Luke and Laura get married (Nov. 16, 1981)

Nowadays, many of us obsess over tabloid details of real-life nuptials of folks like Tom and Katie or Nicole and Keith. But back in the early 1980s, it was the fictitious wedding of a soap couple that captured America's imagination: When General Hospital's Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) exchanged vows 25 years ago today, 31 million folks tuned in — a record for daytime television.