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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traitional North American holiday, which is a form of harvest festival. First celebrated in what would become Canada in the late 1500s, Thanksgiving was later also celebrated in what would become the United States in the early 1600s. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

Trivia about thanksgiving

  • This day of prayer & celebration was first decreed by Gov. William Bradford inn 1621
  • November 16, 1939:Mom almost forgot to buy a turkey yesterday, she forgot FDR moved this holiday up a week
  • By law, it's the fourth Thursday in November
  • Canadians observe it the second Monday in October; we celebrate it on a Thursday in November
  • On Nov. 26, 1789 this was celebrated as a national holiday for the first time
  • Washington proclaimed Nov. 26, 1789 this first national holiday
  • Emily's murder trial began on October 9, 2000, this holiday in Canada
  • The FDA seized over 254,000 lbs. of cranberries contaminated by pesticides just before this holiday
  • Colonists got their first taste of popcorn at a dinner celebrating this holiday in 1621
  • Observance at which English colonists 1st ate popcorn
  • In 1621 Mass. Gov. William Bradford declared a day of prayer, feasting & rejoicing which became this holiday
  • In 1789 a general proclamation was issued naming November 26 a day of national this
  • The Wampanoag tribe helped out with the first of these celebrations in autumn 1621
  • Eel & watercress were on the menu of the first celebration of this
  • An ancient symbol of abundance, the cornucopia is often attached to this American holiday
  • From 1939 to 1941 it was celebrated on the second to last Thursday in November
  • Paula Deen puts a twist on tradition--instead of pumpkin pie, it's pumpkin gooey butter cakes for this holiday
  • It began in America in 1621 as an adaptation of the British Lammas, or "Loaf Mass" Day
  • Graceland's Christmas lights go on the Friday after this holiday & stay up through Elvis' birthday festivities in Jan.
  • Sarah Josepha Hale wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" & advocated making this November day a national holiday
  • O. Henry called it the most “purely American” holiday
  • In 1939 FDR moved this holiday one week earlier in an attempt to please the retail industry
  • Get away to Holiday World in Indiana to ride the Gobbler Getaway in the area named for this holiday
  • Sukkot, a Jewish festival, began as a harvest celebration & was a model for this centuries-old American holiday
  • The British don't celebrate this U.S. holiday honoring a 1621 event, but they do have something called St. Swithin's Day
  • Canada's version of this holiday is the 2nd Monday in October; the U.S. usually celebrates it 46 days later

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