On this day in 1987, Santa Barbara's Mason (Lane Davies) visited Julia (Nancy Lee Grahn) in the hospital shortly after she had given birth to her daughter, Samantha. Julia had selected Mason to be the father...no strings attached...she just wanted to be a mother and have a child of her own. Despite their arrangement, they fell in love.
In 2006 - Guiding Light's Jonathan (Tom Pelphrey) shocked everyone at Coop and Lizzie's (John Driscoll and Marcy Rylan) wedding by announcing that he was the father of Lizzie's baby. Lizzie's mother, Beth (Beth Chamberlin), had hired someone specifically to keep Jonathan from ruining the wedding, but - so much for that!
In 2009 - Casey Jon Deidrick made his soap opera debut in the role of Chad DiMera on Days of our Lives. The originator of the role, Deidrick decided to leave the show in 2013 and the part would be recast with actor, Billy Flynn. Flynn played the role for nearly 12 years and currently stars as Cane Ashby (under the pseudonym Aristotle Dumas) on The Young and the Restless.