Five Things That Happened On July 20 In Soap History

In 1993, Mary Beth Evans — already a daytime superstar courtesy of her 1986-92 run as Kayla Brady Johnson on Days of Our Lives, a role she has since returned to — made her General Hospital debut as Katherine Bell. She originally went by the name Katherine Crawford and introduced herself to Scotty Baldwin (Kin Shriner) as an old friend of his late wife, Dominique Stanton Baldwin. She tried to con him into giving her money (a scheme she was executing with the help of her secret lover, Damian Smith). When Scott discovered Katherine had been playing him, he dumped her. Katherine went on to marry Ned Ashton, and had relationships with Mac Scorpio, Stefan Cassadine and Nikolas Cassadine before she was murdered by Helena Cassadine in 1999.