National cheesesteak day. Pop culture from 2016. Soldier falls 18,000 feet and lives, Elvis goes into the army, Phillipines freed-sort of. Todays birthdays - Norman Fell, Steve McQueen, R. Lee Ermey, Ncik Lower, Louie Anderson, Robert Carradine, Kelly LeBrock, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nena, Jim Parsons, Alyson Hannigan, Jessica Chastain. Jules Verne died.