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‘I gave up Thanksgiving, I cancelled’
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of every November, based on an act of Congress in 1941. Why is Thanksgiving so late this year? Congress dictates it, but it wasn't always that way
Despite being the queen of Thanksgiving, Martha Stewart told Kelly Clarkson she canceled her Thanksgiving dinner because nine of her guests backed out.
The cookbook author went on to explain that she's already had her fill of turkey this holiday season, sharing, "I've also cooked 14 turkeys already for my TV show, and I still have to [cook] one ...
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November every year. But why does it seem so much later than last year?
In August 1939, amid the Great Depression, Fred Lazarus Jr., head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's), lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier, to the second to last Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday of November, to make the Christmas shopping season last longer and help boost retail sales.
Thanksgiving (French: l'Action de grâce), occurring on the second Monday in October, is an annual Canadian holiday to give thanks at the close of the harvest season. Although the original act of Parliament references God and the holiday is celebrated in churches, the holiday is mostly celebrated in a secular manner.
A Nov. 28 Thanksgiving happens roughly every five to six years, meaning that the next time we'll see a Thanksgiving on Nov. 28 will be in 2030 (another year when Halloween is on a Thursday and Nov ...