Thursday, November 20, 2014

thanksgiving



The "last Thursday of November" was the rule from 1863 to 1939
except in 1865, when President Andrew Johnson
proclaimed the first Thursday in December Thanksgiving Day
in 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant chose November 18,
which was the third Thursday in November
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
moved the date to November 23
the next-to-last Thursday of the month,
in order to lengthen the holiday shopping season  
about half of the states used this new date,
others kept Thanksgiving on the last Thursday
or celebrated it twice.
 In December 1941, President Roosevelt  
designated the fourth Thursday in November
as Thanksgiving
The date has not changed since that time.

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