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Holidays

Thanksgiving

History of Thanksgiving
Date Event
1621 First Thanksgiving, Plymouth Colony.
1789 George Washington becomes the first President to declare Thanksgiving.
1863 Abraham Lincoln declares Thanksgiving the last Thursday in November
1939-1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November.
1941 Congress declares Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November.
Trivia

The first child born in the American colonies was Virginia Dare in 1587.
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