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Thanksgiving (United States) Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. [2] It is sometimes called American Thanksgiving (outside the United States) to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States. At the request of Congress, President George Washington declared Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. [1] A National Proclamation of Thanksgiving had been issued by the Continental Congress in ...
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.
The next official “day of thanksgiving” was after settlers massacred over 400 Pequot men, women, and children. Governor Bradford’s decreed, “For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ...
After all, in President George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation, ... 1863, requesting the last Thursday in November to be a day of Thanksgiving announced to the whole country. In ...
February 15: Susan B. Anthony Day. March 10: Harriet Tubman Day. March 19: National Day of Honor [5] March 25: Greek Independence Day [6] March 29: National Vietnam War Veterans Day [7][8] March 31: Cesar Chavez Day [9] March 31: Transgender Day of Visibility [10] April 6: National Tartan Day.
List of presidential proclamations by George W. Bush. This is a list of presidential proclamations by George W. Bush, the president of the United States from 2001 to 2009, which is a subset of the longer list of executive actions by George W. Bush.
Juneteenth. Independence Day. Labor Day. Columbus Day. Veterans Day. Thanksgiving Day. Christmas Day. Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays. On these days non-essential U.S. federal government offices are closed and federal employees are paid for the day off.