By Cassie Lee

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Robin Victory in Europe Strasser (born May 7, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.

Strasser’s middle name is a tribute to her being born the day Germany surrendered in World War II. She was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx and raised in Manhattan by Martin and Anne Strasser, both Jewish. After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts, on full scholarship, she attended the Yale University School of Drama. She began acting in the early 1960s. Strasser sharpened her acting abilities in theatre, acting on Broadway, where she appeared in The Shadow Box and Chapter Two. Early in her stage career she met her first husband, Laurence Luckinbill; they were married in 1965 and divorced in 1976. They have two sons, Nicholas and Ben. Strasser was also married to Richard Hogan from August 27, 1983, until 1985.

Strasser was offered the role of Cathy Craig on One Life to Live, but ended up joining the show as Dorian Lord in 1979, when Claire Malis left the role. Strasser had four stints as Dorian, leaving the show in 1987 and returning to play Dorian again from 1993 to 2000, 2003 to August 25, 2011, and then again in the online revival of the series in 2013. From 2001 to 2002, she appeared as 300-year-old witch Hecuba on the NBC serial Passions. In 2019 she played Vivian Alamain on Days of Our Lives for 15 episodes.

Strasser won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 1982 for her portrayal of Dorian, and was also nominated for the award in 1981, 1983, and 1985. Strasser has been nominated for Soap Opera Digest Awards for Dorian in various categories in 1986, 1988, 1994, 1995 and 2005, winning in 1996 (“Outstanding Lead Actress” for Dorian) and 2001 (“Outstanding Female Scene Stealer” for Hecuba).

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HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY

In 1718, the French established the city of New Orleans on land inhabited by the Chitimacha tribe. The actual date of the city’s founding is unknown, but the anniversary is traditionally observed May 7.

In 1789, the first U.S. presidential inaugural ball, celebrating the inauguration of George Washington, was conducted in New York City.

In 1824, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was performed for the first time.

In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

In 1945, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany from Gen. Alfred Jodl.

In 1954, rebel Viet Minh army forces overran the French stronghold of Dien Bien Phu, bringing about the end of French control in Indochina and creating the division of Vietnam.

In 2000, Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia’s second president in the first democratic transfer of executive power in the nation’s 1,000-year history.

In 2007, officials reported no survivors in the crash of a Kenyan Airlines plane that went down in a Cameroon mangrove swamp with 114 people aboard.

In 2014, a Thai court, in an abuse-of-power ruling, removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office.

In 2017, France elected Emmanuel Macron, of La République En Marche! Party, president over Marine Le Pen of the National Front.

In 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to a controversial fifth term in office despite much of the Western world boycotting the ceremony because of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

writer Peter Carey in 1943 (age 82)

actor Robin Strasser in 1945 (age 80)

musician Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead) in 1946 (age 79)

TV journalist Tim Russert in 1950

filmmaker Amy Heckerling in 1954 (age 71)

actor Michael E. Knight in 1959 (age 66)

musician Eagle-Eye Cherry in 1968 (age 57)

actor Breckin Meyer in 1974 (age 51)

musician J Balvin in 1985 (age 40)

musician Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) in 1986 (age 39)

musician Russell Dickerson in 1987 (age 38)

comedian/actor Aidy Bryant in 1987 (age 38)

actor Maya Erskine in 1987 (age 38)

actor Alexander Ludwig in 1992 (age 33)

actor Dylan Gelula in 1994 (age 31)

musician Rico Nasty in 1997 (age 28)

musician Minji (NewJeans) in 2004 (age 21)

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