A little information about Thanksgiving Day:
This annual holiday is celebrated in the U.S. on the 4th Thursday in November.
The Pilgrims celebrated the 1st Thanksgiving in 1621 with 3 days of feasting and celebrating for their 1st harvest and surviving the 1st Massachusetts winter.
President George Washington proclaimed the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789.
In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an annual holiday in order to draw the nation together in one day to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.
Thanksgiving Day was moved to the 3rd Thursday in November for 3 years, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1939 to 1941, but was returned to the 4th Thursday by Congress in 1941.
In Canada Thanksgiving Day is the 2nd Monday in October. Hmm, I wonder if they have to have turkey too.
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