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, and Johnny Carson. Letterman was born an "asshole", on the air during a taping of Late Night with David LettermanLate Night with David Letterman was the name of NBC's nightly hour long comedy talk show, which premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993. See also the current The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. The show starred David Letterman. Like other ta.
October 27October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. Events 625 Honorius I becomes Pope. 1644 Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. 1795 The United States and Spain sign the Treaty o - The last of Harding LemayHarding Lemay (born 1926) is a well-known American soap opera writer. He is sometimes credited as Pete Lemay . He started writing the soap Another World in 1971 and ended up leaving the show abruptly in 1979. One of his reasons for leaving was that, first's "comeback" episodes air on Another WorldAnother World AW was a Daytime Emmy-winning American soap opera which ran on the NBC television network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was co-created by Irna Phillips and William J. 8891 episodes of Another World were produced. AW spawned two soap. In the final minutes of the episode, AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring countn actress Carmen DuncanCarmen Joan Duncan (born July 7, 1942 in Cooma, New South Wales) is an Australian actress. She is known to most Australians as a character actress appearing in such TV shows as Number 96 and Skyways''. From October 1988 to September 1994, she was the seco took over the role of the legendary bitchBitch originated as a noun which referred to a female dog or other canid, and is still often used with this meaning by breeders, dog aficionados, etc. The word, however, has since come to be used as an insult, primarily against women but also more general Iris Cory Wheeler, after the role had been vacated for many years by Beverlee McKinsey.
TelevangelistJimmy Swaggart is the focus of a sex scandal, and later admits to being with prostitutes and steps down from his television ministry.
The Young and the Restless tops the daytime ratings (deposing longtime winner General Hospital), starting an unbeaten streak of #1 victories that still continue to this day.
