Today is National American Teddy Bear Day - 4 Facts!

• The name comes from a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902.
• Clifford Berryman's cartoon of it ran in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.
• Morris Michtom saw the cartoon and founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
• Steiff showed its bear at the Leipzig Toy Fair in March 1903, and a buyer ordered 3,000 for the United States.

(Sources: Wikipedia, Theodore Roosevelt Center)