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"Thanksgiving Day Parade", a song by Dan Bern on his album New American Language (2001). "Thanksgiving Day", a song by Ray Davies on his album Other People's Lives (2006). "The Thanksgiving Song" (2020), written and performed by Ben Rector was the opening track from his holiday album A Ben Rector Christmas.
Several presidents opposed days of national thanksgiving, with Thomas Jefferson openly denouncing such a proclamation. [19] That was seen as ironic because Jefferson had proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving while he was the governor of Virginia. By 1855, 16 states celebrated Thanksgiving (14 on the fourth Thursday of November, and two on the third).
In the West Indian island of Grenada, in the Caribbean, there is a national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day which is celebrated on October 25. Even though it bears the same name, and is celebrated at roughly the same time as the American and Canadian versions of Thanksgiving, this holiday is unrelated to either of those celebrations.
When did Thanksgiving become a national holiday? More than 160 years after the 1621 feast, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving.
A few days later, the president issued a proclamation that Thursday, November 26, 1789, would be a day of public thanksgiving. This was the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated under the new ...
President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863 during the Civil War. In addition, President Lincoln proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 26, 1863, as Thanksgiving, the almanac said.
George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday in 1789. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln codified the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving, to be commemorated each year. In keeping with tradition, every President had declared a general day of thanksgiving to be observed on the last Thursday in November.
To end the confusion, Congress passed a joint resolution, signed by Roosevelt on Dec. 26, 1941, that established Thanksgiving as a federal holiday held on the fourth Thursday of November.