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August 25, 20101918 - Leonard Bernstein
1917 - Mel Ferrer
1930 - Sir Sean Connery
1938 - Frederick Forsyth
1942 - Howard Jacobson
1947 - Ann Archer
1949 - Martin Amis
1954 - Elvis Costello
1956 - Matt Aitken
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus
1970 - Claudia Schiffer
Toys that were like yo-yos had been around for hundreds of years, but a man named Pedro Flores was responsible for manufacturing the first modern yo-yo in 1928. Originally from the Phillipines, Mr. Flores based his design on a game that he remembered as a child. By 1929 his American factory was churning out 300,000 yo-yos a day! So while he never claimed to be its inventor, Pedro Flores was certainly its biggest popularizer.
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