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The harvest festival, as we are beginning to call our annual day of thanksgiving ... The day, originally set apart by a solemn proclamation by the Governor of the State, is now first desig ...

The idea of thanksgiving days existed long before President Lincoln’s proclamation, O’Brien said ... “We believe that it’s thanksgiving every day,” he said. “We should always be thankful for what we ...

He can also be considered first in Thanksgiving Day. For years historians have given credit to President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation on Oct. 3, 1863, when he called for a national day of ...

At the height of the Civil War, President Lincoln issued a proclamation establishing a national day of Thanksgiving when the nation needed a day of thanks. It soon became an American tradition to ...

The U.S. has recognized Thanksgiving since 1789, when President George Washington issued the first proclamation designating the first national day of thanksgiving. It fell on Thursday, November 26 ...

Thanksgiving Day is always on the fourth Thursday in ... A few decades later, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a ...

On October 3, 1789, George Washington issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, designating “a day of public thanks-giving” to be held on “Thursday the 26th day of November” that year.

Thanksgiving's origins aren't as straightforward as the legends and stories that appear in children's stories or elementary books, but the day offers an opportunity ... first president to issue a ...

Lincoln wasn't the first president to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation — George Washington did so in ... The Pilgrims did celebrate a three-day harvest festival in 1621, experts say, but there's no ...