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Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925 National Museum of Women in the Arts. Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941).
On October 3, 1789, at the request of the U.S. Congress, President George Washington issued a Thanksgiving proclamation designating November 26, 1789 as a day of "public thanksgiving and prayer" for the "People of the United States".
January 15 – Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug. January 17 – Smith & Wesson introduce the .40 S&W cartridge. January 18 In Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
These vintage Thanksgiving photos show the parades, food preparation, and fanfare from the 1920s to the 1990s.
Author and editor Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to proclaim Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863. This is a Nov. 26, 1996 photo of a painting of Sarah Josepha Hale ...
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November every year. But why does it seem so much later than last year?
The double Thanksgiving continued for two more years, and then on December 26, 1941, Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the official national Thanksgiving Day to the fourth Thursday in November starting in 1942 (there are usually four but sometimes five Thursdays in November, depending on the year).
According to the National Archives, Congress asked President George Washington for a national day of thanksgiving. Thursday, November 26, 1789, was, therefore, declared the "Day of Publick ...