Today in History: Tuesday, Septermber 3, 2024

Television
CBS premiered the daytime soap “Search for Tomorrow” in 1951, which featured Mary Stuart as housewife Joanne Gardner. The 15-minute broadcast shared a half-hour daytime block with “Guiding Light” for its first 16 years. In 1968, it expanded to a half hour. “Search for Tomorrow” moved to NBC in 1982, where it remained until its cancellation in 1986.

Actress Jeri Ryan officially joined the cast of UPN’s “Star Trek: Voyager” in the series’ fourth season premiere in 1997 as Seven of Nine, the role that gave her most notoriety.

Movies:
Comedy “Calendar Girl” starring “Beverly Hills 90210’s Jason Priestley and Jerry O’Connell opened in theaters in 1993.

Music:
“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by the British pop duo Eurythmics reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1983.

News:
To cope with drastic cuts at the time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1981 made the infamous decision to allow local school districts to count ketchup as a vegetable. Twenty-two days later, President Reagan rescinded that proposal….Napster, the software program that allowed its users to download and exchange music files for free, officially shut itself down in 2002.

Sports:
Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron earned his 6,135th total base to break Stan Musial’s MLB record in an 8-0 home defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1972.

Celebrity Birthdays
Actress Valerie Perrine (“Lenny”) is 81; actor Steve Schirripa (“The Sopranos”) is 66; former MTV VJ Adam Curry is 60; actor Charlie Sheen (“Two and a Half Men”) is 59; former “America’s Funniest Home Videos” host John Fugelsang is 55; actor Nick Wechsler (“Revenge”) is 46; Olympic softball champion Jennie Finch is 44; Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White is 38.

Did You Know?
Actors who appeared on “Search for Tomorrow” at some point over the course of its 35-season run included Kevin Bacon, Angela Bassett, Olympia Dukakis, Sandy Duncan, Morgan Fairchild, Lee Grant, Larry Hagman, Ken Kercheval, Kevin Kline, Don Knotts, Viggo Mortensen and Susan Sarandon.