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Eric Stonestreet -- Cam from "Modern Family" -- celebrates birthday number 45 today. He'll probably be the clown at his party.
Macy Gray turns 49 today in Earth years today. Today is a national holiday on her home planet.
Adam Sandler celebrates birthday turns the big 5-0 today. One year for every movie he's made. His movies have been major supporters of the direct-to-video industry.
Hugh Grant turns 56 today. He's always a perfect English gentleman, except when he's caught. Okay, ladies, is he still hot... or has he cooled down to warm?
Former Washington Redskins quarterback and football announcer Joe Theismann turns 67 today. He gave us some of the greatest broken leg footage of all time.
National Teddy Bear Day -- The teddy bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt, after a 1902 incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi. The president found a wounded bear and ordered it killed to put it out of its misery. After reading the story, New York toy store owner Morris Mitchtom got Roosevelt's permission to call his new stuffed animal a teddy bear, and the name stuck. Mitchton went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
People who collect teddy bears are called arctophiles.
At the height of the toy's early popularity, a priest in Michigan publicly denounced it as an enemy of the American family. He claimed that the stuffed toy would take over the mother's nurturing role and would eventually lead to racial suicide.
Bears from the German toy maker Steiff are among the world's most prized collectibles. In 2000, one Steiff bear made in 1904 was priced at almost $18,000, according to one collectibles website.
Macy Gray turns 49 today in Earth years today. Today is a national holiday on her home planet.
Adam Sandler celebrates birthday turns the big 5-0 today. One year for every movie he's made. His movies have been major supporters of the direct-to-video industry.
Hugh Grant turns 56 today. He's always a perfect English gentleman, except when he's caught. Okay, ladies, is he still hot... or has he cooled down to warm?
Former Washington Redskins quarterback and football announcer Joe Theismann turns 67 today. He gave us some of the greatest broken leg footage of all time.
National Teddy Bear Day -- The teddy bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt, after a 1902 incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi. The president found a wounded bear and ordered it killed to put it out of its misery. After reading the story, New York toy store owner Morris Mitchtom got Roosevelt's permission to call his new stuffed animal a teddy bear, and the name stuck. Mitchton went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
People who collect teddy bears are called arctophiles.
At the height of the toy's early popularity, a priest in Michigan publicly denounced it as an enemy of the American family. He claimed that the stuffed toy would take over the mother's nurturing role and would eventually lead to racial suicide.
Bears from the German toy maker Steiff are among the world's most prized collectibles. In 2000, one Steiff bear made in 1904 was priced at almost $18,000, according to one collectibles website.
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