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   Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. [2] It is sometimes called American Thanksgiving (outside the United States) to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.

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   Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil, Germany and the Philippines.

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   In the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is a four-day holiday over a weekend, starting on Thanksgiving Thursday and ending on Sunday. Families and friends usually eat a special meal together (usually with a turkey as the main dish).

4. www.britannica.com › topic › Thanksgiving-DayThanksgiving Day | Meaning, History, & Facts | Britannica

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   May 27, 2024 · In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, as specified in a joint resolution passed by Congress in 1941 and a proclamation issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.

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5. www.history.com › topics › thanksgivingThanksgiving 2024 - Tradition, Origins & Meaning | HISTORY

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   Oct 27, 2009 · Learn about the origins and meaning of Thanksgiving, a national holiday in the United States that dates back to 1621. Explore the first feast at Plymouth, the proclamations of presidents, and the controversies over the Native American perspective.

6. www.history.com › news › thanksgiving-timelineThanksgiving: A Timeline of the Holiday | HISTORY

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   Nov 21, 2019 · From the earliest fall feasts to the first Thanksgiving football game to the Macy's Day parade, here's the full background on how the U.S. holiday evolved to the tradition it is today.

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   Why is Thanksgiving a national holiday?

   • Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists ( Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.

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   Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?

   • Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil, Germany and the Philippines. It is also observed in the Dutch town of Leiden and the Australian territory of Norfolk Island.

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   Is Thanksgiving a Canadian holiday?

   • Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It is sometimes called American Thanksgiving (outside the United States) to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.

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   When did Thanksgiving become a federal holiday?

   • On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly appointed federal holiday in Washington, D.C. On January 6, 1885, an act by Congress made Thanksgiving, and other federal holidays, a paid holiday for all federal workers throughout the United States.

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   When was Thanksgiving Day first celebrated?

   • For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November. But the holiday is not without controversy.

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   When is Thanksgiving in the United States?

   • Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863. Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.

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   Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It is sometimes called American Thanksgiving (outside the United States) to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.