Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving is an annual holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It originated in three days of prayer and feasting by the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony in 1621, although an earlier thanksgiving was offered in prayer alone by members of the Berkeley plantation near present-day Charles City, Va., on Dec. 4, 1619. The first national Thanksgiving Day, proclaimed by President George Washington, was celebrated on Nov. 26, 1789. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made it an annual holiday to be commemorated on the last Thursday in November. For three years (1939–41), under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the day was celebrated one week earlier, but thereafter, by act of Congress, it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
In Canada, Thanksgiving, first observed in November 1879, is officially celebrated on the second Monday in October.
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